JFREJ caucuses are politically and culturally engaged affinity spaces for Jews of Color, Mizrahim & Sephardim, poor & working-class Jews, and Jews with disabilities or chronic illness or neurodivergence in our membership. Caucus members share JFREJ’s values and goals, contribute to JFREJ’s many campaigns, and influence the overall political organizing strategy of JFREJ. Caucuses host cultural events (for fellow caucus members and sometimes for the broader JFREJ community), and build a shared political vision for our community, taking collective action to achieve those goals. Learn more about them below:
Caucuses
Politically and culturally engaged affinity spaces for JFREJ members
Jews of Color Caucus
The JOC Caucus within JFREJ is a politically and culturally engaged affinity space for progressive Jews of Color as we contribute to JFREJ's many campaigns, and influence the overall political organizing strategy of JFREJ. The caucus hosts cultural events for ourselves and also for the broader JFREJ membership, and builds shared political purpose about the needs of our community, taking action to achieve those goals. As a collective of the JFREJ members most impacted by racism, we are committed to ensuring our voices are involved in all key JFREJ organizational decision making, from the Board of Directors to electoral endorsements, to campaign leadership. Click here to learn more.
Poor & Working Class Caucus
The PWC Caucus is a political home-base and community for currently poor and/or working class JFREJ members, bringing together our voices, our experiences, and exerting our political power, to influence strategic decisions of JFREJ organizing, as well as electoral endorsements, through a class lens. We are a community for JFREJ members who live with, or have lived with, sustained financial hardship, experiences of poverty, or a lack of a safety net. Click here to learn more.
Mizrahi & Sephardi Caucus
Since 2014, the Mizrahi & Sephardi Caucus has been a place for JFREJ members who hold Mizrahi & Sephardi identity to have sacred space to build relationships. We do political education for each other on our diverse histories, get trained in grassroots community organizing, and take on leadership in all of JFREJ’s campaign, programmatic, electoral, and cultural work. Click here to learn more.
Disability Caucus
The JFREJ Disability Caucus is a community for JFREJ members who identify as disabled, neurodivergent, or chronically ill. Ableism is a key factor in the issues JFREJ organizes around, from police violence to the care economy. The Disability Caucus is an affinity space providing a low-commitment way for JFREJ members to build relationships, share our experiences, and collectivize our voices as part of the JFREJ membership. Together, we convene people with disabilities in the JFREJ community, and bring access issues and disability justice framing to JFREJ organizing and campaign work. Click here to learn more.