Member Organizations
Carolina Jews for Justice (North Carolina)
CJJ is a grassroots organization committed to creating a more just, fair, and compassionate North Carolina. Founded in 2013, Carolina Jews for Justice has four chapters across the state. We work on issues such as voting rights, reproductive justice, community safety, immigrant justice, and fighting antisemitism and white nationalism.
Detroit Jews for Justice (Michigan)
Detroit Jews for Justice organizes the Jewish community in Metro Detroit to participate in movements for racial and economic justice. We are an organizing home for Jews of all denominations and backgrounds - Jewish parents, queer and trans Jews, Jews by choice, Jews of color, disabled Jews, Jewish elders, Jewish youth, and Jewish allies.
Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action (Massachusetts)
JALSA puts our Jewish values into action by engaging the Jewish community and our allies in the pursuit of social, economic, environmental, and racial justice. As a grassroots, membership-driven nonprofit organization, our efforts to create a more just and equitable society are powered by relationships in both the public policy and Jewish communities, as well as through connections to thousands of activists across the state. Our robust, intergenerational network of individuals, clergy, and Jewish organizations makes it possible for us to use our toolbox of community organizing, advocacy, legal strategies, and educational workshops to achieve impactful and sustainable social and legislative change.
Jewish Community Action (Minnesota)
Jewish Community Action's mission is to bring together Jewish people from diverse traditions and perspectives to promote understanding and take action on racial and economic justice issues in Minnesota. We work in partnerships with local coalitions, interfaith initiatives, neighborhood groups, and minority and immigrant groups working for social and economic justice in our region. We believe in working collectively and acting as allies, directly addressing the root causes of poverty, racism, and injustice. We know that being in relationship with one another will make us more invested in and accountable to each other. We train teams of committed volunteer leaders, who take this work inward to their congregations as well as outward into the broader community. Our work is driven by our Jewish values; as we honor our history and ancestors, we commit to our shared future and our own power to make real social change.
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs (Illinois)
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs bring together the Jewish community to pursue justice in partnership with our neighbors across Chicago and Illinois. Rooted in Jewish values and experiences, we work to ensure that everyone in our region has safety, dignity, and the resources we need to flourish. We organize our people and resources to advance racial and economic justice. We equip leaders with the tools and support they need to shape the future. We build a world free of antisemitism and white supremacy.
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (New York)
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Community (JFREJ Community) is the central multiracial, multi-ethnic, intergenerational grassroots social justice organization working in New York City’s Jewish community, with its work extending beyond the city to all of New York state. Over its thirty years, JFREJ Community has contributed to campaigns benefiting the lives of millions of New Yorkers, and has become a linchpin of New York’s social movement ecosystem. JFREJ Community co-founded the New York Caring Majority, is a core member of Communities United for Police Reform, and a founding member and fiscal sponsor of The People's Plan NYC, a new coalition uniting the progressive grassroots for an equitable and sustainable New York City. With six thousand members, hundreds of whom participate regularly in JFREJ Community actions, campaign teams, and neighborhood groups, and a reach far beyond that including an email list of thirty thousand subscribers, JFREJ Community is a central part of the lives of many New York Jews, as well as a movement leader working in deep collaboration with partners.
Jews United for Justice (Maryland and Washington, DC)
Jews United for Justice mobilizes Jews and the Jewish community to move our region closer to social, racial, and economic justice by advancing campaigns for immediate and concrete improvements in people’s lives. Through these campaigns we develop leaders, build our base, shift the consciousness of our community, and alter relations of power. In all cases, we seek to work in partnership with organizations made up of and/or accountable to those who have personal experience with the challenges we are hoping to address. We have helped win higher minimum wages, paid family leave, police accountability, affordable housing, and many other progressive policies. We continue to move resources and power into the hands of people of color who have been systematically blocked out of the political process to benefit the ultra-wealthy and their interests. To power our advocacy efforts, we build a Jewish community that is dedicated to pursuing justice, understands the key issues in our region, and that has the tools and skills to make change.
Bend the Arc is a movement of tens of thousands of progressive Jews across America who are working together to achieve our vision: to transform our country to be inclusive, equitable, and supportive of the dignity of every person across race, class, gender and faith. We believe in the beautiful but unfulfilled promise of this country as a land of opportunity, justice, and equality for all. We believe there’s no acceptable level of racial injustice or economic inequality in our society. And we believe it’s imperative that American Jews be part of the solution by working in solidarity and in partnership with communities who are directly impacted by injustice.
For more than six decades, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (the RAC) has worked to educate, inspire, and mobilize the Reform Jewish community to advocate for social justice. We mobilize around federal, state, provincial, and local legislation on more than 70 pressing socioeconomic issues, including gun violence prevention, immigration, reproductive rights, and criminal justice reform. As a joint instrumentality of the Union for Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, we represent the values of the largest and most diverse Jewish Movement in North America to governments at all levels. As part of a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, our work is nonpartisan.