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Rabbi Miriam Geronimus (she/her)
Rabbi
Reconstructionist
Cleveland Jewish Collective
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
United States

About

I am a queer Ashkenazi Jew who grew up in an interfaith Secular Humanistic Jewish home in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I have been interested in co-creating inclusive community where we can show up as our full vulnerable selves and wrestle with what it means to be human since I was in college, when I created LGBTQ*J, a student group for queer Jews navigating the intersection of their identities. As someone who has been on a long journey of rediscovery, I particularly delight in helping people explore Jewish traditions and practices in ways that feel meaningful and supportive to their lives.

My undergraduate degree is in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and ecology continues to inform how I understand the world and is an important part of my spirituality and political work. During college, I also spent three summers studying Yiddish language, history, and culture at YIVO, the Yiddish Book Center, and the Vilnius Yiddish Institute, and I am deeply committed to diasporic Jewish cultures and practices.

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