LGBT rabbi in New York who confronted AIDS crisis now faces COVID-19

NEW YORK: Sharon Kleinbaum was installed in 1992 as rabbi of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in Manhattan, considered the largest LGBT synagogue in the nation. At the time, AIDS was killing thousands of gay New Yorkers each year. “The CBST community knows what it takes to live through a plague,” Kleinbaum says in a message […]