Join A Wider Bridge and LGBTQ and allied supporters of Israel for a community cocktail reception featuring alumni of AWB’s LGBTQ Leadership Missions to Israel. Saturday, March 25 at 7:30 PM RFD Washington 810 7th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001 view event on Facebook Open Wine and Spirits Bar Tickets $18 General Admission / Free for […]
Anthony Russell was using a Jewish text to express an African American experience. Now, that’s his career. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6pwUZ0gUGc A few years ago, Anthony Russell, a 37-year-old professional singer based in Oakland, Calif., chose a new faith and a new name. He converted from Christianity to Judaism, and he became Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell. It felt […]
Joanna Blotner, campaign manager of the paid family and medical leave bill that the D.C. Council recently passed, talks about the path to the passing of the bill, and how it’s designed to be inclusive of LGBTQ families. The D.C. Council recently passed a historic paid family and medical leave bill, on which our friends […]
‘As One’ opera, by Laura Kaminsky, tells a universal story about a transgender woman – inspired by an article she read in The New York Times about a transgender woman, written before marriage equality became federal law **UPDATE: Chicago Premiere, November 16, 17, 18 & 19, 2017 @ 7 PM. More details Most new operas […]
Openly gay Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, Senior Rabbi at Adas Israel Congregation, Washington, D.C., wrote an open letter to President Donald Trump, using his name as a metaphor of hate towards minorities. Dear President Trump, As a Jew, as a rabbi, as a gay man, I have something to say to you: you don’t know me, […]
Michele Amira attended our “Refusing to Choose: LGBTQ and Orthodox in Israel”event at DCJCC. The event was held as an open forum, discussing on the ways in which Modern Orthodox communities are creating room for intersectional Orthodox LGBTQ identities, both in Israel and the diaspora. In the Talmud it says, “Whomever saves a life, it […]
A network of LGBT Jewish D.C. groups are joining forces for “Oh Gaydel, Gaydel, Gaydel! 2016’s Queery Chanukah Happy Hour” on Thursday, Dec. 22 from 6-9 p.m. at Number Nine (1435 P St., N.W.). Three years ago Ben Rosenbaum volunteered to chair Nice Jewish Boys and says, “It has been a blast creating a fun […]
Peri Feldstein, a student at Washington University who coordinated the event with Israeli gay rights champion Etai Pinkas, answers “pinkwashing” claims by Israel-haters. Etai Pinkas, a renowned champion of human rights and social justice, visited our campus this past week to share his experiences as an Israeli environmentalist and LGBTQIA* activist. Etai spoke to over 100 […]
Monica Sass, President of Nice Jewish Queers at Washington University, is sad about the fact that many students in the Wash. U. community delegitimize the work individuals such as Etai Pinkas have done to advance LGBT equality in Israel – just because they disagree with Israeli government’s political decisions. During the event “Marriage Equality and LGBTQIA* […]
Publicly gay Rabbi Gil Steinlauf of Washington’s Adas Israel, used the stage at Yom Kippur to talk about the rise of anti-Semitism on the left. In his sermon, Rabbi Steinlauf mentioned the incident at the A Wider Bridge Creating Change event in Chicago in January. This past summer, the national Black Lives Matter movement released […]