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LGBT rabbi who confronted AIDS crisis now faces COVID-19

by AP National Writer
| April 12, 2020 10:06 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — 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.

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