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St. Louis Jewish LightIn a first, Orthodox rabbinical school ordains an out gay rabbi
The leading liberal Orthodox rabbinical school quietly ordained an out gay rabbi this summer, marking a first for an Orthodox Jewish institution in the U.S. Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, an all-male seminary in Riverdale, New York, ordained Rabbi Tadhg Cleary in a June 12 ceremony alongside three other graduates. Cleary’s ordination, or semicha, came six years after YCT’s controversial refusal to ordain a different gay student whose public wedding en…
The "Torah Lovers" Yeshiva conferred ordination on Rabbi Tadag Cleary, who studied for almost a decade at a prestigious yeshiva in Israel and came out of the closet. The decision marks a breakthrough, but is not without halachic controversy. The yeshiva rabbi: "He is being ordained for who he is, he is not a symbol." Cleary: "Living as a truly religious person also means living as a whole person."
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