For the past week, a delegation of Israeli women have been in Louisville, Kentucky’s largest city, discussing gender equality. Nine Israeli women have been traveling the country as part of a State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program, sponsored locally by the World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana. They’ve met different groups, politicians and […]
Hundreds of protesters filled Tel Aviv’s streets with cries against rape culture. Women wearing just bras or bikini tops march through city center to demonstrate against widespread sexual harassment in Israel Hundreds of scantily clad women protested against rape culture Friday on Tel Aviv’s promenade many with shrill whistles colorful her. The city’s annual “SlutWalk” […]
Rabbi Mark Sameth says that gender-bending language in the Hebrew Bible was the subject of commentary long before the twentieth century. We find gender-bending language in the Torah, in the greater Hebrew Bible, as well as in later Hebrew literature. And I am hardly the first one to notice this. Bible scholars, critics, and translators […]
Transgender activist Niki Sever thinks that gender division in sports is superfluous, even in sports that require physical effort. Because this division outright rejects transgender, genderqueer and intersex people- they are forced to retire from competitions. Mac Beggs, professional boxer. From leisure groups in community centers, through professional leagues, to international competitions, in every sport […]
Great news for the trans community in Israel! The Ministry of Health announced that as of yesterday (Wednesday) people can send a sex change form to be filled in by a doctor at the touch of a button. MK Merav Ben-Ari and Executive Director Maavarim, Elisha Alexander, at the final State Control Committee meeting The […]
Blue and White Pride‘s new project “Pride x2 to Israel” has been criticized during its opening event and after, by LGBT people who disagree about the role of the Israeli army. Omer Nahmany, the project’s Executive Director, addresses the criticism, saying that the project is not about the political role of the army, but about […]
Joanna Valente from the Jewish parenting website Kveller says that ‘Dads Who Play Barbie’ totally get how parenting should be – breaking gender roles and stereotypes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGPbKS8XUMY Over the past few years, Mattel has been doing a lot of work to modernize the brand and change the way we view gender. Lately, the brand has been […]
2016 hasn’t been easy. While this year the seemingly impossible became reality on a very regular basis, A Wider Bridge kept collecting stories that are on the intersection between LGBT, Israel and Jewish life, posting them on our website daily, for the community to comment, share and get inspired. Out of the hundred of thousands of page views on […]
DanVeg, a known transgender queer activist, took her own life on Friday, leaving the Israeli LGBTQ community in shock. “DanVeg has fought for many years,” wrote her friends in the announcement of her passing, “She fought transphobia and homophobia, she fought against sexism, racism and boredom, and like many of us, she fought with chasms […]
Hunter Keith, a 17-year-old transgender teen and a longtime participant in Keshet’s LGBTQ and Ally Teen Shabbaton, appears in the current issue of the National Geographic, titled ‘Gender Revolution.’ In the photo, Hunter is holding his skateboard, which prominently features Keshet’s own “LGBTQ Jewish Safe Zone” sticker. Hunter Keith’s picture was published as a part […]