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Rabbi Micah Buck (he/him and they/them)
Director of Education & Training
Not Applicable
St. Louis, Missouri 63130
United States

About

Rabbi Micah Buck (he/they) is the Director of Education & Training at Keshet. He believes that all Jewish communities can be places of full belonging for LGBTQ+ Jews and our families, and works to offer Jewish communities the knowledge, tools, and confidence to fully live into that vision. As a Queer and Trans person, they are committed to a Jewish world that centers and celebrates Queer and Trans voices. Rabbi Micah has rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and has worked as an educator, chaplain, and advocate. They live in St. Louis, MO, and are an exuberant teacher, photographer, baker, and parent.

Listing Details

Clergy answered "Yes" to the following

  • Trained on LGBTQ+ identities within past five years
  • Experience officiating conversions for transgender and nonbinary individuals with a sensitivity to the wide range of relationships to gender and embodiment that transgender and nonbinary individuals may have
  • Experience in end-of-life care for LGBTQ+ individuals
  • Experience officiating gender-expansive b-mitzvah
  • Familiar with gender-expansive Hebrew liturgical and linguistic options
  • Approaches the presence of LGBTQ+ people as the norm rather than an exception in Jewish communal life
  • Experience celebrating LGBTQ+ specific life-cycle rituals such as coming out and renaming
  • Person-centered and LGBTQ+ positive approach to Jewish law and tradition
  • Comfortable consistently using they/them pronouns and neopronouns
  • Speaks or writes regularly on LGBTQ+ themes
  • Experience in pastoral/spiritual care of LGBTQ+ individuals
  • Experience officiating LGBTQ+ weddings