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Adamah is the largest faith-based environmental organization in the US and centers its work around the deep connection between people and planet, adam and adamah. Adamah's mission is to cultivate vibrant Jewish life in deep connection with the earth, catalyzing culture change and systemic change through Jewish environmental education, leadership development, climate action, and immersive experiences. Every day, Adamah inspires and empowers youth, teens, families, and leaders through programs that deeply interweave Jewish tradition and the natural world, creating diverse and inclusive communities, and building a more sustainable future.

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ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal was founded in 1993 and envisions a contemporary Judaism that is joyous, creative, spiritually rich, socially progressive, and earth-aware. This vision arises out of our search for a renewed personal connection to the God of our ancestors and the legacy of our tradition, in service of our higher dreams for the future of our world. The mission of ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal is to fully embrace a contemporary egalitarian Judaism as a profound spiritual practice and social transformer, reaching beyond religious boundaries and institutional structures worldwide. ALEPH brings spiritual vitality and passion into the daily lives of Jews through programs that empower leadership, build communities, and generate powerful experiences and practical resources. There are about 40 network affiliates/communities located both in the US and abroad.

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Ameinu continues to advocate for our values and social justice initiatives, both independently and collectively, with existing partners such as J-Link (the International Progressive Jewish Network), the Progressive Israel Network (PIN), and of course, the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable. Ameinu has been active in new coalitions created for both short and longer term projects. We also continue to support our affiliated entities, The Third Narrative and Project Rozana. Our recent public statements and actions have been on a range of social justice issues, including: LGBTQ+ rights, immigration, terror attacks in Israel, antisemitism, immigration, abortion access, Ukrainian refugees, women’s healthcare, West Bank settlement activity, and academic boycotts against Israel.

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American Jewish World Service is the leading Jewish organization working to fight poverty and defend human rights in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. By supporting hundreds of social change organizations on three continents and advocating for U.S. and international policies for human rights, we respond to pressing global issues — from disasters, authoritarianism, and the climate crisis, to the persecution of women and minorities worldwide. With Jewish values and a global reach, AJWS is making a difference in millions of lives and bringing a more just and equitable world closer for all.  

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Avodah provides Jewish leaders with the tools, experience, and community they need to create change. Through the Service Corps, Justice Fellowship, and Institute for Social Change, Avodah’s programs equip participants with a deep analysis of structural injustice and tools from the Jewish tradition to address them. The 1,500+ Avodah alumni are actively leading the Jewish community to work toward a more just and equitable world.

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Founded in 2001, Aytzim is an all-volunteer grassroots nonprofit with five projects:

→ EcoJews: hosting Jewish environmental cultural events in the San Francisco Bay Area

→ Green Zionist Alliance: connecting the Diaspora to Israeli environmental education and advocacy

→ Jewcology.org: online home and educational library of the Jewish environmental movement

→ Jews of the Earth: local Jewish environmental action and advocacy in the greater Washington, DC, area

→ Shomrei Breishit: Rabbis and Cantors for the Earth: Jewish environmental and interfaith clerical education, action, and advocacy on climate change, as part of a joint project with GreenFaith.

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Bend the Arc is a national Jewish social justice organization with a mission to create a more just and equitable world through Jewish leadership and action. Rooted in Jewish values and a deep belief in inclusive, multiracial democracy, BTA is dedicated to dismantling systems of oppression, advancing racial justice, protecting democracy, and organizing in solidarity for collective liberation. 

BTA is playing a key role in keeping the American Jewish community committed to working across lines of difference and to stay in the coalitions needed to build true multiracial democracy and defeat authoritarianism. BTA’s strategy is multifaceted, combining grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, and leadership development. Through this work, BTA aims to shift narratives, influence public policy, and foster long-term systems change.

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Carolina Jews for Justice is an ever-growing hub for Jewish social justice in North Carolina. We responded to pandemic conditions in North Carolina by co-creating a political education food bank called FedUp -- feeding more than 10,000 people in just six months -- and by joining NC United, a statewide coalition of progressive grassroots organizations demanding relief for people not corporations from North Carolina’s elected leaders. We held our first virtual seder for more than 100 people, and almost 400 people joined our two calls for Southern Jews, gathering people across the region to build community in crisis. We served as a one-stop shop for voting rights information across the state. We even made it on CBS's "This Morning," when a CJJ member talked about her experience as a new poll worker. Finally, we are now a staff of three, with the hire of our first executive director!

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The Central Conference of American Rabbis is the Reform rabbinic professional leadership organization that instills excellence in the Reform Jewish rabbinate and strengthens the Jewish community through religious, spiritual, ethical, and intellectual leadership for the 2,200 rabbis who serve more than 2 million Reform Jews worldwide. Since 1889, the CCAR has led the Reform Movement by amplifying the voice of the Reform Rabbinate on critical religious, social justice, and ethical issues of the day. The CCAR is the center for rabbinic learning, resources, and innovation, providing rabbis with Torah study, professional development, spiritual and emotional well-being, specialized services—placement, pension, mentoring, and transition training—and havruta. The CCAR is also the primary publisher of the Reform Movement through CCAR Press, publishing liturgical resources and texts on Jewish practice, while CCAR Press imprint Reform Judaism Publishing is the steward of the Reform Movement’s sacred texts, Torah Commentaries, and prayer books.

