Posted on 06/03/2026 12:14:39 PM PDT by Morgana
The 24th Jerusalem March for Pride and Tolerance on Thursday will take a new route toward the Knesset, organizers announced on Tuesday.
The Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance said the march will call for changes in public discourse and legislation on behalf of Israel’s LGBTQ+ community.
The march, held under the slogan “Demanding Change,” will depart from Sacher Park and continue toward the Rose Garden, passing near the Supreme Court and Knesset area. Organizers said the route, approved in coordination with the Jerusalem District Police, is intended to underline that the demand for equality is not symbolic, but requires action by decision-makers. March route and message
For the first time in about a decade, the Jerusalem march will not follow its traditional route, organizers said. Participants are expected to walk from Sacher Park through Rabin Road, the Supreme Court area, Yoel Sussman Street, and on to the Rose Garden.
The Jerusalem Open House said the march will focus on advancing full equality for the LGBTQ+ community, restoring a sense of security for all Israeli citizens, and promoting social and legislative change. The organization said the timing, during an election year, gives the march added civic significance.
Speakers and public figures
The closing rally at the Rose Garden will be hosted by Elad Bar-Noy and Avia Farhi, according to the organizers. Speakers are expected to include Jerusalem activist Nadav Schwartz, trans activist Nina Halevi, Jerusalem Open House chair Hadas Blomendal, and Association for Civil Rights in Israel executive director Noa Sattath.
Performers scheduled to appear include Gal De Paz, Hazeevot, Suzi Boom, and Rona Kenan at the opening stage in Sacher Park. Opposition leader Yair Lapid and MK Naama Lazimi have confirmed their attendance, while organizers said invitations were sent to all Knesset members.
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San Fran’s parade is 4 times bigger:
Pride Events and Visibility
• Tel Aviv Pride: One of the largest in the world and the biggest in the Middle East/Asia region. Pre-war estimates often cited ~250,000 attendees (parade + festival).  Recent years saw tens of thousands of core participants with broader crowds; it has been canceled or scaled back at times due to conflicts. 
• San Francisco Pride: Draws ~1 million attendees in a typical year (parade + weekend events), one of the largest in the U.S.  Parade marchers alone can number in the tens of thousands.
Lots of Jews are atheists. Lots.
They are often communists, and gay too.
Leftism is the religion of many Jews.
Leftists in Israel are just as bad as leftists in the US.
SOME are -- not all
Unconditional - i.e. God's commitment/faithfulness:
Here, clearly scripture maintains that Israel is not exempt from the consequences of its actions. The historical accounts in the books of Kings and the warnings in the Prophets demonstrate that when Israel broke the covenant, they experienced the promised curses (such as the Babylonian exile). Therefore, the text shows that human conduct is a factor in the experiential realization of those promises at any given time.
The ENJOYMENT of those promises by God are presented as STRICTLY conditional based upon faithfulness to the covenant stipulations.
your, cowboyusa, statement saying that the promises are based OMNLY on God's faithfulness is ignorant of the EXPLICIT "if-then" conditions"
Toss out the false dispensationalist claptrap and read the bible
Being a “Jew” can mean either:
1. Religion
2. ethnicity
or both.
There ARE ethnic Jews who belong to other religions (just as an aside many of the mohammedans in Gaza and the west bank have a lot of Jewish genetic ancestry, but they call themselves “arabs” - showing how nationality and ethnicity change)
similarly, I can think of Sammy Davis Jr who was NOT ethnically a Jew but religiously he was a Jew.
Or Ivanka Trump.
the ones holding the marches may identify purely ‘ethnically’ as Jews.
As an aside, this only became unusual due to the rise of Christianity (and later Islam) - and there are many ethno-religious groups like the Druze, Alawites, Parsis, Mandaens etc. etc.
Have you read the Bible? The Bible does not identify any modern nation-state as "Biblical" or grant any country a unique status or higher standard of accountability based on its national identity.
And "the USA has the FULL gospel" - huh?? you think the book of Moroni is a gospel? or you think that no one else had the Gospels until the late 1700s?
The Bible defines the "gospel" (good news) as the message of Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection for the forgiveness of sins. It is not a possession of any single nation; rather, Jesus commanded that this message be preached to "all nations".
ripture consistently emphasizes that the gospel is a universal gift of grace. There is no biblical basis for identifying one specific modern nation-state as the exclusive steward of the "full gospel" or as a uniquely "Biblical" entity.
your dispensationalist nonsense has blinded you to the scriptures - I would suggest reading the Bible
I think we need to come up with a way to distinguish “ethnic Jews” vs “Jewish by religion”.
yes, “Jewish by religion” has a lot of variation - from “Reform” to “ultra-orthodox”, but one thing at a time ! :)
Perhaps we need to re-use the term “Hebrew” to indicate anyone who has Jewish ancestry or ethnicity and “Jew” to be restricted for religiosity?
