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Rabbi Ilana Grinblat (She/her)
Rabbi
Conservative;Non-Denominational;Reform;Renewal
Ahavat Torah
Los Angeles, California
United States

About

Our community and I are welcoming to people of all background and committed to treating all people with love and respect, eager to learn the story of each person's life and the Torah each person teaches through their life story.

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
  • 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

Clergy answered "No" to the following

  • Experience officiating gender-expansive b-mitzvah
  • Familiar with gender-expansive Hebrew liturgical and linguistic options

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

  • Experience celebrating LGBTQ+ specific life-cycle rituals such as coming out and renaming
  • Experience officiating LGBTQ+ weddings