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Article: Reform movement accepts transgendered rabbinical student
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- Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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- March 12, 2003
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Berkofsky, Joe
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
03-12-2003
NEW YORK, March 11 (JTA) -- The Reform movement's rabbinical seminary has
accepted a transgendered person, paving the way for what is believed would
be the first ordination of a rabbi to have switched genders.
The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati
confirmed this week that it accepted a male rabbinical school applicant who
used to be a woman.
The prospective rabbi, Reuben Zellman, 24, of Oakland, Calif., who
considers himself "transgender and queer," said he is not attempting to
spark religious debates nor become a political lightning rod.
"As far as I know, I am the first person to do this, but that's not why
I'm ...