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JFREJ Fall Membership Assembly

Fall 2022 JFREJ Membership Assembly

Join JFREJ During Our Fall Membership Drive!

Join JFREJ Community During Our Fall Membership Drive!

Volunteer for the 2024 JFREJ Fall Membership Drive

Build JFREJ's people power!

Sign up to Phonebank During the JFREJ Fall Membership Drive!

Fall Drive Phonebank #2

Fall Drive Phonebank #3

Fall Drive Phonebank #4

Fall Drive Phonebank #7

Role Networks

The JFREJ Role Network is a new way for JFREJ members to develop relevant skills that allow them to hold a wide range o…

Summer Membership Drive Thank-a-Thon!

JFREJ for the People Membership Drive Training

Fall 2021 Neighborhood Groups Meetings!

2022 Neighborhood Groups - Info Call

2022 Neighborhood Groups - Info Call

2022 Neighborhood Groups - Info Call

2022 Neighborhood Groups - Info Call

Freedom to Thrive Campaign Meeting - March 2022

JFREJ Member Briefing: 2021 Membership Survey Results

JFREJ Summer Membership Drive Phonebank

JFREJ Summer Membership Drive Phonebank

JFREJ Summer Membership Drive Phonebank

JFREJ Summer Membership Drive Phonebank

5783 City Council Co-Governance Meetings

5783 City Council Co-Governance Meetings

5783 City Council Co-Governance Meetings

5783 City Council Co-Governance Meetings

JFREJ March Phonebank and Training

We Are Here Beit Midrash

5780 JFREJ/TJV Membership Assembly

April/Nisan JFREJ Online Membership Assembly

May/Sivan JFREJ Online Membership Assembly

June Membership Assembly

Freedom to Thrive: CopWatch Training

August/Av Membership Assembly

Mazals Tickets Phonebank

Mazals Tickets Phonebank

Mazals Ads Phonebank

Giving Tuesday Phonebank #1

Giving Tuesday Phonebank #2

Thank-a-Thon #1

Thank-a-Thon #2

Mazals Text Bank

Year End Phone Bank Marathon

Neighborhood Groups

Connect with JFREJ members in your area. Meet your neighbors, make friends, learn, and take action together.

The First Membership Assembly of 2021

Lunchtime with Audrey (February)

Lunchtime with Audrey (March)

Mayoral Candidate Interviews

Clubhouse evening with The Jewish Vote - 3/1

Clubhouse evening with The Jewish Vote - 3/8

Clubhouse evening with The Jewish Vote copy - 3/15

The Jewish Vote Comptroller & Public Advocate Interviews

The Jewish Vote

We're using Jewish Left electoral power to send progressive champions, socialists, and reformers, to City Hall and Alba…

Upstander Training: Learn how to interrupt incidents of hate violence.

FTT Comms Campaign Team Meeting (Social Media & Spokespeople)

Freedom to Thrive Research Campaign Team Meeting

FTT Phone Banking Campaign Team Meeting

FTT Outreach/Orientation Campaign Team Meeting

Spring 2021 Membership Assembly

Phone Banking for Community Safety

Phone Banking for Community Safety

FTT Outreach/Orientation Campaign Team Meeting

Lunchtime with Audrey (JFREJ Executive Director)

Lunchtime with Audrey (JFREJ Executive Director)

Freedom to Thrive Research Campaign Team Meeting

Freedom to Thrive Comms Campaign Team Meeting

Freedom to Thrive Outreach/Orientation Campaign Team Meeting

June 2021 Membership Assembly

Member Training: Organizing 101

Fall 2021 Membership Assembly

JFREJ for the People Phone Bank

JFREJ for the People Phone Bank

JFREJ for the People Membership Mobilizer Phone Bank

JFREJ for the People Membership Mobilizer Phone Bank

JFREJ for the People Phone Bank

JFREJ for the People Phone Bank

JFREJ for the People Thank-a-thon

Lunchtime with Audrey (JFREJ Executive Director)

Lunchtime with Audrey (JFREJ Executive Director)

Team Teshuvah

JFREJ Transformative Justice Training (Pt. 1)

JFREJ Transformative Justice Training (Pt. 2)

October Neighborhood Groups Meetings

October Neighborhood Groups Meetings

December Welcome Meeting

Winter 2022 Membership Assembly

JFREJ Zoom Security Basics Training

JFREJ Member Meeting: All About Co-Governance

February 2022 Neighborhood Groups Meetings

January 2022 Neighborhood Groups Meetings

The Jewish Vote Candidate Interviews: State Assembly

The Jewish Vote Candidate Interviews: State Senate

The Jewish Vote Candidate Interviews: U.S. Congress

2022 Freedom To Thrive Campaign Launch Meeting

February 2022 New Member Meeting

Virtual Training: Facilitation 101

The Jewish Vote Candidate Interviews: NY Assembly District 81

The Jewish Vote Candidate Interviews: Assembly Districts 70 & 82

Membership Mobilizer Training

Membership Mobilizer Training

JFREJ Spring Membership Drive Phonebank

JFREJ Spring Membership Drive Phonebank

JFREJ Spring Membership Drive Phonebank

New Member Welcome Meeting

Freedom To Thrive Campaign Meeting

May Neighborhood Groups Meetings

May Neighborhood Groups Meetings

June 2022 Membership Assembly

New Member Welcome Meeting

June 2022 Neighborhood Groups Meetings

Practicing our JFREJ Principles with the Inside Out Wisdom & Action (IOWA) Project

Practicing our JFREJ Principles with the Inside Out Wisdom & Action (IOWA) Project

Practicing our JFREJ Principles with the Inside Out Wisdom & Action (IOWA) Project

JFREJ Summer Membership Drive Textbank

JFREJ Summer Membership Drive Textbank

Membership Mobilizer Training

Membership Mobilizer Training

Fall 2022 Social Media Training

September 2022 Neighborhood Groups Meetings (in-person)

September 2022 Neighborhood Groups Meetings (on zoom)

Info Session: the Great 1:1 Campaign of 5783!

