Steven Greenberg

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Life and career

Greenberg, the son of Conservative Jewish immigrants, was born in Columbus, Ohio. He began studying with a rabbi when he was about 15. He attended Yeshiva University in New York as an undergraduate and then as a rabbinical student. When he was 20, he began to study at Yeshivat Har Etzion, a hesder yeshiva in Alon Shvut near Jerusalem. He earned his BA in philosophy from Yeshiva University, as well as his rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University's rabbinical seminary (RIETS) in 1983.

He was attracted to a fellow scholar and discovered that he was bisexual while at Yeshivat Har Etzion. "I am attracted to both men and women," Rabbi Yosef Sholom Eliashiv, a respected rabbi in Jerusalem, told him, "Harav, I am attracted to both men and women."

What shall I do?"

According to Greenberg, the rabbi replied: "You have twice the strength of love." "Use it sparingly." Greenberg remembers that he left with the hope that it would all work out. However, he discovered that the rabbi was not encouraging him to have sex with men, but that his desire was not unconstitutional on and of itself.

Greenberg did not know he was gay until he was 28, and even after that, he continued to date women for another seven years. In 1993, he wrote the article "Gayness and God" admitting that he is gay and releasing it under the pseudonym "Yaakov Levado" (meaning Jacob alone) in Tikkun magazine, but it wasn't until 1996 that a partnership "In the name of partnership" appeared in the Israeli daily newspaper Maariv.

Greenberg had an Orthodox pulpit on Roosevelt Island in New York City early in his career. 22 Since 1985, he has been a Senior Teaching Fellow and Director of the Diversity Initiative at CAL, an interdenominational Jewish think tank, leadership development center, and resource center. He is a co-founder and director of Eshel, a non-traditional Jewish support, education, and advocacy group that saves lives and families. He is also on the faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, a Shalom Hartman Institute program.

He served as a Jerusalem Fellow with the Mandel Institute from 1996 to 1998, focusing on education policy issues and investigating rabbinic attitudes toward homosexuality. Greenberg appeared in the critically acclaimed 2001 documentary film Trembling Before G-D, which was on display at the Sundance Festival. The film about gay men and women raised in the orthodox Jewish faith helped break the deadlock surrounding homosexuality in religious Jewish circles.

Greenberg officiated a civil marriage in Washington, D.C., on November 10, 2011. Greenberg's religious ceremony was widely reported, and Greenberg has consistently stated that the same gender kiddushin (Jewish marriage) is incompatible with Jewish law.

Greenberg, who attended a civil marriage in the United States first published by +972 Magazine on November 11, 2011, generating controversy and being misunderstood and rejected by many within the Jewish community. Many people were confused and believed that he had administered the rites of a Jewish wedding (kiddushin).

Greenberg referred to the wedding as a "same-sex marriage" and that "while it was a wedding according to the District of Columbia's rules, it was not a kiddushin," adding, "my position was and still is that kiddushin is not appropriate for same-sex couples." "I did not conduct a 'gay wedding,'" he wrote in an article in the Jewish Week two weeks later. I officiated at a reception honoring two men's decision to commit to each other in love and do so in a binding way before families and relatives. Although it was a legal marriage under the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia, as far as Orthodox Jewish law (halacha) is concerned, there was no kiddushin (Jewish wedding ceremony) conducted."

More than 100 rabbis signed a statement on December 5, 2011, stating: "We, as rabbis from a variety of cultures around the world, want to correct the incorrect belief that an Orthodox-approved same-gender wedding took place." A union that is not forbidden by Torah law is not an observance of a wedding, according to the law, and a person who hosts such a service is not an Orthodox rabbi."

Greenberg and his family currently reside in Boston, Boston.

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