Sharon Kleinbaum (born 1959) is an American Rabbi who serves as spiritual leader of New York City's Congregation Beit Simchat Torah. She was installed as CBST's first rabbi in 1992, arriving at the height of the AIDS crisis when the synagogue was in desperate need of pastoral care and spiritual leadership. She is a prominent advocate for human rights. She graduated from Barnard College and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where she was ordained. While at Barnard College, she led protests against Barnard's investments in South Africa and against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. She is openly lesbian and has two daughters. She married Rabbi Margaret Wenig in 2008, but they divorced.
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1959 (age 66)
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