Training: How to have a Great 1:1!

New Member Welcome Meeting

JFREJ’s Strategy on Israel-Palestine as a Local Issue: Past & Present

How to Understand & Combat Antisemitism and its Instrumentalization in NYC

October 2022 Neighborhood Groups

November 2022 Neighborhood Groups

Election Debrief & Roundtable: New York Jews & Democracy, where do we go from here?

Film Screening: Boycott

Film Screening: Boycott

2022 Elections Informal Debrief with The Jewish Vote Steering Committee

Freedom to Thrive: Deep Canvassing Training

The Jewish Vote 2023 Strategy Session

JFREJ End of Year Fundraising Phonebank

JFREJ End of Year Fundraising Phonebank

JFREJ End of Year Fundraising Phonebank

JFREJ End of Year Fundraising Phonebank

2023 Neighborhood Groups Info Session

2023 Neighborhood Groups Info Session

Freedom to Thrive Legislative & Budget Strategy Session

January 2023 Neighborhood Groups

February 2023 Neighborhood Groups

March 2023 Neighborhood Groups

April 2023 Neighborhood Groups

May 2023 Neighborhood Groups

June 2023 Neighborhood Groups

New Member Welcome Meeting

Spring 2023 Membership Assembly

Freedom to Thrive City Budget Campaign Meeting

Freedom to Thrive City Budget Campaign Meeting

Freedom to Thrive City Budget Campaign Meeting

Freedom to Thrive City Budget Campaign Meeting

Freedom To Thrive: City Budget Campaign Debrief

New Member Welcome Meeting

Deep Canvassing Training

Spring Membership Drive Phonebank

Spring Membership Drive Phonebank

Spring Membership Drive Phonebank

Spring Membership Drive Phonebank

Spring Membership Drive Phonebank

Spring Membership Drive Phonebank

Spring Membership Drive Phonebank

Deep Canvassing Training

Belated June 2023 Neighborhood Groups

#JewsForCUNY Discussion & Briefing for JFREJ Members

August New Member Welcome Meeting

Deep Canvassing Training

Fall Drive Thank-a-thon

JFREJ & Standing Together

Mailing Party

Virtual Marshaling & Deescalation 101 Training

Neighborhood Groups Field Day

Fall Drive Phonebank #1

Tisha B'Av of Teshuvah (Return): Mourning the Destruction of Black Lives

June Welcome Meeting

January New Member Welcome Meeting

Mini JFREJ Orientation

Mini JFREJ Orientation

JFREJ Membership Campaign Planning Meeting

JFREJ Membership Campaign Grassroots Fundraising Training

Rooted in Action Thank-a-Thon!

December Member Assembly

Manhattan (CD 9) Candidate Interviews

The Jewish Vote Manhattan DA Interviews

Ready For Action Membership Drive Training - 3/17

Ready For Action Membership Drive Training - 3/21

The Jewish Vote Candidate Interviews: U.S. Congress NY-10

Fall Drive Membership Mobilizer Training #1

Fall Drive Membership Mobilizer Training #2

JFREJ Membership Campaign: Rooted In Action Phone Bank

Queens (CD 25, 26 & 32) Candidate Interviews

Brooklyn (CD 40 & 48) Candidate Interviews

Bronx (CD 14, 15, 16, & 18) Candidate Interviews

July Welcome Meeting

#JewsForJess Weekly Phonebank

#JewsForJess Weekly Phonebank

#JewsForJess Weekly Phonebank

#JewsForJess Weekly Phonebank

#JewsForJess Weekly Phonebank

#JewsForJess Phonebank

#JewsForJess Canvass

#JewsForJess Phonebank

#JewsForJess Canvass

#JewsForJess Phonebank

#JewsForJess Canvass

#CareNotCuts: Flyer to restore funding for public libraries!

Freedom to Thrive

We are organizing to defund, dismantle and transform the oppressive carceral and capitalist systems that harm New Yorke…

Organizing Against Antisemitism

JFREJ is leading the progressive movement’s response to antisemitism by providing analysis, education, and guidance to …

Preventing Hate Violence

Joining with our neighbors to prevent hate violence against all our communities

Fund Excluded Workers Phone Bank

Fund Excluded Workers Phone Bank

Fund Excluded Workers Phone Bank

Protest Against NIMBYism at Gracie Mansion

Freedom to Thrive April Campaign Meeting

Freedom to Thrive May Campaign Meeting

June Freedom to Thrive Campaign Meeting

Tisha B'Av: 40 Days of Teshuvah - The Film

Freedom to Thrive Outreach to Council Members

Freedom to Thrive Outreach to Council Members

Caucuses

Politically and culturally engaged affinity spaces for JFREJ members

JFREJ & the People's Plan: Phonebank for #CareNotCuts

Pack the Court!

