Gender and LGBTQ Equality

Gender and LGBTQ Equality

Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections

2015

Moshe Kornfield, Scott Meyer, Elias Sacks, Stephanie Yuhas, Andrew Violet, Jane Thaler

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Gender and LGBTQ Equality Although women played a leadership role in Jews for Urban Justice, the activists and clergy featured in publicity about the 1969 Freedom Seder were all men. Additionally, the struggle for equal rights for women and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals is not mentioned in the original Freedom Seder text. In the years since this event, advocates for gender equality and LGBTQ rights have transformed both American Judaism and American society. In 1969, there were no female rabbis in the United States. Today, women make up more than half of all non-Orthodox rabbinical students. In 2013, Rabbi Deborah Waxman became the first openly gay rabbi to lead a Jewish denomination.