Religious Figures
- Lionel Blue, first openly gay rabbi in the UK; broadcaster
- Steven Greenberg, first out Orthodox rabbi and staff member of CLAL.
- Denise Eger, first female and the first gay President of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California.
- Sherwin Wine, rabbi and founding figure in Humanistic Judaism.
- Debbie Friedman, singer, songwriter and composer; professor at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music.
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