The Jewish Center of the Hamptons Welcomes Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum has served as the spiritual leader of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah since 1992. Newsweek magazine has listed her as one of the top 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America five years in a row. The national Jewish weekly, The Forward, named her as one of the country’s 50 top Jewish leaders and The New York Jewish Week identified her as one of the 45 leading young American Jewish leaders in New York. Rabbi Kleinbaum is a graduate of Frisch High, Barnard College (1981), and was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (1990). She has also studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Oxford Centre for Post-Graduate Hebrew Studies in Oxford, England. Rabbi Kleinbaum is a recipient of the Jewish Fund for Justice Woman of Valor Award and New York City’s LGBT Center’s Annual Women’s Event award. She is a member of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, the Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform), and the New York Board of Rabbis.

Friday, August 19 at Shabbat Services

Saturday, August 20, Rabbi Kleinbaum will deliver the D’Var Torah