![]() This later morphed into Kulanu, the Jewish LGBT group based out of Hillel and the Wolfond Centre for Jewish Campus Life at the University of Toronto, with UJA and donor support. We won at the BC and Ontario Courts of Appeal, Supreme Court, and Parliament of Canada, and yes, it all started in Hamilton.Īround that time, I had already founded the Jewish Gay and Lesbian Fund at the Jewish Foundation of Toronto, because Toronto’s former LGBT Jewish group, Keshet Shalom, folded just after 9/11, and we needed a base and community for those like us in Toronto, particularly to advocate for our needs. ![]() Cheri DiNovo, networking with the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies, appointed to the Canadian Jewish Congress as Canada’s first openly gay representative, and had begun to form our unbeatable Coalition of Canadian Liberal Rabbis for Same-Sex Marriage with the assistance of Rabbi Irwin Zeplowitz of Temple Anshe Sholom, and his rabbinic colleagues across Canada. Amid stories, songs, homemade latkes and dreidel games, we learned to be all of who we are.īy Chanukah 2001, I was active at Beth Tzedec, regularly published in pro-Israel advocacy in the left and alternative and LGBT press, speaking on U of T campus radio as “Jewish Contributing Editor” to “The Radical Reverend Show” hosted by Rev. Both were proud symbols of our Jewish identity in Hamilton, and both, to my mind, were miraculous. When we were kids, I remember the electric menorah with the orange lights in the steamy window of Hamilton Kosher, just next to the old rotisserie for the barbeque chicken. ![]() Once upon a time, at the Hamilton Hebrew Academy, we learned that Chanukah was a miracle that should be celebrated largely and publicly whenever possible. By Joanne Cohen, aka Solly the Butcher’s Daughter
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