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Old March 3rd, 2019 #57
Stewart Meadows
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Beth Chayim Chadashim (בית חיים חדשים, "House of New Life") was founded in Mid-City Los Angeles in 1972 as a synagogue primarily for lesbians and gays. Affiliated with Reform Judaism,[1] it has been acknowledged by the Los Angeles Conservancy as being "culturally significant"[2] as both the first LGBT synagogue in the world, the first LGBT synagogue recognized by the Union for Reform Judaism and, in 1977, as the first LGBT synagogue to own its own building.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Chayim_Chadashim

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Denise Leese (Davida)[1] Eger (born March 14, 1960)[2] is an American Reform rabbi. In March 2015 she became president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the largest and oldest rabbinical organization in North America; she is the first openly gay person to hold that position.[3][4]
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Rabbi Eger was ordained in 1988 at the New York campus of Hebrew Union College,[6] following which she served as the first full-time rabbi of Beth Chayim Chadashim in Los Angeles, the world's first gay and lesbian synagogue recognized by Reform Judaism.[7]
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Rabbi Eger won the Morris Kight Lifetime Achievement Award from Christopher Street West/LA Pride.[13] In 2008 she was named one of the Forward 50; one of the fifty most influential Jews in North America for her work in LGBT rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Eger

Denise Eger. "Trust me."