Parents & Kids Take Action for #CareNotCuts!

Sign up to Phonebank and Build JFREJ's People Power!

Let My People Go Fundraising Training

Elders for Black Lives Call to #DefundNYPD

40 Days of Teshuvah

Caring Majority Monthly Organizing Call & Orientation

November Caring Majority Monthly Organizing Call & Orientation

December Caring Majority Monthly Organizing Call & Orientation

Disability Caucus

The JFREJ Disability Caucus is a community for JFREJ members who identify as disabled or neurodivergent, or chronically…

City Council Outreach for the People's Budget

City Council Outreach for the People's Budget

City Council Outreach for the People's Budget

City Council Outreach for the People's Budget

City Council Outreach for the People's Budget

City Council Outreach for the People's Budget

Fall Drive Phonebank #5

Fall Drive Phonebank #6

Caring Majority

We organize older adults, disabled people, family caregivers, and home care workers to build a more caring and feminist…

NYC Caring Majority Call - Fair Pay

Israel-Palestine As A Local Issue

JFREJ was founded to focus on local organizing for racial and economic justice in NYC. Our founding members knew then, …

Spring Membership Drive Thank-a-thon

June Grassroots Fundraising Phonebank

Juneteenth Seder for Black Liberation

Jews of Color Caucus

The JFREJ Jews of Color Caucus is a home for Jews of Color to come together as a caring community, build our progressiv…

PWC Caucus

We are a community for JFREJ members who live with, or have lived with, sustained financial hardship, experiences of po…

JFREJ Member Phonebank

Phone Bank

JFREJ Membership Phonebank

Support B&H Workers Rally

Raised Poor and Working Class Caucus Meeting

Raised Poor and Working-Class Caucus Meeting

Grassroots Fundraising Committee Meeting

People Power Outreach Event

Basebuilding Phonebank

Bottom(s) Up! Action Night

JFREJ New Member Webinar

New Member Webinar

The 2018 JFREJ Awards Phone Bank

End of Year Phonebank!

JFREJ Action FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions About Our Exciting Changes

Jews for Jaslin Weekly Phonebank!

#MenschesforMino Weekly Phonebank

#JewsForBrad Phonebanks

Erev Tu B'Av with The Jewish Vote

Gathering for JFREJ Members who Identify as Disabled, Have Chronic Illnesss, or are Neurodivergent

Gathering for JFREJ Members who Identify as Disabled, Have Chronic Illnesss, or are Neurodivergent

JFREJ Members Join Hunger Strike to #EndCabbieDebt

The New York Taxi Workers Association and allies are on a hunger strike to demand debt relief from the city.

Announcing the Israel-Palestine Team & Process

2021 Year in Review

Canvassing & Camaraderie, Mutual Aid & Mazals, Posters & Protests, and so much more

Faith for Fair Pay Kick-Off

Disability Caucus Meeting - April 2022

Kvetch & Text with The Jewish Vote

Kvetch & Text with The Jewish Vote

Kvetch & Text with The Jewish Vote

Kvetch & Text with The Jewish Vote

Kvetch & Text with The Jewish Vote

Kvetch & Text with The Jewish Vote

Disability Caucus Meeting - June 2022

Kvetch & Text with The Jewish Vote

Neighborhood Groups Facilitation Training

Halloween Phone Bank with the Working Families Party!

Briefing for JFREJ Member Rabbis: Our strategy for Israel & Palestine as a Local Issue

Giving Tuesday Phonebank

Giving Tuesday Textbank

PHOTOS: New Yorkers Rally Agains Mayor Adams' Cruel and Dangerous Mental Health Plan

Plus: A Letter from NYC Rabbis urging Mayor Adams to Rescind Initiative Directed at Unhoused New Yorkers

Disability Caucus Meeting

Kibbitz Against the Cuts: a JFREJ Meet-up (CD7)

JFREJ Westchester Meet-up

Spring Equinox Phonebank

Grassroots Fundraising Training

JFREJ Summer Membership Assembly

JFREJ Summer Phonebank

JFREJ October Phonebank

JFREJ November Phonebank

Sukkot for Housing Justice Art Build

Uptown Neighborhood Group Social

Deep Canvassing Training (Brooklyn)

Neighborhood Groups Info call (#1)

Neighborhood Groups Info call (#2)

We Keep Us Safe! Training on Deescalation, Marshalling & Bystander Intervention at Protests

JFREJ 2024 Budget Presentation (for members!)

The Jewish Vote: Endorsement Interviews - Hudson Valley

The Jewish Vote: Endorsement Interviews - Brooklyn & Bronx

The Jewish Vote: Endorsement Interviews - Harlem

The Jewish Vote: Endorsement Interviews - Upper West Side & Queens

Israel-Palestine Shabbat Dinner Discussion Guide

This guide was created in February 2024 to support members of the JFREJ community coming together over a Shabbat meal …

Take part in JFREJ's Spring Membership Drive!

Become a Membership Mobilizer or phonebank with us to build the home of the Jewish Left.

