Steven Greenberg (rabbi)
Rabbi Steven Greenberg | |
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Greenberg in 2013 | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | June 19, 1956 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yeshiva University (BA in philosophy) |
| Occupation | Senior Teaching Fellow and Director of Diversity Project at CLAL – the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, and author |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
| 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.
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.
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".