Martin Luther King Jr. Day, on Jan. 21 2019, is a celebration of his life and a reminder that there’s still work to be done in this country for his dream to be fully realized. Besides Columbus Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is the only federal holiday named after a person. That honor alone […]
A Wider Bridge Board Member James Moon explores how AWB is uniquely positioned to confront anti-semitism. With my background, I imagine I am not the type of person that leaps immediately to mind when thinking of the stereotypical Zionist or an A Wider Bridge Board member. I am a secular Christian who grew up in a […]
Professor Gabriel Gomez joined the 2018 AWB LGBTQ Leadership Mission to Israel. Upon returning, he penned this OpEd about his complex family history with Judaism. Despite being curious about Israel, because of some complex personal concerns, I’ve been wary to travel there because a visit could be construed as support for long-standing, Israeli government policies […]
In this op-ed, award-winning writer Perry Brass talks about his lifelong Zionism and the importance of A Wider Bridge. I am more of a Zionist than a Jew. I was born and grew up in Savannah, GA: Southern, Jewish, gay—and impoverished: an interesting hybridization of backgrounds. My father died when I was 11, leaving our […]
Marc Almond, the gay British singer who’s responsible for “Tainted Love,” one of the biggest songs of the 80’s, is coming to Israel again. In an exclusive interview with Israeli media he talked about not giving in to the pressure to skip Israel concerts (“Cultural boycotts punish the wrong people.”) and about his sexuality (“Publicists […]
The New York Pride Parade ended Pride Month with a huge celebration. Among all the happy, colorful celebrants, it was hard not to notice one truck waving blue and white flags. On the truck, along with other celebrants from the community, was Israel’s Consul General in New York, Danny Dayan. The Israeli Consulate Delegation marches […]
Last year I went to the Celebrate Israel Parade for the first time as a spectator and watched with pride as prominent figures like Chuck Schumer and Bill de Blasio marched down 5th Avenue waving Israeli flags in solidarity with the Jewish community. This year, not only will I march, but I have the added […]
This Wednesday we marked the 70th anniversary of Israel’s independence, which incidentally lands a week after Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s a symbolic reminder of how far the Jewish people have come in such a short span of time. Yet seventy years later, the debate over the history of the country continues to divide people across […]
My twenty-something Passover Seder guest didn’t know he could be exactly what he was: both Progressive and a Zionist. We have to do better with our young people. Arafat’s cunning lie, “Zionism is Racism,” is on steroids today, and our young people are being hurt. We live in a time of increasingly anti-Semitic responses to […]
Shai DeLuca-Tamasi is a Canadian interior designer and media personality. Born and raised in Toronto, DeLuca-Tamasi moved to Israel after high school and served in the Israel Defense Forces. He’s an outspoken advocate for Israel and has partnered with the organization CAMERA on Campus, a non-profit whose mandate is to help students disseminate accurate information […]