Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum serves as spiritual leader of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the preeminent LGBTQ synagogue in New York. Under her leadership as Senior Rabbi, CBST has become a powerful voice in the movement for equality and justice for people of all sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions and a significant force challenging the radical right's dominance over religious and political life in the United States and around the world. For many years Rabbi Kleinbaum has been ranked by Newsweek among the 50 most influential rabbis in America.