SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Jewish Federation of San Diego County and community partners announced their annual community event Wednesday to celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut May 21 held at the San Diego Jewish Academy, 11860 Carmel Creek Rd in San Diego, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. This is a free event to celebrate and educate…
TEL AVIV — The City of Tel Aviv-Yafo announced today that the theme of the 2017 LGBT Pride Parade is “Bisexuality Visibility” The parade will be the first large-scale pride parade in the world to ever celebrate the theme bisexuality. Starting June 3, hundreds of thousands of people from Israel and around the world are…
A PSA entitled “Human Rights: Because without I’m not Equal,” produced by the Association for Civil Rights (ACRI) in Israel has been banned from Israeli TV because of its backing of gay marriage. The ad ad includes appearances by such well-known Israeli celebrities as model and actress Galit Gutmann, former Miss Israel Titi Aynow, social…
Around 30 trans women have taken part in a trans beauty pageant held in Tel Aviv this week, reports Pink News. The ‘Miss Trans Israel’ pageant, the first-ever trans beauty pageant to take place in Israel was organized by Israela Stephanie Lev. Lev said living as a trans woman in Israel had been “terrible” in…
Israel’s Supreme Court has rejected a suit from the family of a transgender activist that was challenging instructions in her will that she be cremated. May Peleg, who was chair of the Jerusalem LGBT organization Open House, committed suicide earlier this month. She had been concerned that her ultra-orthodox parents, whose beliefs forbid cremation, would…
SAN DIEGO – The Jewish Federation of San Diego County and the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), invite members of the Jewish community on a unique and historic mission to Israel. See Israel with PRIDE offers a unique opportunity to join members of the Jewish LGBTQ community to experience Israel like never before and…
Late on Thursday six people were stabbed while participating in an LGBT Pride Parade in Jerusalem. The perpetrator, Yishai Schlissel, is an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man who also stabbed victims at the same event in 2005. Schlissel was just released for that crime last month after serving ten years in prison. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promptly…
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The 40 Years of Pride conference, organized by The Aguda and A Wider Bridge, will bring together a diverse group of LGBTQ leaders from around the world this summer in Israel from June 9-11. For two and a half days, leaders from around the world will gather in the heart of Tel…
A Wider Bridge has announce “40 Years of Pride,” the first-ever global LGBTQ leadership conference to be held in Israel will take place June 9-11 at The Royal Beach Hotel in Tel Aviv, Israel. The LGBT – 40 Years of Pride Conference, organized by The Aguda and A Wider Bridge, will bring together a diverse…
ISRAEL: Hundreds rather than thousands of LGBT people and their friends took part in Jerusalem’s 13th annual Gay Pride parade, Sept. 18 after the event was postponed not once but twice, reports GayAsiaNews.com The event had to be postponed once due to the Israel Defense Forces’ 50-day offensive in the Gaza Strip when Hamas fired…
