2009 Press
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum Strikes Out Against Religion Based Bigotry (From May 2009 Rally in Response to Upholding of Proposition 8 by California State Supreme Court)
Rabbi Kleinbaum spoke out against bigotry defended as religious belief during a rally in Union Square on May 27, 2009. The rally followed the upholding by the California State Supreme Court of Proposition 8, which banned marriage between same sex couples.
Rabbi Kleinbaum to Attend Chanukah Reception at White House
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum is on her way to the White House to celebrate the holiday of Chanukah at the official holiday celebration with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.
Chanukah at the Obama White House 2009
"It was awe-inspiring to be in the Obama White House for its first Chanukah celebration."
Rabbi Kleinbaum June 2009 Op-Ed From The Advocate: Signs of Faith, "God Hates Hate"
Many have argued people should ignore the members of Westboro Baptist Church because "they are fringe." But Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum says the hate that fuels those "fringe" people can lead to murder.
Straight believers find a home in gay churches, synagogues
WASHINGTON — When Andi Kasarsky's husband died six years ago, members of her synagogue came to sit shiva — the customary Jewish ritual of mourning — with her.
They came in shifts for days, many of them strangers, to share her grief. And although Kasarsky was mourning her husband, many of the grievers were gay.
Manhattan synagogue makes $10G off of Westboro Baptist Church protest
A Manhattan synagogue turned a visit from hate-spewing demonstrators into a lucrative fund-raiser Sunday.
BY Erin Einhorn and Irving Dejohn DAILY NEWS WRITERS Monday, June 22nd 2009, 5:01 AM
Messages of Hate Met by Scorn and Shrugs
“The fact that this organization targeted New York City for a weekend where they could go synagogue to synagogue spewing anti-Semitism and also homophobia is just the height of ignorance and hatred,” said the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn , who was one of more than 100 counterprotesters gathered Sunday morning at the Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, a gay synagogue in Greenwich Village.
By A.G. SULZBERGER and COLIN MOYNIHAN NYTIMES.COM Published: June 21, 2009
Rainbow Chupah
If they’d met a generation ago, Shayna Peavey, a cantor, and Melissa De Lowe, a first-grade Judaic studies teacher, might very well have fallen in love. They might have waltzed across Israel together, setting off for little-known destinations in their leisure time — as they did when they first met as Hebrew Union College students abroad in Jerusalem. They might have regrouped in New York City, where Peavey, now 30, finished her cantorial studies, and De Lowe, 27, moved after dating Peavey for three months in Israel.
Judaism Offers a Wide Range of Views on Same-Sex Marriage
Opponents of same-sex marriage have cited the Bible and other Judeo-Christian dogma to portray gay and lesbian couples as inherently "immoral" and therefore, not deserving of the rights and benefits which society doles out to heterosexual couples.
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