(Jewish Group) Gay, African-American rabbi wants to shatter Jewish stereotypes
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NEW YORK As a Jew of color, Rabbi Georgette Kennebrae has had her fair share of experiences that have made her feel less than welcome in the Jewish community. People sometimes assume that she is a member of the synagogue janitorial staff rather than the rabbi. Sometimes when visiting a synagogue, shell be asked if shes lost.
In her position as the newly installed rabbi of West End Synagogue, a Reconstructionist congregation on the Upper West Side, Kennebrae aims to challenge notions of what a Jew looks like.
Kennebrae, 42, wants to make people understand that Im not rare as a Jew of color, that there are many of us and that it shouldnt be an automatic assumption that Im a Jew-by-choice because Im brown, she said at a coffee shop near her congregation.
Earlier this year she was awarded a Schusterman Fellowship, an 18-month leadership development program of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation.
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