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Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum sings during her last service at the Masonic Hall, Friday, June 28, 2024, in New York. After leading the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ synagogue through the myriad ups and downs of the modern gay-rights movement for the last three decades, she is now stepping down from that role and shifting into retirement. The synagogue that she led for 32 years — Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in midtown Manhattan — will have to grapple with its identity after being defined by its celebrity rabbi for so long. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

After 32 years as a progressive voice for LGBTQ Jews, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum heads into retirement

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Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum poses for a photograph at the door to her apartment in New York, Monday, April 6, 2020. Kleinbaum was installed in 1992 as rabbi of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in Manhattan. It's considered the largest LGBT synagogue in the nation, and AIDS was killing thousands of gay New Yorkers each year when she took the job. That experience has given her strength as New York now faces the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

LGBT rabbi who confronted AIDS crisis now faces COVID-19

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