Spring Membership Drive Phonebank #2

Spring Membership Drive Phonebank #3

Spring Membership Drive Phonebank #4

Spring Membership Drive Phonebank #5

Spring Membership Drive Phonebank #6

Spring Membership Drive Phonebank #7

Spring Membership Drive Phonebank #8

Membership Drive Training #1

Membership Drive Training #2

Sign up to Phonebank During the JFREJ Spring Membership Drive!

QNS May Neighborhood Group Meeting on Israel-Palestine

Spring Membership Drive Phonebank #9

Disability Caucus Meeting

Turn out for the NYC City Council Budget Vote

We Keep Us Safe Training on de-escalation, marshalling & bystander intervention at protests

Pix11: NYC Mayor Eric Adams faces criticism for shelter policy

JFREJ members joined migrant advocates, supportive elected officials, and non-profit providers all calling on Mayor Eri…

Queens Neighborhood Group Phone Bank to Stop Shelter Evictions

Community Safety & Security Role Network's Monthly Skills Practice Salon

Manhattan #1 November Neighborhood Group

Women's March 2019 Ritual & Discussion Guide

JFREJers will be in Washington, DC to join the Women’s March there and here at the Women’s March in NYC at Foley Square…

Women's March 2019: JFREJ Joins #jwocmarching

This week, women, trans people, and our allies across the nation will march and rally to demand justice and an agenda t…

The Abundant Joy of Mimouna

As the sun set over Bay Ridge, Brooklyn two weeks ago, Mizrahi and Sephardi members of JFREJ made history.

Mizrahi & Sephardi Caucus

The JFREJ Mizrahi & Sephardi Caucus is a space for Jews who trace our ancestry from the Middle East, Asia and the Balka…

Responding to hate violence epidemic, leaders of New York's Jewish community demand action and new approach

Fifty rabbis and other Jewish community leaders join Arab-American, Muslim, LGBTQ, immigrant, Black and Brown communiti…

How to Address Antisemitism: Take Action Now

In an op-ed in the Gotham Gazette, JFREJ Antisemitism Team members Arielle Korman and Martha Acklesberg describe JFREJ’…

When we say #NEVERAGAIN, we mean it

Never Again Is Now

Ending NYPD Violence

JFREJ works with our partners to realize a vision of public safety based not on policing and prisons, but on violence-p…

Culture and Ritual

Juneteenth Seder

Letter From Audrey: We Are Being Tested - What Will We Do?

We are in a fight for the lives and dignity of the many against the few.

Letter from a JFREJ Member: I Was One Of The 44 #JewsAgainstICE Arrested At Amazon Yesterday

As the great-granddaughter of immigrants who fled Eastern Europe, I was proud to be one of the 44 JFREJers who put our …

JFREJ Leads Bold Hate Violence Prevention Initiative

Following rise in hate violence, diverse group of NYC community orgs, elected leaders, demand a new strategy

The JFREJ Haggadah Library

Passover Resources to Enrich Your Seder

JFREJ Policing Member Assembly

Last month, our community came together to complete a three month long membership decision-making process to determine …

Riverdale Community Teach-In: The Right to Know Act

Jews Against Islamophobia and Racism - Rekindling our Commitment to Justice

Caring Majority Assembly

Third Caring Majority Assembly

Purim Ensemble

Care Documentary Screening

Mizrahi Caucus Event on Colonial Education in the Middle East & North Africa

Raised Poor & Working Class Shabbat Lunch

David Krakauer Concert to Benefit the ACLU & NYCLU

All Out for Right to Know Act

Juneteenth Community Seder

Jews4BlackLives Juneteenth Action Night

Join JFREJ at Shavuot Across Brooklyn

The 2018 JFREJ Awards

JFREJ Mimouna

Freedom to Thrive Meeting

Winning Where We Are: Democratic Strategy & the Jewish Left in NYC

Jews for Racial & Economic Justice mourns the murder of 9 AME Church Members

The Hope of How

Go back to school with JFREJ!

This High Holiday Season, We Say: Black Lives Matter

Report From Cleveland

JFREJ in Solidarity with Refugees and Muslim Communities

2017 JFREJ Award Nominees & Past Honorees

Women's March 2018 Ritual & Discussion Guide

A JFREJ Announcement

JFREJ's STATEMENT AT THE SECOND HANDSCHU FAIRNESS HEARING

We Want a REAL Right To Know Act Now!

Jews4BlackLives: Call To Action!

Largest Ever Mobilization Of Jews For Black Lives Matter!

JFREJ Calls on Brooklyn Commons to Cancel Anti-Semitic Event

Grief and rage, mourning and action

Join the #JewishResistance

Purim Season Is Here!

Jews Have a Critical Role in Resisting the Trump Administration

Purim is This Week! Join us for: JEWS WITH THORNS

JFREJ Stands With Linda Sarsour (Again, Always, With Love)

The GPOF 5777 Fellows are Graduating!

More information about JFREJ's ongoing support of Linda Sarsour

Standing Against Racist Violence in Charlottesville

Making Our Movements Stronger by Resisting Antisemitism

The 2017 JFREJ Risk Taker Awards!

Living Our Values: A Letter From JFREJ Executive Director Audrey Sasson

How the NYPD Gets Away With It

#FreeOurFuture- A Report from Actions on the Border to #AbolishICE

Honoring the life and legacy of Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, z"l

The Future of Police Accountability

JFREJ in the Media Roundup

JFREJ's Juneteenth Seder & Juneteenth Haggadah

End of Year Antisemitism Review

JFREJ in the New York Times

For us, the emergence of a “new” Jewish Left under Trump and the white Nationalism he incites is no coincidence.

