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🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ A Wider Bridge mobilizes the LGBTQ community to fight antisemitism and support Israel and its LGBTQ community🏳️‍🌈 ✡️

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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
A new support group provides safe space for our LGBTQ+ health care providers (therapists, social workers, doctors, nurses) to share, contemplate & support each other during these times where antisemitism is raging even within our own community. Begins 11/7 awiderbridge.org/event/jewish...
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Jewish LGBTQ Health Providers Coping with Antisemitism Support Group – A Wider Bridge
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Queers Against Antisemitism (QAA) fellows are our regional leaders amplifying queer voices against antisemitism in their communities - Peter Fox is our QAA Fellow in New York! awiderbridge.org/ny
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New York – A Wider Bridge
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
If you live in in Philadelphia/South Jersey join us for Shabballoween Party with music, costumes, drinks, and games. A lively time and mingling with friends and new acquaintances. sign up: awiderbridge.org/event/shabba...
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
For many in the queer community, being Jewish / Israeli can bring moments of unease in spaces that should feel safe. Let’s gather together to build our community, clarity & courage. How to Interrupt Antisemitism Without Losing Allies in San Francisco, 11/2 awiderbridge.org/event/how-to...
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How to Interrupt Antisemitism Without Losing Allies [San Francisco] – A Wider Bridge
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"Pride for Israel is more than a conference — it is a declaration that love, unity, and truth are stronger than hate." - AWB Chair Daniel Hernandez @Algemeiner www.algemeiner.com/2025/10/22/s...
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StandWithUs Leads ‘Pride for Israel’ LGBTQ+ Conference in Los Angeles Set for Nov. 9
Jews of Pride members are seen marching in the Pride parade 2025, part of LGBTQ+ community’s Midsumma Festival. Photo: Alexander …
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Tomorrow: Our event with Miss Israel in Miami: awiderbridge.org/event/exposi...
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Torah, Jewish literature from various time periods, and LGBTQ+ commentary. Weekly meetings starting Thursday awiderbridge.org/event/queeri...
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"For years Hamas received billions of dollars in foreign aid via the UN and instead of building up Gaza to be a jewel of the Mediterranean they built an underground city of terror with tunnels..." AWB alum Jackie Bruckman reflects following hostages return blogs.timesofisrael.com/holding-my-b...
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The Blogs: Holding My Breath
From the blog of Jackie Bruckman at The Times of Israel
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Tomorrow! Learn from acclaimed LGBTQ Jewish author and activist Ben M. Freeman in this engaging session about what it means to be a proud LGBTQ in today’s world, grounded in our shared truth and history. awiderbridge.org/event/the-je...
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
If you live in the Bay Area - come and learn about Queer Jewish-Palestinian relationships in the city of Haifa - San Francisco's sister city. 10/23 at 7pm awiderbridge.org/event/tales-...
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
"A Wider Bridge believes that lasting peace — one grounded in justice, security, and mutual recognition — will come only through moral clarity, compassion, and the courage to reject extremism." - A Wider Bridge statement following the return of the living hostages awiderbridge.org/hostages-are...
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Hostages Are Finally Home: A Statement from A Wider Bridge – A Wider Bridge
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
What does it mean to be a prophet? What does prophecy demand of us today? In this session, we’ll sketch a “job description” of a prophet, and explore who the Hebrew prophets were. awiderbridge.org/event/social...
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Pride for Israel -- a full day conference to celebrate the pro-Israel and the Jewish LGBTQ+ community. Los Angeles, November 9: prideforisrael.planningpod.com
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
If you live in New York join us for an LGBTQ community-wide Sukkot party this Sunday! Party is for 21+ and starts at 7pm More info: awiderbridge.org/event/annual...
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🙏 Thank you Danielle Solzman for keeping the A Wider Bridge flag visible! Read the conversation with @yuvaldavid.bsky.social solzyatthemovies.com/2025/09/29/y...
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Yuval David on Jewish Identity and Advocacy in Hollywood - Solzy at the Movies
Yuval David discusses Jewish identity, Hollywood hypocrisy, selective activism, and the importance of speaking out against antisemitism.
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Antisemitism LGBTQ+ Support group starts this Friday! We invite you to a special safe space for our community to share, contemplate and support each other during these times where antisemitism is raging even within our own LGBTQ+ community. awiderbridge.org/group/
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AntiSemitism LGBTQ+ Support Group – A Wider Bridge
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
THIS WEEKEND in Philly 😍 we take a moment to reflect on our mistakes from the previous year; any negative baggage that we carry around every day; negative emotions (some resulting from the Antisemitism we experience more these days) awiderbridge.org/event/tashli...
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Tashlich Hike [Philly / NJ] – A Wider Bridge
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
This Weekend! Join A Wider Bridge and our Queers Against Antisemitism Fellow in the Bay Area, Jamie Haft, for a casual get-together that’s all about queer joy, Jewish pride, and connection: awiderbridge.org/event/queer-...
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Queer New Year Pizza Party [Bay Area] – A Wider Bridge
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This October, A Wider Bridge and Jewish Community Mental Health Initiative (JCMHI) host a support group for our community to share, contemplate and support each other during these times where antisemitism is raging even within our own LGBTQ+ community awiderbridge.org/event/antise...
