Rona Shapiro [SEP] sex or gender
Rona Shapiro
Rona Shapiro became the first female rabbi to head a Conservative synagogue in Cleveland in 2007, when she became rabbi of Congregation Bethaynu in Pepper Pike.
Shapiro was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1990. She worked as the executive director of the University of Berkeley Hillel from 1990 to 1999, and was the senior associate of in Manhattan for seven years before moving to Cleveland. For six of those years she also served the Austin, Texas, congregation Agudas Achim, traveling there during the High
, "You can't magically change your gender. You can't magically change your sex," and has compared such changes to the notion of changing one's age.
In July 2015, Shapiro and transgender rights activist Zoey Tur were on "Dr. Drew On Call" to discuss Caitlyn Jenner's receipt of the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. After Shapiro repeatedly referred to Tur, who is a trans woman, with male pronouns, she grabbed his neck and threatened on air to send him "home in an ambulance"