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Rabbi Jenny Solomon (she/her)
Rabbi
Conservative
Beth Meyer Synagogue
Raleigh, North Carolina
United States

About

Rabbi Dr. Jenny Solomon currently serves as a rabbi at Beth Meyer Synagogue as well as the founding director of Libi Eir Awakened Heart Community Mikveh in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she compassionately inspires her congregants as they navigate their Jewish journeys.  She also serves as the Spiritual Director for the Hartman Beit Midrash for a New North American Rabbinate. Rabbi Solomon received her undergraduate degree from Brown University, was ordained from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and completed a doctorate in counseling from the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health in New York City. She is a proud member of the board of directors of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality (IJS) from which she received certification as a teacher of Jewish Mindfulness Meditation. She has spent extensive time studying in Israel and was awarded a Wexner Fellowship. The proud mother of Meirav, Adi and Natan, Rabbi Solomon also loves to run, practice yoga, and ride her Peloton bike!

Our community is deeply committed to LGBTQ+ inclusion and belonging. From the way we guide mikveh experiences and celebrate lifecycle moments to our pastoral care and annual Pride Shabbat, we strive to create a sacred community where queer individuals and families are fully welcomed, affirmed, and celebrated.

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