A Wider Bridge hosted a discussion with Yariv Mozer, director of “The Invisible Men,” which screened at Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival in June 2012 and won its jury award for Outstanding Documentary. The film is a compelling documentary about the lives of Palestinian gay men hiding in Tel Aviv. Yariv Mozer, a […]
Join us on a ten night journey that will take us to the desert, Jerusalem, the Galilee and Tel Aviv. We’ll travel from history to modernity. Come find your place in Israel’s future. This is A Wider Bridge’s second trip for LGBTQ Jews, partners, friends, and allies. Here is just a sample of what you […]
May 2012 — One thousand party-goers got their dance on Tel Aviv-style when Maya Jakobson, a top mashup DJ and party producer on Tel Aviv’s LGBT party scene, DJ’ed a mashup party in SF. Maya is one of the owners of a Tel Aviv based mashup party line called A.D.D. She has also produced some mashups of […]
May 2012 — Three Short Films and Discussion with LGBT Leaders and Cultural Advocates from Tel Aviv A San Francisco audience of 40 was treated to a taste of Tel Aviv’s much discussed LGBT cultural scene with three short films by some leading independent LGBT filmmakers. Two of Tel Aviv’s leading LGBT activists, Anat Nir […]
April 2012 — Elinor Sidi, the Executive Director of Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance (JOH), share the remarkable work of her organization with groups in Los Angeles and the Bay Area. JOH is the flagship Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender organization in Jerusalem and its only LGBT center. JOH organizes the Jerusalem […]
A Wider Bridge is pleased to be partnering with AUSFI (American University Students for Israel), American University Hillel and other campus organizations to bring events and activities about LGBT Israel to the American University campus. Our partnership began November, 2011 with an Out in Israel Month including a November 9 presentation by the Aguda and […]
November 2011 — Israel’s Big Brother co-host Assi Azar was selected by “Out” magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential LGBT people in 2009. With his career already underway he came out as a gay man in 2005, and has used his visibility to speak out for the LGBT community, particularly following the […]
November, 2011 — Anat Avissar and Mike Hamel of the Aguda, Israel’s first LGBT organization, toured the US, speaking at American University, UC Berkeley, the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, and the American Jewish Committee. They spoke about the differing needs of Israeli LGBTQ people of all sectors – including LGBTQ women, Arabs, Jews, Palestinians, Bedouins, […]
June, 2011 — A Wider Bridge hosted a discussion with Israeli director Tomer Heymann, whose film “The Queen Has No Crown” screened at Frameline film festival in 2011. Heymann, whose other films include “Paper Dolls” and “I Shot My Love,” is a noted documentary filmmaker in Israel and internationally.