page_title: Congregation Habonim Toronto
section_title: Notable figures
hierarchical_section_title: Congregation Habonim Toronto / Notable figures
caption_attribution_description: English: Toronto rabbi Reuben Slonim
context_page_description: Congregation Habonim Toronto, founded in 1954, is a liberal reform synagogue located at 5 Glen Park Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and one of the first Holocaust refugee/survivor congregations to develop in Canada. Although currently independent of any official denomination, its early founders modeled the synagogue on the example of early Reform Judaism in Germany.
context_section_description: Some of the notable figures associated with the Congregation are Esther Ghan Firestone, the first female cantor in Canada, Rabbi Reuben Slonim (1914–2000) (author, and also associate editor of The Toronto Telegram), known for his outspoken views on the Israeli-Arab conflict, Cantor Henry Weingluck, a well known artist who was a pupil of Max Liebermann, and Avrum Rosensweig, founder of Ve'ahavta, the Canadian Jewish Humanitarian Relief Organization. Since 1988, its religious leader has been writer and filmmaker  Eli Rubenstein, leader of the Canadian March of the Living and March of Remembrance and Hope programs.
caption: Toronto rabbi Reuben Slonim who served at Congregation Habonim for 23 years, from 1960-1983
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