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Where transgender meets Torah head on

Started by Shana A, October 19, 2011, 08:49:07 AM

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Shana A

October 19, 2011, 08:49:07 AM
Where transgender meets Torah head on

By Sue Fishkoff, October 19, 2011

http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/56646/where-transgender-meets-torah-head

Rabbi Reuben Zellman is a soft-spoken young man with a ready smile who serves as the assistant rabbi at Reform congregation Beth El in Berkeley, California.

He was also born a girl.

Rabbi Zellman, 32, is one of a growing number of transgender Jews in North America who are active in their Jewish communities and working as educators, activists and, increasingly, rabbis. He is the second openly transgender rabbi working in the San Francisco Bay area.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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