Within this debate, Rabbi Steven Greenberg is an amazing new voice, calling for a religiously guided homosexuality. Rabbi Steven Greenberg is a Senior Teaching Fellow at CLAL, a faculty member of The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and a founder and director of Eshel, a … Amalia, two and a half years old, has an abundance of self-confidence and a winning smile. By way of comment, a rabbi from Yeshiva University where Greenberg studied and obtained his ordination, said that a gay Orthodox rabbi was about as paradoxical as a rabbi who eats a cheeseburger on Yom Kippur.
Steven Greenberg, the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi, tells Libby Brooks how he squares his sexuality with his faith Friday 30 May 2003 The Guardian Greenberg, 54, is a senior teaching fellow at the New York-based CLAL: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership.
Rabbi Greenberg grew up in Columbus, Ohio. Five years later, Rabbi Greenberg published Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, a book that is not only an new look at depictions of same-sex relationships in Jewish sacred texts, but also examines these relationships in Jewish poetry and case law. In 1999, Rabbi Steve Greenberg became the first out Orthodox rabbi. In 1993, under the pseudonym Rabbi Yaakov Levado, Orthodox rabbi Steven Greenberg began to reveal his struggle as an Orthodox Jew and a gay man in the pages of Tikkun magazine. Yoni Bock and Ron Kaplan exchanged vows before some 200 friends and family members, wearing matching kittels – the traditional white robe worn during Jewish weddings – and marigold kippot. In 1993, under the pseudonym Rabbi Yaakov Levado, Orthodox rabbi Steven Greenberg began to reveal his struggle as an Orthodox Jew and a gay man in the pages of Tikkun magazine. He went to Yeshiva University and Yeshivat Har Etzion in Gush Etzion, one of the most well respected in the world, headed until last week by HaRav Aharon Lichteinstein z”l. Rabbi Steven Greenberg, who's often called the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi, was among them. When Rabbi Steve Greenberg was a young rabbinical student at an Orthodox Yeshiva near Jerusalem in the mid-1970s, he was attracted to a fellow (male) student. Orthodox rabbi Steven Greenberg, 57, and actor and opera singer Steven Goldstein, wed last year in a civil ceremony in New York, while holding the toddler in their arms. Register here! Rabbi Greenberg’s rich career encompasses his work as a renowned scholar, a beloved teacher, a developer of several institutions core to the life of the American Jewish community, a congregational rabbi, and an author.
In 2004 Rabbi Steve Greenberg’s groundbreaking book appeared on shelves in the US and created a new starting point for exploring the Jewish tradition’s engagement with same-sex love and relationship. He is the author of Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition , which won the Koret Jewish Book Award for Philosophy and Thought.
Rabbi Steven Greenberg is not shy about proclaiming who he is, though it raises eyebrows. The ceremony took place at the […] --Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, Jewish Life Network / Steinhardt Foundation During his book tour in Israel, which was sponsored by A Wider Bridge, Rabbi Steven Greenberg talked to “Ha’aretz,” a highly respected newspaper in Israel, about coming out, pain, and parenthood.
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