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Sharon Kleinbaum (born 1959) is an American rabbi who served as spiritual leader of New York City's Congregation Beit Simchat Torah for 32 years. She is now the synagogue's first Senior Rabbi Emerita. [1] She has been an active campaigner for human rights and civil marriage for gay couples.
For more than three decades, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum has led the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ synagogue through the myriad ups and downs of the modern gay-rights movement — through the AIDS crisis ...
[4] [148] By December 2012, she was in a relationship with Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah. [149] They married March 25, 2018. [150] [151] In December 2014, Weingarten wrote in Jezebel that she had almost been raped just after her junior year in college. [152]
From 1992-2024, the congregation was led by Senior Rabbi Emerita Sharon Kleinbaum. [6] Current clergy include Senior Rabbi Jason Klein, Associate Rabbi Yael Werber, and Cantor Sam Rosen. CBST is not affiliated with any denomination or branch of Judaism.
Kleinbaum and Wenig divorced in 2012 after a nearly 20-year relationship. In a New York Times interview published in 1993, Kleinbaum mentioned raising two kids, but did not disclose the ages.
Married to Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, who describes herself as “a mother by marriage,” is also the stepmother to two daughters, according to The Advocate. Randi Weingarten, president of AFT ...
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum officiated. [6] They retired to Palm Beach County, Florida, where they were continually active in Democratic, LGBT, feminist, and #BlackLivesMatter politics. In 2017, Ruthie and Connie LGBT Elder Americans Act of 2017 was introduced.
"Gilbert would say the flag is political for sure, and that… with art, we can change the world," Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, who leads the New York City's LGBTQ synagogue Congregation Beit Simchat ...