The Oneness Of Being Queer and Jewish – Rabbi Steve Greenberg
Mar 07, 2025•41 min•Ep 319•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
How do you balance faith, sexuality, and life—without losing your mind? Finding the just right path to authenticity can feel overwhelming, even chaotic. But here’s the truth: authenticity is a journey, not a destination. And living your most fulfilled life as a gay, Jewish Rabbi (or whoever you are) is exactly the path you’re meant to walk.
Joining the conversation today is Rabbi Steven Greenberg—author of Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition and founder of Eshel, an Orthodox LGBTQ+ advocacy and support organization. He’s here to share his wisdom on embracing all of who you are and aligning faith, identity, and purpose as a Jewish queer man.
Key lessons you'll learn:
- What does authenticity mean to you and how to live and define it on your terms
- Keys for embracing your Jewish (or other faith-based self) with your gayness
- How to get support from Eshel if you desire it
About Steve
Rabbi Steven Greenberg is an educator, writer and speaker who has led the call for LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Orthodox world.
He is the author of Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, (University of Wisconsin Press) for which he won the Koret Jewish Book Award for Philosophy and Thought in 2005.
Rabbi Greenberg is presently the Founding Director of Eshel, an Orthodox LGBTQ+ community support, education and advocacy organization and lives with his partner, Steven Goldstein, and daughter, Amalia, in Boston.
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