My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.
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I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23.
I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.
I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.
I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.
I searched for answers to life's meaning and, though I was raised a Presbyterian, I converted to Judaism around 1983.
I'm this little Canadian Jewish girl, and I'm living my dream.
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.
I did go to cheder and was a bar mitzvah. We were members of an Orthodox synagogue, although we were not religious. My grandfather was Polish. He came to Ireland in the '30s.