News about New York’s religious Jewish communities and synagogues.
The influential family now boasts tens of thousands of members, including leading Hasidic rabbis and countless descendants who don't share the family surname.
Leading his first congregation, the public affairs advisor for Jewish Federations of North America hopes to play "a spiritual, emotional, healing kind of role."
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.
