Conservative Rabbis Approve New Language for Nonbinary Jews

Conservative Rabbis Approve New Language for Nonbinary Jews
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Each Saturday, several members of a Jewish congregation are called up to the podium to bless the Torah before a portion of it is read aloud. This calling forward, called an aliyah, is considered an honor. But the pronouns used to summon people in Hebrew are gendered. What's a congregational leader to do when summoning a nonbinary person who identifies as neither exclusively male nor exclusively female?
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