(New York Jewish Week) — Sharon Kleinbaum, the first full-time rabbi of Manhattan’s Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, announced that she will step down after three decades leading New York’s ...
NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...
On one of her final Shabbat mornings as senior rabbi at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, New York City’s pioneering LGBTQ-oriented synagogue, Sharon Kleinbaum was presented by her junior clergy with a ...
With what’s going on in our world, a word about a special lady: Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (called the gay synagogue) began 1992. Height of the AIDS crisis. No staff or leader before Rabbi Sharon ...