Introducing Mazals 2019 Honoree Make The Roady NY

We are proud to honor Make the Road NY at the Mazals, the 2019 Awards Gala of JFREJ and the Jewish Vote.

Beit Midrash Report Back

On the last Sunday in January, members of JFREJ gathered at the Harlem JCC for an afternoon of discussion and study.

Let My People Go Press Release

SCORES OF VULNERABLE NYERS FREED FROM ICE/JAIL BY PASSOVER CAMPAIGN AS COVID-19 CRISIS GROWS IN PRISONS

Day Against Hate Report Back

JFREJ led eight other community organizations for a citywide Day Against Hate

Support the family of beloved organizer Nikita Price

Picture the Homeless Organizer and Friend of JFREJ Nikita Price Passed Away Recently. Please Help Support His Daughters.

Final Push for #NYCBudgetJustice

We’re days away from New York City’s June 30th budget deadline

Reflections on #DefundNYPD

What we've learned from the #NYCBudgetJustice campaign

24hr Fast To #FundExcludedWorkers

Rooted In Action: JFREJ's 2020 Membership Campaign

Join the JFREJ Membership Campaign

Preparing for a New Year

The JFREJ “office” will be closing for the period in our tradition known as Yamim HaNoraim or The Days of Awe (Friday, …

Mazals 2020: The Breakthrough Party

The JFREJ Guide to Election Defense

We need YOU to become an Election Defender

Jews Against Fascism

Key information for taking action in the streets and on the phones to protect the democratic process before, during and…

Housing Justice on the Lower East Side

JFREJ History 1990–2015

Looking Back at JFREJ's 2020

NY Jewish Week: Jews Breaking Silence On Diallo Shooting

NY Jewish Week

Jews4BlackLives Month of Action Concludes with March and Civil Disobedience

7 Jews of Color arrested in #Jews4BlackLives action - August 2016

Big JFREJ News!

Learn more about one of our new strategies to win transformative change

Mensches for Mino: A Magical Purim Phonebank for Mino Lora

Meet our new staff!

More big news at JFREJ

JOC Caucus Purim Party!

The New JFREJ Member Handbook!

Resources for Fighting Anti-Asian Hate Violence

Sign up to get updates on how Jews can support AAPI communities, learn more about hate violence, get tips on being an u…

Fight to restore the Hate Violence Prevention Initiative

We are demanding that funding for this critical program be restored and expanded to meet the needs of Asian communities…

Weekly Monday Evening with The Jewish Vote

We cannot remain bystanders

Take action and learn how to intervene when we witness violence

Unity Ticket!

DIANNE MORALES, SCOTT STRINGER & MAYA WILEY ENDORSED BY THE JEWISH VOTE

HuffPost: Left-Wing Jewish Group Endorses Dianne Morales For New York City Mayor

The announcement marks Jews for Racial and Economic Justice’s first-ever mayoral endorsement and a major pick-up for Mo…

Changes to our NYC Mayoral race endorsements

Regardless of who wins the mayoral race, we’ve always known that we need to elect as many of our down-ballot endorsed c…

ELECTION NIGHT: While we wait for results...

Let's recognize and celebrate the scale of what we pulled off.

#NYCBudgetJustice Rally & Press Conference at City Hall

Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) Respond to Budget Deal Increasing Funding for the NYPD

The 2017-2021 City Council’s Final Budget Betrays New Yorkers, Continues To Invest In a Broken System While Underfundin…

JFREJ Office Closed September 6-22

NY Caring Majority Launches Website to Track New York’s Growing Homecare Shortage

ICantFindHomecare.com tracks New Yorkers’ data on inability to secure vital homecare — data will be sent to State Depar…

The Jewish Vote's electoral accomplishments...by the numbers

Let's recognize and celebrate the scale of what we pulled off.

Gathering for JFREJ Members who Identify as Disabled, Have Chronic Illnesss, or are Neurodivergent

Unraveling Antisemitism

A cultural organizing project and map for discussion, organizing, and struggle to win a world free from antisemitism

Mazals 2021: A JFREJ House Party!

Waging Nonviolence: How the left is reclaiming the fight against antisemitism

By centering their resistance within the wider anti-racism struggle, progressive Jewish organizers are following a new …

New Yorkers Remind Schumer: It's #TimeToDeliver

New Yorkers Rally in Brooklyn to demand Schumer delivers on the care economy, immigration, housing, infrastructure, cli…

JFREJ hits back against Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres in new Jewish Currents piece

"The Bronx councilman struck a deal behind closed doors, agreeing to revise the bill so that NYPD officers would no lon…

30+ Climate Activists Arrested Blocking Major NYC Highways, Demand Biden Include Climate in Build Back Better Plan

Jews for Racial & Economic Justice joined Sunrise Movement NYC, Extinction Rebellion NYC, and Free Our Future NYC for t…

The Jewish Vote Continues a Century-Long Legacy of NYC Jewish Left Organizing

NYC's first Muslim woman in City Council, the first JFREJ member elected to citywide office, and more.

NYC Street Vendor Scavenger Hunt - Kick Off Event!

What Have JFREJ Members Been Up To Lately?

