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Rabbi Rebecca Gutterman (She/ Her)
Rabbi
Reform
Connecticut
United States

About

While my experience in the areas above isn't extensive, I'm committed to Keshet and it's work, and to doing whatever I can to create life-cycle events that speak to each person or couple's unique identities and needs.

I look forward to getting to know you, as does our synagogue!

Listing Details

Clergy answered "Yes" to the following

  • Experience officiating gender-expansive b-mitzvah
  • 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
  • Experience in pastoral/spiritual care of LGBTQ+ individuals

Clergy answered "No" 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
  • Familiar with gender-expansive Hebrew liturgical and linguistic options
  • 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

  • Speaks or writes regularly on LGBTQ+ themes