The Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance (JOH, Hebrew: הבית הפתוח בירושלים לגאווה ולסובלנות HaBayit HaPatuach, "Open House"; Arabic: البيت المفتوح في القدس للفخر والتسامح Al-Beit Al-Maftoukh) is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1997 that runs an LGBTQ community center offering educational and social events and a health center that provides physical and mental care.
The community center exists as a third place where JOH organizes events, joint holidays, activities, workshops, poetry nights and lectures.
The center also organizes meetings and events for people of all religious denominations, including a social group for Orthodox gay men.
JOH also provides social workers to guide and support LGBTQ at-risk youth and teenagers day-to-day and in emergency situations.
JOH offers services specifically for youth living in the area around Jerusalem, including doing outreach in schools.
Current campaigns include efforts to convince the Rabbinical School of the Conservative movement to accept LGBT people into its Rabbinical program in Israel; to achieve recognition for LGBTQ victims of the Holocaust and their inclusion in Israel's national Holocaust memorial ceremonies; and to protest against conversion therapy.
[14][15][16] Protesters, many of them religious Jews, lined the mile-long parade route shouting insults and displaying signs with messages like: "You are corrupting our children," and "Jerusalem is not San Francisco.
[23] Despite threats, violence and challenges from conservative parties and aggressors, the March for Pride and Tolerance has continued to be help each year.
As the city's largest human rights event, involving many thousands of marchers, the Pride March enables participants to shape the contemporary face of Jerusalem and publicly support LGBTQ people's struggle for full rights, and life without prejudice in their city.
[26][27][28][29][3][30][31][32] Protestors accused the groups of pinkwashing and physically disrupted a presentation that JOH members were giving about the attack at the 2015 Jerusalem March for Pride and Tolerance.