Posted on 02/14/2022 6:41:26 PM PST by marshmallow
Since becoming University of San Francisco’s rabbi-in-residence in 2019, Rabbi Camille Angel has been busy, whether she’s creating inclusive on-campus spaces, helping to empower students through her classes, officiating Jewish lifecycle events or leading Passover seders.
When Angel’s hiring was announced, it made headlines. A Jesuit Catholic university appointing a rabbi-in-residence was unprecedented, especially when that rabbi is a lesbian and longtime LGBTQ activist. She says credit for her presence on campus is largely due to the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice.
“I was trained and I’m a rabbi to serve Jews, and I do — I led a shiva two nights ago, so I’m definitely still serving Jews,” Angel told J. “But there’s something remarkable for me and totally unexpected about my rabbinate being primarily among non-Jews at this point and that my teaching is primarily with non-Jews.”
According to Angel, there is only one Jewish student in her “Queering Religion” class of 40. The other students represent a mix of religious affiliations, but they gravitate to Angel’s classes and programs because of the inclusive queer community she has cultivated on campus.
“I actually didn’t know much about Judaism and what a rabbi was or what they did,” said Jade Peñafort, a senior sociology major from Redwood City. “But honestly, I love it. I’ve learned from her that in Judaism, some of the core values are just working with other people and for other people and as a community. It’s not just about yourself.”
Angel said it’s important for her to be a visibly Jewish and queer presence on campus — both in and out of the classroom. She regularly wears an embroidered kippah and keeps a rainbow pride flag displayed in her office window. She emphasizes how much real representation and inclusion matter......
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This article is pure trash. First of all, there is no such thing as a woman “rabbi”. Anyone claiming to be so, despite any such “training” for this position, is a fraud. Once a person goes down a road contrary to Jewish law, any other “callings” they decide to pursue in that bent cannot be characterized as part of duties of an actual rabbi. At that point, it’s entirely their show, not to be connected with anything actually Jewish.
That must be insulting to some Jews, as many Orthodox Jews would not recognize there could be a woman rabbi.
Probably a large percentage of priests are gay, but I did not know the Catholic Church accepted that homosexuality was fine.
My grandmother would have made a face and say “Feh!”🤮🤮🤮
Everyone in “the inclusive queer community” is unhappy now and doomed. Bunch of losers at a failed school.
Kind of insulting for Catholics to appoint a woman, who close to half of Jews would not accept as a rabbi. Then the probably closet gay priests appoint an openly gay rabbi.
One step over the city limits and this obvious GUY turns into dust. Only in SF could a FREAK like this exist, whatever it is...a RABBI...it is NOT. It is less Jewish than a foreskin.
Is the problem mainly that the university is in California or that it’s Jesuit?
Meet the Rabbi ‘Queering’ Religion at Jesuit Catholic USF
Quote marks should be around ‘Rabbi’.
A woman rabbi? I don’t think so.
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