Steven Greenberg (rabbi)

Steven Greenberg (rabbi)

Steven Greenberg (born 1956) is an American rabbi with a rabbinic ordination from the Orthodox rabbinical seminary of Yeshiva University (RIETS). He is generally described as the first openly gay Orthodox Jewish rabbi, since he publicly disclosed he was gay in an article in the Israeli newspaper Maariv in 1999 and participated in a 2001 documentary film about homosexual men and women raised in the Orthodox Jewish world. Some Orthodox Jews, including many rabbis, dispute his being an Orthodox rabbi.

Greenberg is a Senior Teaching Fellow and Director of Diversity Project at CLAL – the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, and the author of the book “Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition” which received the Koret Jewish Book Award for Philosophy and Thought in 2005.

He is listed number 44 in the 2012 The Daily Beast and Newsweek list of “America’s Top 50 Rabbis for 2012”.