Updates and Opinion from the AWB Team
A Letter from our Board Chair and CEO, Alan Schwartz regarding our response to COVID-19 Dear Friends, Like everyone, the events of the past couple weeks have been dizzying for all of us at A Wider Bridge. First, we wish a Refuah Shleimah, a complete healing, to everyone in our community in Israel, in North America, and around […]
Over the course of Black History Month in February, A Wider Bridge alumn Nik Harris posted a picture and paragraph each day of a key QTPOC (queer/trans person of color) in US history. We are pleased to be able to share these with you. Nik is currently the LGBTQ Consumer Advocate for Florida Commissioner Nikki […]
MEET THE SLATES AND THEIR POSITIONS ON LGBTQ ISSUES ABOUT THE 38TH WORLD ZIONIST CONGRESS ELECTIONS A Wider Bridge (AWB), the pro-Israel LGBTQ organization, is proud to present the first-ever World Zionist Congress voter guide for LGBTQ Jews and our allies! The guide presents the relevant position statements of each of the 15 […]
A Wider Bridge condemns the recent statements made by Israel’s Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz against the LGBTQ community. Rabbi Peretz recently implied that becoming LGBTQ is a result of an unhealthy and unnatural upbringing. He has also endorsed conversion therapy in the past. We stand in support with the LGBTQ Israeli community and with […]
A Wider Bridge’s Executive Director Tyler Gregory penned this op-ed in the Washington Blade in response to the rising anti-Semitism in the US, and in particular, the spate of anti-Semitic incidences in the New York City area during Channukah 2019. Seventy-five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, deadly attacks on Jewish homes, businesses, and places of […]
Read our message from Chair of the Board Alan Schwartz: “This holiday season is a time for gratitude, and a time for hope. Personally, I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to lead an organization as vital as A Wider Bridge. My gratitude extends to the thousands of North Americans — LGBTQ and allies, Jews […]
Jordyn Wright (Facebook) A Wider Bridge stands in solidarity with McGill University student Jordyn Wright who is being targeted for her Jewish and pro-Israel identities. Jordyn is being pressured to resign as Student Society President should she take a planned trip to Israel with Hillel. This blatant antisemitism echoes McGill’s shameful past and illustrates its […]
Our historic LGBTQ Clergy Leadership Mission to Israel and the West Bank has just concluded, with 14 diverse LGBTQ clergy members from Protestant denominations who were on a joint mission in partnership with the Israel Action Network (IAN). On the Israel/Lebanon Border We had an inspiring week – visiting with LGBTQ leaders in Tel Aviv, […]
A Wider Bridge is deeply concerned about Secretary of State Pompeo’s statement regarding West Bank Settlements. We firmly support a two-state solution that both preserves Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state, and affords Palestinians a viable pathway to self-determination. We are also disappointed in recent remarks by Prime Minister Netanyahu attacking Arab-Israeli leaders […]
A Wider Bridge Mission Alumnus Gabriel Quinto speaking at CA-DEM A Wider Bridge is grateful for California Democratic Party leaders and delegates who, at their recent convention in Long Beach, rejected divisive anti-Israel amendments to the party platform. These amendments would have denied Israel’s existence as a Jewish and Democratic state, and would have endorsed […]