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For transgender teens, Jewish rite of passage is a multi-layered transition

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For transgender teens, Jewish rite of passage is a multi-layered transition

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JNS/By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman/JNS.org   01/19/2016

"A young woman is in the process of transitioning to be a young boy. While the rabbi and close family members are aware of the transition, the congregation is not.

Such was the scenario faced five years ago by Rabbi Eric Gurvis, senior rabbi of Temple Shalom in Newton, Mass. It was among the handful of bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies he has performed for transgender boys and girls."
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