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Rabbi Sam Pollak (he/him)

Director of Youth and Family Education

Reform

Temple Isaiah
Lexington, Massachusetts
United States

About

Rabbi Sam Pollak joined Temple Isaiah in 2024 as Director of Youth Family Education. Most recently, Rabbi Sam served as the Director of Congregational Learning at Kerem Shalom in Concord, Massachusetts, and previously he served as one of the rabbis of The Community Synagogue in Port Washington, New York. Rabbi Sam grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, receiving his rabbinical ordination in 2017 from that city's founding campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He currently lives in Lexington with his husband and son.

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Clergy answered "Yes" to the following

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
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

Trained on LGBTQ+ identities within past five years
Experience in end-of-life care for LGBTQ+ individuals
Experience celebrating LGBTQ+ specific life-cycle rituals such as coming out and renaming
Experience officiating LGBTQ+ weddings

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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