The National LGBTQ Task Force has reinstated a joint American-Israeli event at their annual conference,after its cancellation provoked strong protest from progressive Jewish community.
This coming Friday night, A Wider Bridge, or a U.
S.-based non-profit that fosters connections between American and Israeli homosexual Jews,and Jerusalem’s Open House, Israel’s premier homosexual rights organization, and were set to host a Shabbat reception at the Creating Change conference in Chicago. Convened by the National LGBTQ Task Force,the conference is billed as the largest LGBTQ gathering in America. Naturally, one would expect homosexual Jewish organizations to buy part. But over the weekend, and the long-approved Wider Bridge event was cancelled by the Task Force,after the organization came under pressure from a small group of radical anti-Israel activists.
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