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Rabbi Andy Gordon (He/him)
Rabbi
Reform

About

Rabbi Andy Gordon (he/him) is the spiritual leader of Bolton Street Synagogue, a Reform congregation in Baltimore, MD. As a proud gay Jewish man, it has been my pleasure and honor to create a community of belonging for so many LGBTQ+ individuals in our Jewish community. It is imperative to me that our Jewish community create a space where all people can be themselves and be welcomed for who they are and who they love.

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