Sharon Kleinbaum led New York’s queer synagogue through crisis and triumph. Now she’s passing the baton. The first rabbi at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, Kleinbaum led the congregation from the depths of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s to the legalization of gay marriage in 2015.
A Chicago rabbi’s encounter with an anti-Zionist leaflet inspired him to make a new podcast “A Leaflet Drops in Shul” explores Jewish communal responsibility around tolerating opposition to Israel.
Father Coughlin’s Detroit-area church will now teach visitors about his antisemitism The Shrine of the Little Flower has altered the wording on its own history to emphasize their founder was “overtly anti-Semitic.”