A Wider Bridge: Safety Training for Pride Events for Jewish Professionals
As Pride 2025 approaches, we know you as a Jewish professional are navigating difficult questions. How do we support LGBTQ Jews in a moment of rising antisemitism? How do we ensure that Pride events, Jewish spaces, and public celebrations remain inclusive, safe, and joyful for every member of our community?
At A Wider Bridge, we’ve been listening closely to LGBTQ Jews across North America — and what we’re hearing is deeply concerning. While our full findings will be released in early May, the response we have already received are alarming.
Over the past year, visibly Jewish LGBTQ people have faced an alarming rise in harassment, exclusion, and threats at LGBTQ gatherings, including at Pride. From anti-Jewish slogans shouted at marches to calls for Jewish attendees to hide their identities or stay home altogether, the message has been chilling. It’s left many queer Jews feeling isolated, unseen, and unsafe—precisely in the spaces that are supposed to celebrate all of who we are.
Many are looking to Jewish professionals like you to lead with strength, compassion, and visibility.
We’re here to help.
A Wider Bridge is the leading North American organization advancing LGBTQ inclusion in Jewish life and strengthening connections between LGBTQ communities in the U.S. and Israel. As your partner in this work, we want to ensure you have the resources, training, and support to show up with pride — for your institutions, your communities, and yourselves.
This live, online training will equip you with tools to:
- Prepare your community for Pride events
- Support LGBTQ Jews participating in marches or programs
- Understand how antisemitism is showing up in LGBTQ spaces
- Respond with confidence and care
We will hold another session later that day at 7:00 PM ET
Attached you will find some additional resources that we hope will be helpful. And more than anything, we hope you’ll see A Wider Bridge as one of your most trusted resources — and a partner you can rely on this Pride season and beyond.
With deep appreciation,
Rabbi Denise L. Eger
Interim Executive Director
A Wider Bridge