Watch the Fall 2021 Membership Assembly Slideshow

Trans Day of Remembrance 2021

November 20, 2021 is the annual Trans Day of Remembrance/Resilience, when we honor the memory of those killed in acts o…

NYC Street Vendor Scavenger Hunt - South Bronx Vendor Tour!

Williamsburg Community Safety Canvass

The NY Jewish Week: In Brooklyn, a Jewish group tries a face-to-face approach to fighting antisemitism

"JFREJ canvassers spread out in the neighborhood, offering bystanders tips on intervening when they see a hate crime an…

2020 Year in Review

Opinion: A different vision for keeping New York’s Jews safe

A New York rally conflating the IDF emblem with Jewish identity does nothing to fight antisemitism in the city. True sa…

The Forward: Jewish progressive group endorses Jamaal Bowman for re-election

“In a time when our democracy is at stake, we must recognize that Congressman Bowman is one of our best fighters.”

JFREJ & CBST Issue Joint Statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Condemn NY GOP's Embrace of the Far-Right

Jewish Leaders Condemn NY GOP's Call to Expand Mass Incarceration & Embrace of Far-Right Councilmember Who Compared Vac…

Fair Pay for Home Care Act Hits Democratic Majorities in Assembly and State Senate

New York State faces the worst home care shortage in the nation — forcing older adults and disabled people into dangero…

The NY Jewish Week: How this Jewish politician in Brooklyn wins friends among progressives and the Haredi Orthodox

"Restler was endorsed by The Jewish Vote, the political wing of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, a progressive Jewis…

The Jewish Vote endorses Brittany Ramos DeBarros & Rana Abdelhamid for U.S. Congress in Districts NY-11 & NY-12

Endorsement press release and press coverage

Resources for JFREJ Purim 5782/2022

JFREJ is celebrating Purim on Sunday, March 13, with an outdoors pageant, parade, and party kicking off on the steps of…

JFREJ + Creatives Rebuild NY Arts Grant Application - Due Monday, March 21

Calling all artists: apply to collaborate with JFREJ and receive $65k/year for two years.

Chag Purim Sameach!

A recap of JFREJ'S 2022 Purim Celebration: EMERGENCY PURIM!

Remember the Triangle Fire and Fight for Worker Power in New York!

From the garment workers in the shirtwaist strike to the fight for home care workers’ rights, Jews have been integral t…

A Freedom To Thrive Seder in the Streets

STATEMENT: Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) Respond to Gov. Hochul's Budget Deal Betrayal

Governor Hochul’s late budget is a betrayal of New Yorkers across every issue: home care, housing, mass incarceration, …

The Laundry Workers Center, JFREJ, and T'ruah team up to launch the Cabricanecos Campaign

Every worker deserves to have a job where basic rights are respected, such as the right to safety and the right to be p…

JFREJ Testimony at New York City Council Public Safety Committee Hearing

Testimony of Rabbi Joshua Stanton on behalf of Tirdof: New York Jewish Clergy for Justice, a joint project of JFREJ & T…

The Jewish Vote's 2022 Slate

JFREJ's electoral arm has endorsed 31 candidates for state and federal office in the 2022 election cycle.

Hate Crimes Hearing Reveals Urgent Need for Mayor to Invest in Community-Based Hate Violence Prevention

NYC Against Hate commends City Council for aggressive and thorough oversight, pushes for well-funded community-based an…

ב״ה for abortion

Resources for understanding the overturning of Roe v. Wade, recommendations on where to donate, and action to take for …

From NYC to Buffalo: Day Against Hate

Join JFREJ & NYC Against Hate to Take action in response to the devastating white supremacist attack in Buffalo, and to…

Rally for Ana Maria Archila for Lt. Governor!

Black Star News: New Yorkers Demand $1 Billion In Cuts To NYPD, Call For Increases To Non-Police Public Safety Solutions

"Our current strategy of policing and prosecutions is not working because it was the wrong strategy to begin with. Inst…

Community Cookout with Jessica Altagracia Woolford!

Protest the Right-Wing Jewish Leadership Conference!

JFREJ Statement on the New York City Council FY2023 Budget Vote

In response to the adopted FY2023 New York City budget, Audrey Sasson, Executive Director of Jews For Racial & Economic…

Pickles to the Polls! (Brooklyn)

Pickles to the Polls! (The Bronx)

The Jewish Group Behind the Nanny Bill of Rights

An interview with JFREJ Program Coordinator Sarah Fields about the Shalom Bayit campaign to pass the Domestic Workers B…

Pickles to the Polls! (Brooklyn)

The Jewish Vote Endorses Yuh-Line Niou for Open Seat in New York’s 10th Congressional District

The electoral arm of Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) throws grassroots Jewish support behind New York Assemb…

A Message from Audrey Sasson, JFREJ Executive Director

JTA: ADL condemns NY progressive group Jews for Racial and Economic Justice as ‘out of touch’

Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL faces backlash after sharing Twitter thread delegitimizing the validity of JFREJ members…

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"There’s an electoral left that is surging. It’s taken the establishment a few years to catch up."

Radical Tzedakah: Uncovering Anti-Capitalist Torah

Convergence Magazine: NY Home Care Workers Win Big

Years of organizing led by home care workers, older adults, disabled people and family caregivers put home care on the …

100+ Jewish Leaders & Elected Officials Defend JFREJ from ADL's Attacks

The Forward Opinion: An honest conversation about JFREJ

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Pickles to the Polls in the Bronx!

