A Wider Bridge: Western States

A Wider Bridge celebrates Pride across the USA! While our official delegation marched with the Zioness Movement and the Israeli ...
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A Wider Bridge presents a series of talks across the U. S. featuring Sara Sweiry and Robin Rosenbaum of Beshela, ...
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A Wider Bridge's Arthur Slepian will be speaking as part of the series Israel 360: Diverse Perspectives on Israel, Explored ...
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A Wider Bridge is sharing our eight greatest achievements of the past year. Modeled after the eight days of Chanukah, we celebrate ...
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During A Wider Brunch 2017, Rabbi Lisa Edwards from Beth Chayim Chadashim in Los Angeles gave an incredible D'var Torah ...
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The song "Ir Shlema" (A Full City) by Dana International has been selected to lead this year's A Wider Brunch, ...
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A Wider Brunch host H. Alan Scott is an outrageously funny writer/comedian based in Los Angeles. In June 2017, Scott traveled ...
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California State Senator Scott Wiener and Former State Senator Mark Leno will be speaking at A Wider Brunch.  This is a ...
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36-year-old attorney Asaf Orr from San Mateo is a Transgender Youth Project staff attorney at NCLR Asaf Orr says transgender ...
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San Francisco LGBT congregation Sha'ar Zahav marks 40 years, and there's no intention to toss out its rainbow flags or stop ...
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“Bears,” Families with young children (including babies with “I love” stickers stuck onto their onesies) and other "experienced native priders” ...
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For many young orthodox people caught up in the struggle to come out as LGBTQ, the root of the problem ...
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Newly founded the Los Angeles Blade published an introduction interview with Rabbi Denise Eger. Rabbi Denise talks about coming out, ...
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Gay Jewish singer-songwriter Troye Sivan will be honored for his LGBT rights advocacy at the 28th annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los ...
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Los Angeles' LGBT synagogue Beth Chayim Chadashim marks 45 years of existence this weekend with a special concert honoring six ...
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Bay Area Jewish LGBTs have condemned the more than 100 anti-Semitic bomb threats that have occurred at Jewish community centers ...
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Amid the national debate over transgender rights and the use of school bathrooms, a number of local Jewish summer camps ...
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Internationally known mini-burger chain, Burgerim, is opening its first Orange County outlet later this year in Orange near the MainPlace ...
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Micha Thau, a senior at Shalhevet High School, spoke at Westwood Village Synagogue on Feb. 8 as part of a ...
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Michael Chertok, president of congregation Sha'ar Zahav, is among congregation members who have offered to open their homes to LGBT ...
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Our very own Yanir Dekel launched a page for "the new generation of gay dads," the first generation of gay ...
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LGBT seniors and HIV-positive people living in long-term care facilities throughout California would be protected from discrimination under a bill ...
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Juval Porat, cantor of LGBT synagogue in Los Angeles Beth Chayim Chadashim, traveled to Thailand to to volunteer at the ...
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Gay Jewish California state Senator Scott Wiener proposed a bill to create a third gender option on driver’s licenses and ...
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Melanie Nathan, a lesbian activist from San Francisco and a friend of A Wider Bridge, wrote this post following President ...
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The acclaimed Ohad Naharin documentary, by Tomer Heymann, is ready to take America by storm next month. Ohad Naharin The ...
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The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) is scheduled to honor in February gay former California State Senator Mark Leno, as ...
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West Hollywood's Congregation Kol Ami is once again offering 2 $2500 college/grad school scholarships for LGBTQ Students and/or children of ...
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American Jewish University alumnus Jacob Rostovsky started a nonprofit that subsidizes surgeries and hormones for transgender people. For transgender people who want ...
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A recent trip to Germany made queer Jewish woman Becca Israel more understanding of her Jewish responsibility. The week after ...
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Eighteen-year-old NCJW LA intern Emily Heaps was reluctant to come out, and then went from being ashamed of who she ...
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Love and acceptance were the day’s watchwords at JQ’s Trans Equality Brunch in Los Angeles; Caro Barkowitz calls for making ...
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Seth Eisen, a Bay Area-based teacher, choreographer and chronicler of LGBT artists, has created “Rainbow Logic,” a performance piece that ...
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On Sunday, November 6, at 3:30 PM, A Wider Bridge co sponsors a screening of the transgender Israeli documentary "The ...
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Read Rabbi Lisa Edwards' inspiring Yom Kippur drash on the value of life and coming out about emotional and spiritual dis-ease ...
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Gay Jewish politician Mark Leno, representing California's 11th State Senate district, finishes his term at the end of November and ...
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Israeli gay activist Gal Alperovitch rediscovered Judaism during his visit to Congregation Sha'ar Zahav while traveling in San Francisco At a ...
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AWB LGBT Mission Alum Joe Goldman, Public Affairs and Civic Engagement Manager at JCRC San Francisco, is part of a ...
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Micha Thau, a senior at Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles, seeks to make it possible to be an observant ...
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Nir Zilberman, a known personality in West Hollywood's local LGBT community, has left the city and went back to live ...
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Sam Goldman was one of three activists recognized at the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund’s annual Day of Philanthropy ...
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An Allies workshop event of Eshel, a national support and advocacy organization for Orthodox LGBTQ Jews that offers programming in ...
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