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Sharon Kleinbaum



Sharon Kleinbaum is an American rabbi, human rights advocate, and spiritual leader of New York City’s Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST). Sharon was named one of the fifty most influential rabbis, one of the top ten women religious leaders, and one of fifteen inspiring LGBT religious leaders by various news outlets. She is most well known for her social justice work for the LGBTQIA community.

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Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum speech from Women's Event 12:

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LGBTQ Rabbi Who Confronted Aids Crisis Now Faces Coronavirus

Sharon Kleinbaum said her LGBTQ synagogue, New York City’s Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, “knows what it takes to live through a plague.”

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Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum Drash About Tisha'A B'Av - August 5, 2016

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Interfaith Leaders Rally to Raise Awareness of Homelessness Among LGBTQ Youth

According to a 2008 Homeless Youth Survey, considered representative of of the homeless youth population in New York, out of 3800 homeless youth in the city every night, 42% are LGBTQ.

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Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Morning 5779 - Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum Drasha

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Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum Call to Action: Gun Control Is a Gay Issue

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum's call to action in response to the Orlando shootings - CBST's Family & Friends Shabbat, Friday June 17, 2016.

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Keynote Address by Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum.

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum delievers the keynote address at the “Resisting Anti-Semitism: Past and Present, Local and Global" conference on Sept. 16, 2018.

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At Work With: Sharon Kleinbaum; ‘Luckiest Rabbi in America’ Holds Faith Amid the Hate

As the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, a predominantly gay and lesbian synagogue in Greenwich Village, Rabbi Kleinbaum spends her days fighting Goliaths everywhere, most disturbingly, perhaps, other Jews who believe that the sexual orientation of her congregation’s 1,200...

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10 Inspiring Women Religious Leaders

For thousands of years, women have participated in religious observance and worked to support religious institutions — often in greater numbers than men. Unfortunately, women in leadership roles have too often been discouraged, resisted or prohibited in all religious traditions.

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A Merger for the Rabbi and the Labor Leader

Randi Weingarten and Rabbi Sharon Anne Kleinbaum are to be married March 25 at La Marina, a restaurant in New York.

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