2022 Primary Election Roundup

We helped to win incredible victories in State Senate primaries for Kristen Gonzalez, Robert Jackson, Gustavo Rivera, a…

135+ NYC faith leaders and groups call on Mayor to #RestoreTheCuts

Faith leaders call on Mayor to “immediately restore $469 million cut from public schools”

5783 Event Series for Members: Israel-Palestine as a Local Issue

We're kicking off 5783 with a participatory process that engages our neighborhood groups, caucuses, campaign teams, all…

The Forward: In a break with tradition, NYC council members head to Israel without their speaker

"A spokesperson for Jews For Racial & Economic Justice, a progressive advocacy group that formed an electoral arm, The …

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Press Release: The People's Plan coalition responds to Mayor Adams' budget modification plan

The proposed modification cuts hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of core agency positions from a city gover…

NY Jewish Week: These Jews are defending Drag Story Hour against far-right protestors. Here’s why.

Protestors were met by hundreds of activists from the other side, many of whom are Jewish. They included members of Jew…

Press Release: The People’s Plan responds to Mayor Adams’ regressive preliminary budget

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Deep Canvass Institute: February Training Series

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While it may be hard to picture today, JFREJ might have disappeared if not for the commitment, vision, and care demonst…

A letter to JFREJ members from Rachel McCullough

After twelve life-changing years, Rachel McCullough will be transitioning out of her staff role at JFREJ in the fall of…

Tirdof: New York Jewish Clergy for Justice

Tirdof: New York Jewish Clergy for Justice is a project of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and Jews For Raci…

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Launching the 2023 People’s Budget Campaign

A broad coalition of grassroots organizations will fight together for a city budget that meets the needs of all New Yo…

The Jewish Vote Announces 2023 City Council Endorsements

The electoral arm of Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) endorses twelve City Council Members for reelection in …

Jewish Currents: What Comes Next for Jews of Color Activism?

"Over the past decade, many progressive Jewish organizations have established programs specifically for nonwhite Jews: …

Black Star News: City Council Pushes Back on Adams' "Austerity Budget"

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Kibitz against the Cuts: JFREJ West Side Meet-up!

Columbia Spectator: Jews for Racial & Economic Justice hosts rally with Shaun Abreu

“Mayor Adams is proposing cuts to essential public institutions like libraries and parks, on public schools,” Chametzky…

March for #CareNotCriminalization

Jacobin: Eric Adams Is Trying to Push More Austerity on New Yorkers Through His Executive Budget

The New York City budget newly proposed by Mayor Eric Adams had little democratic input from average residents in the c…

NY Jewish Week: The End Jew Hatred Movement is spreading across the country — and sparking controversy

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Six Local Grassroots Progressive Jewish Groups on Biden Administration National Strategy on Antisemitism

Progressive Jewish groups in New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan applaud Adminis…

The Mazals 2023: We’re BACK, Baby!

Join us on September 12th from 6-9PM!

Jewish Currents: Why Are Progressive Legislators Opposing New York’s First Anti-Settlement Bill?

This is the first piece of legislation in Albany that actually tackles the question of how Palestine shows up as a loca…

The Times of Israel: Jewish Democrat group targets US Jews to elect far-left progressive candidates

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Reflections on Juneteenth & Black Liberation

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NY Daily News Opinion: Jews, Israel and antisemitism - Biden plan is a good start

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Statement: Jewish New Yorkers Support Reps. Bowman & Ocasio-Cortez Declining to Attend Israeli President Joint Session Speech

Council Outreach for the #HowManyStopsAct

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Report-Back from the 2023 Mazals!

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Statement on escalating violence in Israel-Palestine (Oct 7, 2023)

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Fairness in Accuracy & Reporting: NYT Ignores Dissent to Convey Image of Jewish Unanimity

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Central & South Brooklyn Neighborhood Group Havdalah

We cannot allow our hearts to harden.

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JFREJ Communal Movement, Dance, and Healing Space

Training on Deescalation & Bystander Intervention at Protests

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JFREJ's Israel-Palestine work in 5784

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Watch: Rabbis For Ceasefire at the United Nations

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̶M̶o̶m̶s̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶L̶i̶b̶e̶r̶t̶y̶ out of NYC!

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“As Jews and as New Yorkers, we want real public safety for everyone who lives here. This includes New Yorkers of color…

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice responds to the Governor's executive budget hate crimes proposal

“While hate violence, antisemitism, and Islamophobia are critical issues that New York State must address, expanding th…

JFREJ Winter Membership Assembly: TJV endorsements

The Jewish Vote Endorses Rep. Jamaal Bowman for Reelection to Congress Representing NY-16

The electoral arm of Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ), which organized “Jews for Jamaal” and helped propel Bo…

Progressive Jews Respond to AIPAC and J Street Involvement in Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s NY-16 Congressional Race

The electoral arm of Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) slams establishment organizations for their unprinciple…

It's How Many Stops O'Clock!

How Many Stops Act VETO OVERRIDE VOTE Rally

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice celebrates passage of the How Many Stops Act

Not only did Mayor Adams' divisive disinformation campaign against the How Many Stops Act fail miserably; it backfired.

After a Decade of Organizing to Defeat Stop & Frisk...WE WON!

