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Read moreTrans/Gender Queer Jewish Wedding Service By Rabbi Elliot Kukla, July 2006 Introduction Over the past months as a newly ordained rabbi I have had the privilege of officiating at a number of weddings involving transgender and/or gender nonconforming people. In some ways these weddings are no more or less unique…
Read moreWhen my life partner, Keren, and I celebrated our brit ahavah ten years ago this month, we wanted to make sure that our ceremony was a recognizably Jewish one. We had a chuppah, we drank wine, we exchanged rings, we smashed a glass at the end, and we had friends…
Read moreSan Francisco, Nov. 13, 2009: As Rabbi Elliot Kukla and Reuben Zellman often teach(1), the broad terms of “transgender” and “trans” can include anyone who knows themselves to be a gender that is different than the gender they were assigned at birth. They also teach us that transphobia affects all…
Read moreParashat Tazria and Parashat Metzora Created by the Hand of Heaven: A Jewish Approach to Intersexuality by Rabbi Elliot Rose Kukla and Reuben Zellman on Saturday April 21, 2007 3 Iyyar 5767 Leviticus 12:1 – 15:33 God spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelite people thus: When a woman…
Read moreDeconstructing Leviticus: Finding a Queer Spiritual Path Back from the Exile of Sacred Text By Avi Rose Queer & Jewish–A Personal Journey And if a man lie with mankind as with womankind, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall…
Read moreLESSON 6: Coming Out at Camp Goal: To create a space for CITs (Counselors in Training) to think critically about how accessible camp is for those who are LGBT. Objectives: At the end of this lesson, CITs will be able to… identify the difficulties of coming out in the camp…
Read moreGender in Jewish Law and Thought Prepared by Oren Hayon, UW Hillel Human Gender: The Essentialist or Biological Component And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them and God said to them,…
Read moreThe primary mission of the Jewish Outreach Institute (www.JOI.org) is to “reach out and welcome in” the intermarried, and to promote inclusiveness in the Jewish community for intermarried families and disconnected Jews. Originally founded in 1988 as a think tank and research facility devoted to the study of intermarriage, JOI’s…
Read more“I believe we are living in an age in which the shechinah is becoming visible,” Rabbi Steve Greenberg says. “There are questions we can ask now that we have not been able to ask before.” Greenberg is “the openly gay Orthodox rabbi.” That’s the way he’s referred to in the…
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