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Rabbi Rachel Gurevitz (she/her)
Senior Rabbi
Reform
508-366-7191
Congregation B'nai Shalom 117 E. Main St
Westborough, Massachusetts 1581
United States

About

I am a congregational rabbi who has served my entire career as an out lesbian and have been with my wife for the past 25 years (married 15). I have a particular interest in Jewish spirituality and lead many different kinds of Shabbat service, including those which are more meditative. I am also passionate about interfaith relations and co-founded Central MA Connections in Faith, bringing local people together to learn about each other.

I am also a whiskey educator, and can lead workshops and tastings to educate on whiskies from around the world, and have also researched and teach on "Jewish history through a bourbon glass".

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