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AntiSemitism LGBTQ+ Support Group – A Wider Bridge
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
NEW! AntiSemitism LGBTQ+ Support Group providing a special safe space for our community to share, contemplate and support each other during these times where antisemitism is raging even within our own LGBTQ+ community: awiderbridge.org/group/
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AntiSemitism LGBTQ+ Support Group – A Wider Bridge
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
“The Jews: An Indigenous People:” author chat with Ben M. Freeman on Monday 9/8: awiderbridge.org/event/the-je... Learn from Ben in this engaging session about what it means to be a proud LGBTQ in today’s world, grounded in our shared truth and history.
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“The Jews: An Indigenous People:” AWB Author Chat with Ben M. Freeman – A Wider Bridge
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Watch now! Queer Inclusion in Judaism with Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi is now available on YouTube in case you missed it. Here is the recording for the session: lnkd.in/g-FnWcem
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Looking for the perfect way to show your pride this High Holy Days? 🏳️‍🌈✨ From LGBTQ+ Jewish kippot to A Wider Bridge flags, our store has it all—now on sale! awiderbridge.org/store/
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A Wider Bridge Store – A Wider Bridge
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi, Ph.D., combines Jewish text, queer theory, and personal experience to address how issues of gender, sex, and sexuality affect us, our communities, and our Judaism. Join this free webinar on August 27! More info/registration: awiderbridge.org/event/why-qu...
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
In a brave first column of a three-part series, AWB Mission alum Danielle Feldman opens up about her breast cancer diagnosis. Refuah Shleima ❤️🙌 blogs.timesofisrael.com/words-that-c...
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The Blogs: Words that could flip your world: A medical odyssey
From the blog of Danielle Feldman at The Times of Israel
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Why Queer Inclusion Matters in Judaism: Free webinar about gender, sex, and sexuality in Judaism. Come learn from the wisdom of Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi, Ph.D. awiderbridge.org/event/why-qu...
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Let’s explore why queer inclusion matters in Judaism: Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi, Ph.D., combines Jewish text, queer theory, and personal experience to address how issues of gender, sex, and sexuality affect us, our communities & Judaism. Wednesday 8/27 12pm ET awiderbridge.org/event/why-qu...
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Why Queer Inclusion Matters in Judaism – A Wider Bridge
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Learn author and activist Ben M. Freeman in this engaging session about what it means to be a proud LGBTQ in today’s world, grounded in our shared truth and history. awiderbridge.org/event/the-je...
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This Sunday we screen the documentary The First Lady in San Francisco. The movie tells the incredible story of Efrat Tilma, a trailblazer, one of Israel's first publicly #trans women. If you're in the area don't miss this! awiderbridge.org/event/screen...
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Screening: The First Lady [San Francisco] – A Wider Bridge
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Our Interim Executive Director, Rabbi Denise Eger, spoke with the @jewishjournal.bsky.social about the work of A Wider Bridge in SoCal, specifically in San Francisco and San Diego, where the #Antisemitism and anti-Israel voices have been shockingly loud jewishjournal.com/community/ra...
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
@menhavingbabies.bsky.social We’re launching our brand new Wellness Series with Yoga @ the Park ❤️ starting with Brooklyn tomorrow (7/30) at 7pm - more info: awiderbridge.org/event/yoga-t... #lgbtq #jewish
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
We’re launching our brand new Wellness Series with Yoga @ the Park, in NYC: 30/7 Brooklyn: awiderbridge.org/event/yoga-t... 8/4 Manhattan: awiderbridge.org/event/yoga-t...
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Special Afternoon with Filmmakers and Activist Efrat Tilma: watch the documentary about of one of the first publically transgender women in Israel awiderbridge.org/event/screen...
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Screening: The First Lady [San Francisco] – A Wider Bridge
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
“I go over to look at the TV, just to watch... all of a sudden... you see one bomb go and land and explode in Tel Aviv. It landed and blew up.” AWB alum Marty Rouse recalls the time he was stuck in Tel Aviv at the beginning of the Israel-Iran war www.washingtonblade.com/2025/07/03/a...
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Activist recalls experience in Tel Aviv after Israel-Iran war began
Marty Rouse was part of Jewish Federations of North America Pride mission
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Combat AntiSemitism Movement published an article that summarizes antisemitic incidents in this past Pride Month, and included the A Wider Bridge report. Read here: combatantisemitism.org/studies-repo...
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Incidents of Antisemitic Hate Targeting Jewish and Pro-Israel Communities Mar Pride Month | Combat Antisemitism Movement
During Pride Month in June, the Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) by CAM monitored a series of incidents indicating an apparent post-October 7th trend of
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
“I didn’t choose to be gay—I discovered I was.” Bishop Bishop Joseph Tolton's powerful journey as a Black, gay pastor is reshaping what faith and pride look like. Read more about this A Wider Bridge mission alum: amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/06...
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Gay by the grace of God: A Black pastor’s journey
Openly gay minister named Bishop Joseph Tolton is at the forefront of the movement of African and Black American faith leaders.
