Rabbi Steven Greenberg | |
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| Personal | |
| Born | June 19, 1956 |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Senior Teaching Fellow and Director of Diversity Project at CLAL – the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, and author |
| Position | Co-founder and director |
| Organisation | Eshel |
| Residence | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Semikhah | Yeshiva University (RIETS) |
Steven Greenberg (born June 19, 1956) is an American rabbi with a rabbinic ordination from the Orthodox rabbinical seminary of Yeshiva University (RIETS). He is described as the first openly gay Orthodox-ordained Jewish rabbi, since he publicly disclosed he is gay in an article in the Israeli newspaper Maariv in 1999 and participated in a 2001 documentary film about gay men and women raised in the Orthodox Jewish world.[1]
Greenberg is a Senior Teaching Fellow and Director of Diversity Project at CLAL – the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, and the author of the book Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition which received the Koret Jewish Book Award for Philosophy and Thought in 2005.[2]
In 2011, Greenberg performed a same-sex commitment ceremony, but he believes that formal kiddushin for same-sex couples is against Jewish law.
He was listed number 44 on the 2012 The Daily Beast and Newsweek list of "America's Top 50 Rabbis for 2012".[3]
- ^ Goodstein, Laurie (September 11, 2004). "Bishop Says Conflict on Gays Distracts From Vital Issues". The New York Times. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
Rocker, Simon (February 26, 2005). "Judaism and the gay dilemma". The Guardian. Retrieved November 16, 2011.
Neroulias, Nicole (July 7, 2010). "An Interview With Rabbi Steven Greenberg: Orthodox And Gay". Huffington Post. Retrieved November 16, 2011.
Merwin, Ted (July 19, 2011). "Gay And Orthodox, According To Jon Marans". The Jewish Week. Retrieved November 16, 2011. - ^ "Rabbi Steven Greenberg, JCRC Board Member". Jewish Federation of Cincinnati. Archived from the original on April 15, 2013. Retrieved November 16, 2011.
- ^ Pogrebin, Abigail (April 2, 2012). "America's Top 50 Rabbis for 2012". The Daily Beast. Retrieved April 10, 2012.