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Rabbi Elliot Rose Kukla

Rabbi Elliot Rose Kukla has been an activist, writer, organizer and educator for more than a decade. He has taught widely about sexual and gender diversity in Judaism in the US, Canada and Israel. His articles on the intersections between Judaism and justice appear in numerous magazines including Lilith and Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Art and Culture, as well as in anthologies published by New York University Press, Jewish Lights and the Union for Reform Judaism Press. For the last 2 years, Elliot served as the rabbi of the Danforth Jewish Circle, Toronto’s only queer-welcoming and social-justice oriented synagogue.

He recently moved to San Francisco where he will be a resident in Clinical Pastoral Education at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center. Elliot was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2006.