Meet the Grindr Rabbi Who Says the Gay Sex App Can Bring Jews Together
‘There are a ton of Jews of all stripes, especially people who have nothing to do with organized religion,’ he says. ‘Why not try getting to them on Grindr?’
Grindr is just about the last place I’d expect to find a rabbi. I mean, sure, a rabbi would probably less likely be at, say, a brothel, too, but Grindr’s pretty high up on the list.
And yet 24-year-old Matt Greene, a second year rabbinical student at New York City’s Hebrew Union College, is making a name for himself as the Grindr Rebbe.
Having returned to the United States this summer after his first year of rabbinical school in Israel, Greene quirkily decided to indicate that fact in his personal Grindr profile. The response, Greene recalls, was overwhelming. “People were contacting me saying are you Jewish? How was Israel? Then,” he adds, “when I mentioned I was in rabbinical school, everyone kept asking about Kashrut [Jewish dietary laws], and Judaism!”
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