Reform LGBT Congregatn Sha’ar Zahav San Francis, like CBST New York, is reachg out to Jews who are not gay.
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Wh creased gay rights the US, the new challenge for ‘queer havens’ is gettg members of all strip to the pews. But the shul, which sce s 1977 foundg has been known as San Francis’s gay synagogue, is now reachg out to a broar muny and -emphasizg s inty as an LGBT-specific ngregatn.
Many synagogu today have bee creasgly wele to homosexual, bisexual and transgenr ngregants and clergy.
Illtrative: Lol Jewish muni the Bay Area show their support for the gay muny at the San Francis gay para. Found four s ago as a home for gay and lbian Jews, the synagogue was a lear the 1980s rg for those wh AIDS. Illtrative: Rabbi Steven Greenberg of Eshel, seen 2014, was the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi and has propelled the nversatn about LGBTQ acceptance the Orthodox muny.
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“Those valu were embedd the foundg of Sha’ar Zahav as a place where gay and lbian Jews uld e and pray at a time when that was very difficult. Still Klebm, who has served at New York’s Be Simchat Torah sce 1992, noted that focg on self-intifitn miss the pot: Sha’ar Zahav don’t have to worry about gay Jews flockg to other San Francis shuls. Sha’ar Zahav and many other gay shuls really elevated the Jewish world by settg an example of what meant to be clive.
“Those valu were imbedd the foundg of Sha’ar Zahav as a place where gay and lbian Jews uld e and pray at a time when that was very difficult. Still, Klebm, who has served at New York’s Be Simchat Torah sce 1992, noted that focg on self-intifitn miss the pot: Sha’ar Zahav don’t have to worry about gay Jews flockg to other San Francis shuls. But the shul that has been known sce s 1977 foundg as San Francis’s gay synagogue is now reachg out to a broar muny and -emphasizg s inty as an LGBT-specific ngregatn.
That reflects the Reform ngregatn’s changg mographics as well as the evolutn attus toward LGBT people the greater Jewish muny, which other lol shuls now also wele homosexual, bisexual and transgenr ngregants and clergy. Sha’ar Zahav — while retag s “queer valu” re — is focg on how to serve a ngregatn that is creasgly of mixed genr, cludg rints of the Castro who are not gay.