Reform Judaism Gets 1st Gay President

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Source: Daily Beast

The Central Conference of American Rabbis, the rabbinical branch of Reform Judaism, finally has its first openly gay president. Denise Eger, who founded Congregation Kol Ami in Los Angeles, will be sworn in on Monday. “It really shows an arc of LGBT civil rights,” Eger told Seattle PI. “I smile a lot—with a smile of incredulousness.” With 2,000 rabbis and 862 congregations, Reform Judaism is the largest organization in American Judaism.

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/03/15/reform-judaism-gets-1st-gay-president.html

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Also see
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/US-Reform-Jewish-rabbis-install-1st-openly-6135239.php

but site was not opening for me when I posted.

[shenmue]

1. Betcha Brian Fischer complains about this pretty soon

[DonViejo]

2. Yeah, but he'll be whining about the "liberal Jews"...

turning it into an anti-Semitic tirade about "leftists and Jews destroying America."

[Gothmog]

3. Reform Judaism has been accepting of LGBT for a long time

My Temple has had a couple of gay rabbis