Elliot Kukla
Elliot Kukla is the first openly transgender person to be ordained by the Reform Jewish seminary Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. Kukla is a rabbi at the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center.[1][2]
He came out as transgender six months before his ordination in 2006.[3][4] Later, at the request of a friend of his who was also transgender, he wrote the first blessing sanctifying the sex-change process to be included in the 2007 edition of the Union for Reform Judaism's resource manual for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender inclusion called Kulanu.[5][5][6]
Kukla has also written for Shm'a: A Journal of Jewish responsibility, Zeek: A Journal of Jewish Thought and Culture and Lilith, and other anthologies.[1]
Before moving to San Francisco, he served congregations in his hometown of Toronto, Canada, as well as West Hollywood, California and Lubbock, Texas.[3]
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