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Rabbi Lonnie Kleinman (she/they)
Associate Director of Education and Training
Reconstructionist
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
United States

About

I am a queer, agender Reconstructionist rabbi. I am a trained spiritual director, ritualist, and death educator, among other things. I grew up in the Sonoran desert of the Southwest and am currently based in Philadelphia. I love lifecycle officiation and ritual creation, especially for my queer and tran siblings. I have served a variety of communities in my time in Philadelphia- I was a Student Rabbi at Abramson Senior Care, Arcadia University, The Shalom Center, POWER, Lankenau Medical Center, and the University of Pennsylvania Hillel. In addition, I served as a chaplain with the Philadelphia Movement Chaplaincy Network and at the Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania.

I love learning with and alongside folks with all sorts of questions about Judaism! Feel free to be in touch with specific requests and ideas.

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