On the 3rd and 4th day of our trip, we continued to tour Jerusalem: visiting the national holocaust museum (Yad v’Shem), meeting some of Jerusalem’s LGBTQ leaders at the Alliance Guesthouse, viewing the Israel museum and spending time in the colorful Machne Yehuda market. Outside the Book of the Shrine View from the Mount of […]
The World Jewish Congress teamed up with A Wider Bridge for a special discussion on the experiences of pro-Israel LGBT activists and tools for bringing Zionism back into the LGBT discourse. Read the WJC’s recap of this important event below. From left: Assaf Weiss, Nadiya al-Noor, Tye Gregory, and Mark Joseph Stern. (c) Shahar Azran […]
A Wider Bridge Mission Alumni Tony Lima and Cindy Brown, in partnership with SAVE and Lambda Living, have created an upcoming community conversation on Pinkwashing and Anti-Semitism. Sunday October 1, 2017 5pm CIC Miami (SAVE Offices) 1951 Northwest 7th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33136 Tony Lima and his husband Yonel in Israel during the A Wider Bridge […]
A Wider Bridge mourns the loss of Edie Windsor, a true hero of the modern movement for LGBT equality. Her determination and perseverance to fight for what she knew was right brought about an end to the odious “Defense of Marriage Act” and paved the way for the later historic decision that brought full marriage […]
Israel’s Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs has reversed its opposition to allowing same-sex couples to adopt. Haim Katz, Welfare and Social Services Minister of Israel (photo: Eyal Yitzhar) Israel’s Channel 2 News reported Tuesday evening that the Ministry of Welfare, at the request of Minister Haim Katz, said there is no problem in principle […]
LGBTQ Jews and allies marched proudly in the Halifax Pride Parade (Nova Scotia, Canada) on Saturday, July 22. The March came after a controversy last fall at Halifax Pride’s annual general meeting, in which BDS activists tried and failed to remove all mentions and signs about Israel from the parade. A Wider Bridge was proud […]
Back in January, we launched A Wider Bridge Impact, our organization fundraising arm to financially advance and support the struggle of the LGBTQ community in Israel. Our first project, The Orthodox Visibility Project, aimed to help the religious LGBTQ organizations fund a visibility campaign in the media. See the outcome! “Our Faces, Together” The Orthodox […]
Using words like “shock,” “alarm” and “frustration,” LGBT Jewish leaders in the U.S. said they were stunned by the news that two Israeli government ministries had signed off on “shockingly biased” policies making it extremely difficult for same-sex couples to adopt children in Israel. This week, the state told the High Court of Justice that it […]
San Francisco’s Jewish magazine published an article on the leadership change at A Wider Bridge, including an interview with the incoming Executive Director, Tye Gregory, on the transition, the work of the organization and our now world renowned LGBTQ trips to Israel. Outgoing A Wider Bridge executive director Arthur Slepian (left) with his successor, Tye […]
The Bay Area Reporter, the nation’s oldest and highest circulation LGBT news weekly serving San Francisco’s LGBTQ communities, covered A Wider Bridge’s leadership change announcement in an article published both on the online and the paper versions of the magazine A Wider Bridge announced its founder and leader will step down next year. Arthur Slepian […]