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Cantor Cheryl Wunch (She/her)
Cantor/Sole Spiritual Leader
Reform;Unaffiliated
Congregation Shir Libeynu
Toronto,
Canada

About

I believe that Judaism is accessible to everyone - all identities and all bodies are holy and loved. Every life-cycle event I officiate is personalized and tailored to what would be meaningful to you. Judaism is SUPPOSED to grow and evolve and expand, and we have the choice to craft our own Jewish lives.

Listing Details

Clergy answered "Yes" to the following

  • Trained on LGBTQ+ identities within past five years
  • Experience in end-of-life care for LGBTQ+ individuals
  • Experience officiating gender-expansive b-mitzvah
  • Familiar with gender-expansive Hebrew liturgical and linguistic options
  • Approaches the presence of LGBTQ+ people as the norm rather than an exception in Jewish communal life
  • Person-centered and LGBTQ+ positive approach to Jewish law and tradition
  • Comfortable consistently using they/them pronouns and neopronouns
  • Speaks or writes regularly on LGBTQ+ themes
  • Experience in pastoral/spiritual care of LGBTQ+ individuals
  • Experience officiating LGBTQ+ weddings

Clergy answered "I'm Still Learning" to the following

  • Experience officiating conversions for transgender and nonbinary individuals with a sensitivity to the wide range of relationships to gender and embodiment that transgender and nonbinary individuals may have
  • Experience celebrating LGBTQ+ specific life-cycle rituals such as coming out and renaming