Menachem Creditor

Menachem Creditor is the rabbi of Congregation Netivot Shalom,^[1] in Berkeley, California. He is chair of Bay Area Masorti, a co-founder and facilitator of ShefaNetwork.org: The Conservative/Masorti Movement Dreaming from Within, co-founder of KeshetRabbis: The Alliance of Gay-Friendly Conservative/Masorti Rabbis, and author of TheTisch, a commentary on Jewish Spirituality. Rabbi Creditor sits on the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Assembly, is a member of the Chancellor's Rabbinic Leadership Team at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and is the International Co-Chair of Rabbis for Women of the Wall.

A popular speaker at synagogues, college campuses, and various Jewish communities around the country and in Israel on questions of Jewish Identity, Leadership, and Spirituality, Rabbi Creditor also continues to perform with Shirav,^[2] a Jewish folk-music group.

Creditor has been described as "a vocal proponent of gay and women’s rights"^[3] and "a leading advocate of gay ordination."^[4] He was noted for his controversial 2005 speech at the biennal conference of the Conservative movement, urging the expulsion of non-egalitarian congregations from the movement.^[5] He also appears as a "central figure" in Josh Kornbluth's 2010 monologue Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?^[6][7]

External links

• Rabbi Creditor's Homepage
• Shefa
• KeshetRabbis

Notes

1. ^ http://www.netivotshalom.org
2. ^ http://www.shirav.net
3. ^ Marissa Brostoff, "Conservative Bigs Tackle New Realities", The Forward, November 30, 2007.
4. ^ Ben Harris, "Conservative rabbis open doors to gays, sort of", Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, December 5, 2006.
5. ^ Scott A. Shay, Getting our groove back: how to energize American Jewry (Devora Publishing, 2007), ISBN 9781932687859, p. 192. Excerpt available at Google Books.
6. ^ Dan Pine, "Andy Warhol: Good for this Jew", J. Weekly, April 15, 2010.
7. ^ Pat Craig, "Theater review: Josh Kornbluth scores again with new solo show 'Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?'", San Jose Mercury News, April 13, 2010.

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