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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.

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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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