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Rabbi Ken Richmond (he / him)

co-Senior Rabbi, Cantor

Conservative

tiofnatick.org

[email protected]

508-650-3521

Temple Israel of Natick 145 Hartford St
Natick, Massachusetts 1760
United States

About

I am Co-Senior Rabbi and longtime Cantor at Temple Israel of Natick. I was one of the student leaders of the LGBTQ+ rights movement during my years at the Jewish Theological Seminary and attended Rabbinical School at Hebrew College. I have family members, friends, colleagues, and congregants who identify in a variety of ways as LGBTQ+. I and my congregation have benefited over the years from Keshet training and I speak regularly from the pulpit on LGBTQ+ themes. I am a klezmer fiddler, an avid Yiddishist, and enjoy hiking.

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Clergy answered "Yes" to the following

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

Clergy answered "No" to the following

Trained on LGBTQ+ identities within past five years

Clergy answered "I'm Still Learning" to the following

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

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