We could use “Judean” for the ethnicity, as the various other tribes were absorbed into the “Judean” tag, so it could also work.
There is huge variety in Judaism which is by itself pretty small. So folks from the outside are definitely confused, while many of us on the inside still can’t keep track.
For example, while praying at The Wall, I have no idea which sect of orthodox is dressed which way, and what all the hats mean!
You need to read Jeremiah 31 and Ezikiel 37, and don’t spiritualize the promises. They are promises to National Israel.
You need to read Jeremiah 31 and Ezikiel 37, and don’t spiritualize the promises. They are promises to National Israel.
America being a Biblical Natioj has nothing to with didpensationalism. It means the roots of America are Christian. That is why the left eants to destroy them.
cronos:
Citing Jeremiah 31 and Ezekiel 37 does not erase the conditional warnings of Deuteronomy 28 or the reality of the Exile described in the historical books.
SOME are -- not allUnconditional - i.e. God's commitment/faithfulness:
Conditional - where the text of scripture explicitly ties the enjoyment of those promises to the behavior of the Israelite nation. cowboyusa, have you never read Deuteronomy 28 or Leviticus 26?????
- Abrahamic covenant (Gen 12, 15,17)
This language makes the immediate experience of the promises contingent upon the people's adherence to the covenantal law
- If Israel obeys the commandments, they receive specific blessings (prosperity, protection, land)
- If they disobey, they face specific curses (defeat, disease, famine, and exile).
Here, clearly scripture maintains that Israel is not exempt from the consequences of its actions. The historical accounts in the books of Kings and the warnings in the Prophets demonstrate that when Israel broke the covenant, they experienced the promised curses (such as the Babylonian exile). Therefore, the text shows that human conduct is a factor in the experiential realization of those promises at any given time.The ENJOYMENT of those promises by God are presented as STRICTLY conditional based upon faithfulness to the covenant stipulations.
your, cowboyusa, statement saying that the promises are based OMNLY on God's faithfulness is ignorant of the EXPLICIT "if-then" conditions"
Toss out the false dispensationalist claptrap and read the bible
But all of those praying at the wall are “Jewish by religion”
you see my point of separating the ethnicity from the religious adherents?
So a “Hindu Jew” is not a misnomer but a person of Jewish ethnicity who becomes a Hindu (I know of one!) — that’s why I advocate usage of the term “Judaen” or “Hebrew” for the ethnicity to separate it from religious adherence
“America being a Biblical Natioj has nothing to with didpensationalism”
dispensationalism in general has little to do with Christianity or any historical facts
The Bible defines the “people of God” based on spiritual identity (faith in Christ), not on political borders or national foundations. There is no category in the biblical text for a “Christian nation” other than the Church itself, which is described as a spiritual body existing within and across all worldly nations.
Labeling a modern, secular state as a “Biblical Nation” conflates historical cultural influences with theological identity, a categorization that finds no support in the biblical text.
We just disagree on this.
There is a huge group of Jewddhists, Jews who have become Buddhist.
Jews are all over the map!
My family has a nominally Christian background that never took with me. I adopted Judaism in adulthood, though they never adopted me. I’m Jewish in my mind, my heart, my practice for much of my life, my philosophy and cosmology. Jews who hear what I’ve been up to all say the same thing, “You’ve done more Judaism than me!” My second wife of 12 years, upon hearing I wasn’t a convert and therefore am not Jewish according to the State of Israel, said, “So wait! You’re NOT Jewish?”
No, you disagree with the Bible.
1. the Biblical text disagrees with dispensationalism’s dual covenant - which actually contradicts the Bible
2. The Bible defines the “people of God” based on spiritual identity (faith in Christ), not on political borders or national foundations. There is no category in the biblical text for a “Christian nation” other than the Church itself, which is described as a spiritual body existing within and across all worldly nations.
That’s my point — you are Jewish full stop - by religion.
And we should reserve the term “Jewish” for adherents of the religion - whatever the ‘flavor’ of Judaism, just as we have Buddhism and it doesn’t matter whether Theravada or Mahayana or whatever
And the term “Judean” or “Hebrew” (or both) to be used for those ethnically from the original Israelites
There is no dual Covenant.Gentiles s are grafted in to the Israel of GOD.
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