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NY Daily News Opinion: Using antisemitism to justify unjust policies

JFREJ member Sara Eckhouse writes in New York Daily News about political attempts to manipulate the real threat of anti…

March to Dump AIPAC!

All Eyes on Rafah! Schumer & Biden: Fund UNRWA Now

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Respond to Reps. Nadler & Goldman’s Call for Temporary Ceasefire

May the Jewish values that guide us to take action as Jews for Ceasefire move Reps. Goldman and Nadler, our fellow Jewi…

Democracy Now: New Yorkers Hold Vigil and Reading of the Names of 30,000 Gazans Killed by Israel Since Oct. 7

A number of city councilmembers have appeared at the vigil since it kicked off Wednesday amid an effort to pass a cease…

[SOLD OUT] "The Banality of Evil" Performance & Discussion

Hammer & Hope: Gaza and the Rise of the Jewish Left

“No one can say it’s non-Jews versus Jews when some of the loudest voices and biggest protests are being organized by J…

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice responds to the NYPD killing of 19-year-old Win Rozario

"Year after year, the NYPD responds to New Yorkers in crisis or who they perceive to be in crisis — especially if those…

In These Times Opinion: Sunday's Rally in New York Is Just About Israeli Hostages—that's Not OK

JFREJ Board Member, Rabbi Ellen Lippmann, writes: "I cannot call for the release of the hostages without an explicit de…

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice responds to the decision not to fire NYPD officers who killed Kawaski Trawick

"What happened to Kawaski could happen to any of us. And thanks to Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Caban it will certa…

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice comments on response to Columbia University student protests

In a matter of hours, we have seen the full weight of the New York political establishment, including many who have bee…

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice condemns the NYPD’s militarized response to student protesters

The brutality we are witnessing now is what happens when a mass movement rises up with a message that people in power w…

JFREJ celebrates Justice Committee's 40 years of organizing for police accountability in New York City!

Justice Committee takes on the holiest, most intimate and emotionally challenging work there is: working directly with …

JFREJ x Columbia Faculty Testimony to the NY City Council

JFREJ members and Columbia University faculty described the NYPD's brutal assault on free speech and demanded the disba…

(Virtual) June Manhattan 1&2 Neighborhood Groups: #JewsForEli phone bank to elect Eli Northrup

June Manhattan 1&2 Neighborhood Groups: #JewsForEli Upper West Side coffee & canvass

#JewsForJamaal Phonebank - weekly on Thursdays

June Queens Neighborhood Group: #JewsForClaire & #JewsForKristen Long Island City canvass & dinner

Transphobia isn't Kosher

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June Brooklyn (1, 2E, 2W & 3) Neighborhood Groups: #JewsForEon Bed-Stuy canvass & hangout

(Virtual) Brooklyn June Neighborhood Groups: #JewsForJamaal Phonebank!

The Jewish Vote Responds to "Solidarity PAC"

Solidarity PAC, a pro-Israel PAC backed by Republicans and big real estate interests, has been spending huge amounts to…

#JewsForJamaal Phonebank - weekly on Thursdays

“Now we know how much it costs to buy an election.” Jews for Jamaal Decry Anti-Democratic Juggernaut Spending in NY-16 Primary

Right-wing SuperPACs poured nearly $25 million – much of it from Republican billionaires – into the NY16 primary to def…

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice responds to Mayor Adams' anti-democratic city charter revision

"The last thing New Yorkers need right now is more shady politics, self-dealing, and inept autocratic power plays."

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Condemns Proposed Mask Ban in NY State

"As a Jewish organization committed to disability justice, civil liberties and the right to protest, we are appalled by…

“Unacceptable” - Jews For Racial & Economic Justice respond to FY25 City Budget Vote

“The city budget process is a rigged game, and the budget forced through today is unacceptable.”

Next250: JFREJ Listening Session

Mother Jones: The Activists Targeting Companies That Make Money From Israel’s War

Members of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) staged a fake “press conference” to highlight the Department of D…

Yonkers Times: Protestors take over White Plains lobby of Atlas Air, condemn the company for flying arms in to Israel

“We’ve talked about our Jewish community’s complicity in Israel’s genocide, and we’ve taken action to protest the U.S. …

BK2E Neighborhood Group Seudah Shlishit + Havdalah in the park

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NY1: New Yorkers Call on VP Harris to Support Israel Arms Embargo Ahead of DNC

Watch NY1's coverage of rally and march in downtown Brooklyn organized by JFREJ as well as labor and community organiza…

Yes on 1 Phonebank for the Equal Rights Amendment

Yes on 1 Phonebank for the Equal Rights Amendment

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Calls on Mayor Adams to Resign

New York’s largest grassroots Jewish organization calls on Eric Adams to resign, condemns widespread corruption and abu…

JFREJ Staffing over the Days of Awe

A message from Deputy Director Shifra Sered, with wishes for peace, justice, and sweetness in the coming year. Shana to…

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice responds to Eric Adams’ appearance on The View and comment about Jews, Trump, Hitler

"New York City’s corrupt mayor is using Jews as a political pawn to defend and to curry favor with Donald Trump, while …

JFREJ/The Jewish Vote 2025 Endorsements Kickoff!

Gothamist: NYC councilmembers press Adams’ officials on shelter stay limits for migrants

As administration officials began to testify, about a dozen protesters interrupted the hearing, chanting, “End shelter …

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