Stefano Iacono

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Cantor Stefano Iacono (he/him/his)

Associate Cantor

Reform

rodephsholom.org

[email protected]

Congregation Rodeph Sholom
New York City, New York
United States

About

I came to the cantorate with a love of political and social theory. After majoring in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, I have dedicated most of my spiritual life to unearthing "missed" opportunities of queerness in our tradition, especially in the Torah.

I am working on a project tracing relational dynamics in scripture (i.e. between kings and their subjects, prophets and "am Yisrael", etc.) through the lens of queer experience. Ancient queers existed, but how were they encoded?

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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
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

Experience in end-of-life care for LGBTQ+ individuals

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