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Rabbi Marina Yergin (she/her/hers)
Associate Rabbi
Reform
Temple Beth-El
San Antonio, Texas 78212
United States

About

I'm a Reform rabbi in San Antonio, Texas. I have officiated many LGBTQ+ weddings and conversions. I am always open for conversations and requests for discussions.

I put currently learning for many of the answers because I have not had the opportunity to experience some of these things, but am aware and have plans for how to do them (i.e. LGBTQ+ end of life care, I have not had specific experience around taharah for the LGBTQ+ community, but am in constant communication with our Chevra Kaddisha).

Listing Details

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

  • Trained on LGBTQ+ identities within past five years
  • Experience in end-of-life care for LGBTQ+ individuals
  • Experience officiating gender-expansive b-mitzvah
  • Familiar with gender-expansive Hebrew liturgical and linguistic options