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Title: Transgender Rabbi Blazes Trail for Observant Jews
Post by: Shana A on January 05, 2009, 08:47:13 PM
Transgender Rabbi Blazes Trail for Observant Jews
by Kilian Melloy
EDGE Contributor
Monday Jan 5, 2009

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=85441 (http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=85441)

The Jewish community has largely embraced its GLB members, with transgendered Jews now also being more widely accepted.

A Han. 5 article at Haaretz.com related the experience of Elliot Kukla, a rabbi in the Reform tradition of the Jewish faith, who disclosed that he was transgendered before he was ordained over two years ago.

In that short span of time, Kukla has seen the his faith open up to him.