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Rabbi Jeremy Kridel (he/they)

Rabbi and Director of the Jewish Cultural School Program

Secular/Secular Humanist

http://www.machar.org

[email protected]

3017089675

Machar - The Secular Humanistic Jewish Congregation of Greater Washington
District of Columbia 20015
United States

About

I'm ordained as a rabbi within Humanistic Judaism, and -- as is true with my predecessors in my congregation -- am myself a member of the LGBTQ+ community. I prioritize making myself available to and working with and for LGBTQ+ individuals and families. Because my congregation doesn't meet for services on a particularly frequent basis, I don't have regular opportunity to teach/preach on LGBTQ+-related topics -- but I also came out to the congregation during Yom Kippur services and write occasionally in our congregation newsletter. I've participated in a number of life-cycle events for LGBTQ+ community members, and routinely use guidance from the Non-Binary Hebrew Project in rituals and liturgy.

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 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
Person-centered and LGBTQ+ positive approach to Jewish law and tradition
Comfortable consistently using they/them pronouns and neopronouns
Experience in pastoral/spiritual care of LGBTQ+ individuals
Experience officiating LGBTQ+ weddings

Clergy answered "No" to the following

Experience in end-of-life care for LGBTQ+ individuals
Experience celebrating LGBTQ+ specific life-cycle rituals such as coming out and renaming

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

Speaks or writes regularly on LGBTQ+ themes

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1860 Washington St.
Newton, MA 02466
Phone: 617.524.9227

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