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
‘Hands Off Iran’ movement is erasure of Iranian people, not solidarity. It's support for "regime that tortures its citizens." - Important op-ed by Iranian Jew @matthewnouriel.bsky.social 🙏https://www.losangelesblade.com/2025/06/26/im-a-queer-iranian-jew-why-i-stand-with-israel-during-this-conflict/
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
"The need for queer pride will not end on June 30. The attacks on queer people’s rights and safety certainly won’t cease at the end of the month." - Thank you, Rahel Knight jweekly.com/2025/06/10/c...
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FIRST PERSON | Can queer Jews count on you when Pride Month is over?
Pride events are known for vibrant atmospheres, but this year feels different as we return to fighting government-led oppression.
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
"Criticism of Israel is not antisemitism. But it is antisemitism when Jews are shamed, blamed and scapegoated unless they denounce who they are, ignore their traumas or erase their identity." - Rev Megan Bohrer in a new op-ed: jweekly.com/2025/06/25/p...
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LOCAL VOICE | Pride can't be radically inclusive if antisemitism is tolerated
Criticism of Israel isn't antisemitic. But it is antisemitic when Jews are shamed, blamed and scapegoated unless they denounce who they are.
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
'Transgender People for Palestine' rally is planned this evening in San Francisco. Rabbi Denise Eger considers this “absurd” - jweekly.com/2025/06/26/s...
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S.F. Trans March calls event an ‘act of resistance’ for Palestinians
Participants are encouraged to bring Palestinian flags and union posters “to build power against our common enemy!”
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🌈✡️ Show your Jewish Pride at Chicago Pride! Let’s make sure our voices and symbols are SEEN and HEARD. Sunday 6/29 at 11am, at Halsted & Roscoe To keep updated join our Chicago Meetup Whatsapp group: chat.whatsapp.com/E09zrrucrPc9...
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This Sunday, June 29, we're marching in the NYC Pride as A Wider Bridge / Queers Against Antisemitism — with pride, purpose, and QUEER JOY💪🏳️‍🌈 And before that - we're hosting a fabulous Pride Brunch! sign up: awiderbridge.org/our-events/ #NYCPride #QueerJoy #AWiderBridge
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
JPride in San Diego - a truly inclusive Pride event! Come and meet us at our table! July 18-20: www.lfjcc.org/about/liveup...
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
WATCH: Rabbi Denise Eger teaches us how to use Jewish sacred texts to advocate for substantive change in Judaism toward LGBTQ+ inclusion and celebration - full recorded session now available: awiderbridge.org/event/judais... #pridemonth #jewishpride
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Judaism and LGBTQ+ Identity with Rabbi Eger – A Wider BridgeVirtual EventVirtual Event
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
“Pride means nothing if it leaves some behind” - by Colorado State Representative @briannatitone.bsky.social in powerful call @denvergazette.com to build truly inclusive Pride Jewish LGBTQ+ individuals feel safe and welcomed this month: denvergazette.com/opinion/colu...
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GUEST OPINION: Pride means nothing if it leaves some behind
Pride has always been about more than parades and parties. It’s about showing up — boldly, visibly, and without apology — in a world that too often asks us to
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Bishop Talk: Bishop Robert Griffin and Bishop Durell Watkins co-authored this op-ed in the @sun-sentinel.com, reaffirming their commitment to intersectional justice and argue that inclusion must include all LGBTQ+ people, regardless of religion www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/06/08/p...
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Pride belongs to everyone — including LGBTQ Jews | Opinion
The senior and executive ministers of Sunshine Cathedral in Fort Lauderdale write that, in a time of increasing antisemitism, LGBTQ Floridians should keep Jewish members of their community in mind …
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Rabbi Dr. Levi Ethan Alter in a powerful op-ed in the @theoklahoman.bsky.social reminds us: Pride means standing together. This Pride, we must unite against hate in all its forms — including rising antisemitism and attacks on LGBTQ+ communities. www.oklahoman.com/story/opinio...
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OKC Pride Month must bring about safety and belonging for LGBTQ+ Jews and others | Opinion
Let's reaffirm our highest values -- inclusion, affirmation, safety and belonging for all in our community
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Antisemitism is raging at Pride events across the U.S. this year — from Austin to SF, NY to Raleigh. @jewishinsider.com highlights the disturbing trend, leading with @AWiderBridge's Rabbi @dleger.bsky.social: “We’re not going to let them take Pride away from us.” jewishinsider.com/2025/06/lgbt...
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Proud, but pushed out: Why LGBTQ Jews are creating Pride spaces of their own
Faced with widespread antisemitism in the gay rights movement, 'We're not going to let them take Pride away from us,' says one Jewish activist
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A Wider Bridge 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ @awiderbridge.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
"A Nation’s Sanity Held Hostage" — Why bringing the hostages home is essential to healing Israeli society. Watch the powerful conversation with Israeli leaders and learn about the mental health aspect of the situation 🇮🇱🕊️ awiderbridge.org/a-nations-sa...
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A Nation’s Sanity Held Hostage: Why Bringing the Hostages Home Matters for Israel’s Future – A Wider Bridge
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