Paula Pepperstone

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Cantor Paula Pepperstone (she/her)

cantor and education director

Conservative

[email protected]

315-427-4737

Wichita, Kansas
United States

About

I've been an ally for 35 years, and have learned more in the last 10 years. Two of my kids are queer, and I was an active member of the Conservative/Masorti Movement's Social Justice Commission's LGBTQ+ subcommittee from 2022-25. I initiated Pride Shabbat at our congregation, and co-ran our Pride Seder with the local Reform rabbi. I was thrilled to officiate at my first gay wedding a few years ago.

Whatever I don't know yet, I'm happy to learn.

Listing Details

Clergy answered "Yes" to the following

Trained on LGBTQ+ identities within past five years
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
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

Experience in end-of-life care for LGBTQ+ individuals
Experience officiating gender-expansive b-mitzvah
Experience celebrating LGBTQ+ specific life-cycle rituals such as coming out and renaming

Clergy answered "I'm Still Learning" 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

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