Evan Sheinhait

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Rabbi Evan Sheinhait (he/him)

Rabbi

Reform

[email protected]

978-535-2100

Temple Tiferet Shalom 489 Lowell St
Peabody, Massachusetts 1960
United States

About

Rabbi Evan is a passionate community builder who celebrates vibrant and meaningful Jewish identity, exploring what Jewish life can and must look like in the 21st century. Throughout his rabbinate, Rabbi Evan has worked with synagogues and Hillels across the East Coast. Rabbi Evan Sheinhait earned his master's degree in Hebrew Literature from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 2018 and received his Rabbinic ordination in 2019. He is also a proud graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with a Bachelor of Arts in Judaic Studies.

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

Clergy answered "No" to the following

Experience in end-of-life care for LGBTQ+ individuals

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

Trained on LGBTQ+ identities within past five years
Experience officiating gender-expansive b-mitzvah
Experience officiating LGBTQ+ weddings

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