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Gil Steinlauf

Mar 9, 2023, 4:02 AM

When Judy Heumann schooled me about the truth

The mother of disability rights made me, a rabbi, see how traditional Judaism can be dehumanizing, in the guise of pity

Dec 22, 2022, 12:04 AM

Why I’m Still Kvelling After My First Semester as Princeton’s Rabbi

For decades, I had heard about the magic of Friday nights at the Center for Jewish Life/Hillel (CJL) at my alma mater, Princeton University: the packed house, the controlled but glorious chaos, students intersecting from all walks of Jewish...

Jul 22, 2018, 1:22 PM

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A modern-day lament in the face of baseless hatred in Israel, this Tisha B’Av

People take part at a protest march against the proposed Nation-state Law in Tel Aviv on July 14, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Dear God, how can the Jewish state be undermining its own democratic and progressive values?

About Me

Rabbi Gil Steinlauf is Executive Director of the Center for Jewish Life/Hillel at Princeton, where he is also an alum. Prior to returning to Princeton in 2022, he served as Rabbi at Adas Israel in Washington, DC, and then Congregation Kol Shalom in Rockville, MD. Rabbi Gil founded the Jewish Teen Leadership Institute and the Hineni Fellowship for LGBTQ Jewish Leadership to nurture new LGBTQ leaders in the Jewish world.