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Rabbi Rachel Saphire (she/her)
Rabbi
Reform
www.tbewellesley.org
[email protected]
Temple Beth Elohim 10 Bethel Road
Wellesley, Massachusetts 2494
United States

About

I am a Reform rabbi based at Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley, MA. I am an LGBTQ+ rabbi, leading my congregation in pastoral care, inclusion and welcome. I help to lead our LGBTQ+ affinity group, advise our institution on policies, officiate lifecycle events of all kinds and regularly preach, plan speakers and programs on LGBTQ+ themes and topics. I welcome the opportunity to serve all!

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
  • 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 "I'm Still Learning" to the following

  • Trained on LGBTQ+ identities within past five years
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