Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum retiring from world’s largest LGBTQ synagogue after 32 years
NY Post
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 Kleinbaum arrived — and LGBTQ’s Jewish leaders, living in fear and trauma with 40% gone from AIDS, could then congregate freely to worship.
Rabbi Kleinbaum’s congregation is now 1,300, 25 staff, four rabbis, an internship program, prominent alumni worldwide and LGBTQ’s largest synagogue in the world.
To honor her retirement after 32 years, the Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum & Randi Weingarten Fund for Social Justice at CBST will launch a celebratory concert June 3 at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Anybody notice that TV interviewees — many with marginal fame posing on location — all — each — everyone — always and forever place themselves in front of or sit alongside a bookcase? Why?
Have they no couches, divans, chairs, stools, pillows, ladder tops, low tables, cushions or large dogs they can rest against instead of copies of paperbacks they’ve never ever read?
