The Central Conference of American Rabbis, the rabbinical branch of Reform Judaism, finally has its first openly gay president. Denise Eger, who founded Congregation Kol Ami in Los Angeles, will be sworn in on Monday. “It really shows an arc of LGBT civil rights,” Eger told Seattle PI. “I smile a lot—with a smile of incredulousness.” With 2,000 rabbis and 862 congregations, Reform Judaism is the largest organization in American Judaism.
