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Rabbi Shoshanah Tornberg (she/her)
Rabbi
All Affiliations Served
Congregation Keneseth Israel Chew Street
Allentown, Pennsylvania
United States

About

I have been a rabbi since 2006, serving a wide range of community members. My involvement with Keshet and the centering of queer life in Jewish communal settings predated my attendance at rabbinical school. I am queer, expansive in my sense of rituals, the parent and partner of queer folx, and a leader in my local community on LGBTQIAN+ inclusion.

I care deeply about making our Jewish spaces and people not just aware of queer experiences, but also creating spaces in which queer folx envision and lead what community looks like from the inside.

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
  • 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 "No" to the following

  • Trained on LGBTQ+ identities within past five years

Clergy answered "I'm Still Learning" to the following

  • Experience in end-of-life care for LGBTQ+ individuals
  • Experience officiating gender-expansive b-mitzvah