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Title: Bay Area's First Transgender Rabbi
Post by: Shana A on June 11, 2010, 03:29:34 PM
Post by: Shana A on June 11, 2010, 03:29:34 PM
Bay Area's First Transgender Rabbi
By Aaron Glantz, New America Media on June 10, 2010 - 11:04 a.m. PDT
http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/bay-areas-first-transgender-rabbi/ (http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/bay-areas-first-transgender-rabbi/)
The Bay Area has its first transgender rabbi. J., Northern California's Jewish weekly, reports that Congregation Beth El in Berkeley has hired Reuben Zellman to be its new assistant rabbi and music director.
There, Zellman, who is only the second transgender rabbi ever ordained at the reform movement's Hebrew Union College, will join Rabbi Yoel Kahn, who is openly gay.
It is perhaps a sign of the times that the 900-word article in j. quotes no one opposing Zellman's appointment to the pulpit.
Title: Re: Bay Area's First Transgender Rabbi
Post by: Arch on June 12, 2010, 04:08:14 PM
Post by: Arch on June 12, 2010, 04:08:14 PM
First that they know of. ;)