A Wider Bridge

We interviewed Sara and Robin about their recent trip to the USA with the AWB Generation Zahav Tour. The tour may be over, but the fight for LGBTQ seniors’ rights has just begun! Read more at AWiderBridge.Org

When a prominent Israel rabbi declared that “homosexuality should be eradicated like AIDS,” Israel's LGBTQ community took action. Activists Zehorit Sorek and Avichai Abarbanel fought back with love, using the "Our Faces" campaign funded by A Wider Bridge's Impact Grant. Read today on A Wider Bridge: https://tinyurl.com/y7fqm629

Curious? Israeli activist Ayelet Enisman explains what it means to be aromantic. https://tinyurl.com/y939fjyv

Evita Dance Bar - אויטה בר

😡 Gay leader Imri Kalmann is now suing the Orthodox Rabbis' Organization: Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/y9qyu939

Tour guide Alice Marcu works at the Holocaust museum Yad Vashem, where she specializes in LGBTQ history. She tells the once neglected story of the persecutions of homosexuals during the Holocaust.  Read more.

Helen Elbaum, an orthodox mother, moved the entire Israeli public with her speech in her son’s gay wedding. Rabbi Binyamin (Benny) Lau, a famous orthodox rabbi, came to congratulate: “the idea that two people seek to enter into a marital union is, in my eyes, a rescue from death to life,” he said. Read more.

Avi Buskila, “Shalom Achshav” (‘Peace Now’) leader announced that he will run for the leadership of the left wing party Meretz. “It is our duty to take the reins to defeat nationalism and to create a strong democratic reality.” Read more

After years of frustrating struggle, a victory for the lesbian community: The Family Court in Petah Tikva ruled Sunday that the female partner of a woman who gives birth can be registered as a parent from the moment of birth. read more

Victory! A pilot scheme beginning in Q2 2018 will allow gay men to donate blood. Previously, gay men were only allowed to donate if they hadn’t had sex in the previous 12 months. read more

In a post that went viral on Israeli social media, fourth grade teacher Brahmi Michaeli tells about his experience coming out to his students. Encountering initial reactions of fear, Brahmi managed to change some views on homosexuality. “I call upon all the LGBTQ educators among us to be courageous and join me, to come out to the students, to create a sincere, sensitive and teaching discourse,” he writes. read more

On Channel 10, acclaimed TV journalist Yael Dan aired a story about transgender parents, including the personal story of Nina Halevy, who changed her sex and maintained her relationship and her family. Unfortunately, unlike Nina, many transgender parents pay a heavy price including losing contact with their children, because of their gender identity. Read more

A recent photography project documented members of Israel’s trans community in iconic Tel Aviv and Jerusalem locations. The photos were part of a report, launched on the 2017 Transgender Day of Remembrance, that presented the current state of the trans community in the fields of employment, medicine, personal security, religion and more. see more

AWB’s Digital Media Manager Ronit Bezalel blogs about supporting the lesbian owned R&R DineR restaurant in Jerusalem, which is under daily attack from homophobic ultra-religious Orthodox neighbors. Read more