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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 ...
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.
Weingarten was born in 1957 in New York City, to a Jewish family, Gabriel and Edith (Appelbaum) Weingarten. Her father was an electrical engineer and her mother a teacher. [1] [2] Weingarten grew up in Rockland County, New York, and attended Clarkstown High School North in New City, New York. [2]
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]
Sharon Stone and Roan Joseph Bronstein. JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images Stone became a mom for the first time when the actress and her first husband, Phil Bronstein , adopted Roan in 2000.
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]