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Just bleeding-heart bastions of empa- with her husband and two children to Israel in Sharon Kleinbaum, senior rabbi of Congregation perishes during pioneering gender-affirmation thy, inclusion, and equality, right? Well, let me 1970, and lived there for four years. When she Beit Simchat Torah, officiated both ceremonies. surgery (The Danish Girl), a trans man brutally share some typical responses when I speak up returned to the United States, she reconnected The couple retired to Palm Beach County, murdered by transphobes (Boys Don’t Cry), and about missteps in transgender representation with longtime friend Ruth Berman, who had lived Florida, where they have continued to fight for even a madperson performing their own bizarre on Chicago’s stages.