Orthodox Judaism has its first openly gay congregational rabbi. This is his story.
When a therapist proposed integrating his rabbinical and queer selves a few years ago, Rabbi Shua Brick just laughed
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Archive From the archive: Orthodox sage ‘comes out’ as a center debuts in Jerusalem
Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg in 1999 revealed his queer identity in the Forward and the Israeli newspaper, Ma'ariv
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Opinion A Place for Gays in Orthodoxy
Not a month goes by without a young person just out of the closet — or sometimes that person’s shocked parents — contacting me in search of Orthodox leaders to respond credibly to their questions. It was this reality that was on my mind as I confronted the backlash to a same-sex commitment ceremony I…
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The Schmooze Gay Orthodox Rabbi Does Same-Sex Marriage
Roee Ruttenberg reported over the weekend in +972 Magazine that “for the first time in history an openly-gay American rabbi ordained by the Orthodox movement has officiated at a same-sex wedding ceremony.” He was referring to a Jewish marriage ceremony that Rabbi Steve Greenberg performed for gay couple Yoni Bock and Ron Kaplan at the…
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