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University Mariachi Ensemble
and the Mariachi Correcaminos;
and former Florida Rep. Ileana
Ros-Lehtinen, who was born
in Cuba and was chairwoman
of the House
Foreign Affairs
Committee from 2011-2013.
During the hour-long conver-
sation, attended by nearly 500
people, the panelists gave brief
histories of their families and
discussed their advocacy and
unique insights into Israel’
s right
to exist as a sovereign nation
state, and how these insights can
leverage pro-Israel advocacy,
outreach and support within
these emerging communities.
Also discussed was the potential
implications at the polls, and
how this can impact Hispanic/
Latino turn-out with multiple-
issue voting.
One exciting development was
an invitation from Chad Martin,
director of the northeast region
at Israel Ministry of Tourism, to
connect in developing heritage
tours for Bnei Anousim.
I was personally gratified from
participating on this panel, by
the international community’
s
interest in the new diaspora’
s
emergence and being a spokes-
woman for it. Shortly after my
return from AIPAC to Michigan,
Portugal’
s Parliament designated
March 31 as Memorial Day for
victims of the Inquisition.
Elizabeth C. Kincaid is an Oakland
County resident. She attends Keter
Torah Synagogue.
letters
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Jerusalem Gay
Bar History
The first gay bar was the Lulu, a
hole-in-the-wall, back in the ’
90s
(“Jerusalem’
s Only Official Gay
Bar,
” April 2, page 36). The Lulu
was located in a similar “com-
pound” to that of the “district” to
which the Video pertains. That
same compound had anoth-
er, bigger bar called the Laila,
where the Lulu’
s drag queen
would hold LGBTQ parties on
Thursdays.
Then there was the Shushan,
which saw the rise of the
Jerusalem drag scene under the
reign of some of Israel’
s biggest
drag names to date. Then, after a
couple of years of gay bar hiatus,
the Mikveh was opened. There
were other attempts at opening
gay bars in JTown, but the city’
s
small (and largely closeted)
LGBTQ community could never
support more than one estab-
lishment.
— “EG,” website comment
Writer Michael Elias responds:
“Finding out about the Lulu
through this comment after
finding
nothing about the bar
through research was insightful
and served to shed a light on
how LGBT history in Israel is still
largely inaccessible and passed
down through a mostly oral tra-
dition.
”
Correction:
The Origami Frog Bookmark
instructions (“Get Crafty for
Passover,
” April 2, pg. 32) were
provided by Maya Oren-Dahan,
whose Instagram is @mayas_
crafty_world.
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