A Wider Bridge’s Journey to Israel alumnus George Guzman will speak tomorrow (Friday) at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles about his trip to Israel and his conversion to Judaism. Guzman’s talk, which will rely mostly on his unique life story, will be a part of the “Miller Introduction to Judaism” program of AJU, which […]
“What a gift, a magnificent gift to experience Israel exactly as we all are – through and through as authentically Queer people.” – Broch, Seattle, WA. “I didn’t come on the trip expecting to fall in love with Israel, but I did.” – Enzi, Minneapolis, MN Just a few weeks ago, 22 […]
A Wider Bridge LGBT Journey to Israel alumnus Alex Boda continues to look back at a trip in his special blog. On the 6th day of our journey in Israel, we made our way to the north, to the multicultural city of Haifa, Israel’s beautiful port city – about 90 minutes north of Tel Aviv. We […]
Just as our third LGBT journey to Israel is over, we asked Broch from Seattle, one of this year’s group members, to write about the experience, and what is it like coming back home to America after being 10 days in Israel and seeing the country’s openness to LGBT people. I just returned back to Seattle […]
A Wider Bridge LGBT Journey to Israel alumnus Alex Boda continues to look back at a trip in his special blog. Today he looks at Friday in Tel Aviv. There’s no better way to start off your mornings in Israel other than having an “Israeli” breakfast, which is very rich and full of choices, and that’s […]
Alex Boda, one of the participants in this year’s A Wider Bridge’s LGBT trip to Israel, looks back at the journey day-by-day and shares the experiences in a special blog. On the morning of the second day of our journey we awoke at 6:30, ate a light breakfast, packed up, and boarded the bus that […]
Alex Boda, one of the participants in this year’s A Wider Bridge’s LGBT trip to Israel, looks back at the journey day-by-day and shares the experiences in a special blog. It was the 30th of October, 2013. The hustle and bustle was in full swing in Tel Aviv around noon, then all of a sudden […]
A WIDER BRIDGE’S LGBT JOURNEY TO ISRAEL, DAY 10: By now, our group has been to Tel Aviv, Haifa, the Golan Heights and the desert. This weekend marks the grand finale of the trip- Jerusalem. Throughout the trip, members of our group have been tweeting and Facebooking thoughts and pictures that can give us a […]
Cantor Juval Porat, of LA’s LGBT synagogue Beth Chayim Chadashim, is part of the clergy in A Wider Bridge’s 2013 LGBT journey to Israel. In his personal blog he writes about his experiences in Israel. Below is the last entry- but you can go back to the blog in the coming days for more… My […]
During Saturday’s meeting of gay Israeli singer Yehonathan and A Wider Bridge group, we premiered a special pop-up video, describing the popstar’s professional journey to date. Take a look. The video features the song “Now I Know” from the new album ‘Yeho’. Buy the song on iTunes