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Steve is an Orthdox rabbi, ordained at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Since 1985 he has served as a senior educator for CLAL, a think tank, leadership training institute and resource center. While living in Jerusalem, Steve helped to create the Jerusalem Open House, Jerusalem's first gay and lesbian community center and continues to serve as its educational advisor. Steve appeared in the documentary, Trembling Before G-d, and joined with the film maker to create a worldwide outreach project conducting over 500 post-screening community dialogues all over the world. Steve is the author of Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, University of Wisconsin Press (February 2004), which recently won the Koret Jewish Book Award.