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Kleinbaum was installed as CBST's first rabbi in 1992. [7] [5] [8] She is a prominent advocate for human rights.[8]In 1995, Kleinbaum, along with Rabbi Margaret Wenig and Russell Pearce, sent a resolution asking for support for civil marriage for gay couples to the Reform movement's Commission on Social Action; when it was approved by them, Wenig submitted it to the Central Conference of ...
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.
In March 1992 they hired Sharon Kleinbaum, a Reconstructionist, [52] marking a significant improvement from past gender-based tensions at the congregation. [53] By 2001, CBST was the largest gay and lesbian synagogue in the world, [54] with Kleinbaum leading it beyond its substantial local influence in New York, onto the international stage. [28]
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 ...
In 1976, she and Naomi Janowitz wrote Siddur Nashim, which was the first Jewish prayer book to refer to God using female pronouns and imagery. [4]Wenig graduated from Brown University in 1978, [5] [6] and was ordained in 1984. [2]
[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]
Sharon Kleinbaum and Randi Weingarten (m. 2018) [68] [69] [70] Jónína Leósdóttir, novelist, and Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, 24th Prime Minister of Iceland (m. 2010) [71] Beth Malone, American actress and singer and Rochelle Schoppert, a music technician (m. 20??) [72] Christine Marinoni and Cynthia Nixon, American actress (m. 2012) [73] [74]
With Rabbi Gerald Serotta and Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum as founding board co-chairpersons and Rabbi Brian Walt as founding executive director, RHR-NA was launched. [11] Not long after the organization's founding, RHR-NA began to work on advocacy and education around human rights issues in North America.