Aaron Weininger

 

The Rabbinical School of the Jewish Theological Seminary

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Aaron Weininger received his BA in Jewish Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in May 2007. He will be entering the second year of his rabbinical studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Continuing his college activism, which focused on Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation and leadership in College Democrats, he chairs the JTS Committee on Inclusion, one of the school's initiatives focused on the dynamics of culture change and the inclusion of lesbian and gay students. This summer he is enrolled in Clinical Pastoral Education at NY's Bellevue Hospital.

Living Out Leviticus Today

Toward a Sacred Sexuality

We will explore challenging texts from our tradition to begin reclaiming and drawing from that tradition, to create a faith-based, inclusive vision for gender and sexual diversity in the Jewish community.

Creating Welcoming Communities

LGBT Jewish Inclusion

Caryn Aviv, Gregg Drinkwater, Steve Greenberg, Amichai Lau Lavie, Sharon Steinhorn, Aaron Weininger

Have lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Jews "made it" in the Jewish world? Since 2006, the Conservative Movement opened two of its seminaries to gay and lesbian students, the Reform Movement ordained the first openly transgender rabbi, and Reconstructionists elected the first openly gay leader of a national rabbinic body. But too many LGBT Jews are still excluded from full integration into Jewish communal and institutional cultures. Come discuss the future of LGBT inclusion in Jewish life with one of the first openly-gay Conservative rabbinical students, the proud mother of a gay son, the first openly-gay Orthodox rabbi, the founder of Storahtelling, and the staff of Jewish Mosaic.

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