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Rooted in Jewish values, experience, and spirit, Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action is building a movement of American Jews confronting the climate crisis with spiritual audacity and bold political action. Dayenu mobilizes Jewish support for climate solutions, build collective power with national and global movements, and raise up a spiritual, religious, and moral voice. Dayenu is building and sustaining the Jewish climate movement through: an expanding network of grassroots Dayenu Circles across the country; organizational partnerships; and a growing body of Jewish practices and resources to support Jews of all stripes to confront the climate crisis on an existential and spiritual level. Recent campaigns include Chutzpah 2024, Dayenu's nonpartisan GOTV effort, and All Our Might, a new Jewish campaign to end the era of fossil fuels.

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Detroit Jews for Justice envisions a just and joyful future where we and our neighbors live with equal rights, dignity, safety, and access to the resources we all need to thrive. We advance racial and economic justice by developing Metro Detroit Jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with our neighbors. 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. 

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Elluminate is a social justice organization that addresses emergent issues in three ways: (1) The Collective: investing in Jewish women social entrepreneurs and leaders who run their organizations using their Jewish values and a gender lens toward social change; (2) The Visionary Circles: where visionary philanthropists learn about Jewish women leading organizations throughout world and build the field of Jewish feminist funding; and (3) The Network: where activists, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, and supporters break down the false dichotomy between the doers and the donors. Elluminate is proud to invest resources in leaders working toward a more equitable world. (Elluminate is the next generation of the Jewish Women's Foundation of New York).

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Eshel’s mission is to create LGBTQ+ integrative Orthodox Jewish communities so that LGBTQ+ people and their families can be full participants in the Orthodox community of their choice. Eshel drives this change with programming that focuses on community building, support services, education, and advocacy. Eshel builds community for its LGBTQ+ individuals and their families so that they can break isolation, grow, and thrive. Eshel supports LGBTQ+ Orthodox Jewish individuals and families through our warmline, support groups, mentoring, and community network. Eshel educates and raises awareness and sensitivity among Orthodox leaders in shuls, schools, and communities on how to address the needs of their LGBTQ+ members through consultations and training. Eshel advocates for LGBTQ+ people within the Orthodox community so that they can be fully integrated members of their community.

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Footsteps supports and affirms individuals and families who have left, or are contemplating leaving, insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in their quest to lead self-determined lives. These courageous individuals struggle to redefine their lives despite punitive reactions from family and friends, little if any secular education, a lack of experience with modern gender roles, and, in some cases, a limited command of English. Footsteps provides a range of services including social and emotional support, educational and vocational guidance, and workshops and social activities. We uplift Footsteps’ members as experts on their own journeys and create opportunities for members, service providers, academics, allies, philanthropists, fellow travelers, and sister groups from across the world to explore the central questions, opportunities, and needs of the formerly ultra-Orthodox. Footsteps has served over 1,700 members since its founding in 2003.

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Founded in 1935, , Habonim Dror North America is an autonomous Progressive Labor Zionist Youth movement whose mission is to build a personal bond and commitment between North American Jewish youth and the State of Israel, and to create Jewish leaders who will actualize the principles of social justice, equality, peace, and coexistence in Israel and North America.
HDNA runs six summer camps across Canada and the United States, an Israel summer program (MBI), a gap-year program in Israel (Workshop), leadership training seminars, movement convenings, and year-round activities in many areas of North America (called Eizorim/Kenim) based on the pillars of Progressive Labor Zionism, Judaism, Socialism, Social Justice, and Hagshama (actualization of values).

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HIAS is the international Jewish humanitarian organization that provides vital services to refugees, asylum seekers, and other forcibly displaced and stateless persons in more than 20 countries. HIAS advocates for the rights of all forcibly displaced people to rebuild their lives and seek to create a world in which they find welcome, safety, and opportunity.

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The Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life supports, connects, and celebrates Jewish life in the South. An important part of that work is sustaining the vital legacy of the Jewish pursuit of social justice in the South. ISJL’s secular literacy and peer mediation programs empower public school students in Mississippi, and their Jewish Education resources now include programs on Safety, Respect, and Equity (SRE); Pronouns and Gender Identity; Conflict Resolution; and a whole series of Jewish Social Justice learning modules. Internally, ISJL is an organization committed to an ongoing SRE journey and bringing new equity resources to the region.

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J-Teen Leadership is dedicated to empowering and inspiring Jewish teens from all backgrounds with leadership training, core Jewish values, and community service so they can start contributing to the Jewish community and the world - today! J-Teen Leadership provides a platform for teens to develop a collective voice, address issues confronting society, connect to one another, and be change agents in repairing the world. Recognizing that teens are critical thinkers who can mobilize and motivate their peers, J-Teen Leadership programming is teen-led, meaningful, and fun.

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The Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis creates consensus and leads advocacy efforts in the organized Jewish community, ensuring that our voices are amplified and heard. The JCRC builds bridges with other faith, ethnic, civil, and political groups that share its passion for social justice, forging relationships based on the issues the community cares about most.

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Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action pursues social, economic, environmental, and racial justice based on our Jewish values. Their "toolbox" includes community organizing, advocacy, education, and legal strategies. All of JALSA’s work is grounded in relationships, with coalitions that include and are led by impacted groups. Recent campaigns include organizing synagogues and individuals to combat voter suppression around the country; defending abortion rights; fighting for fair taxation; enacting an immigrant driver's license bill; preventing evictions; enacting gun violence prevention laws; and combating childhood hunger. JALSA has created a Jews of Color Initiative, which is bringing together JoC around social justice issues, both in MA and nationally. JALSA also has created curriculum presentations on many of their issue areas, which they deliver to both Jewish and secular audiences.

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Jewish Community Action is the Jewish voice in Minnesota’s movement for economic, racial and social justice. JCA has been organizing with chutzpah since 1995!

JCA organizes in solidarity with other marginalized communities in Minnesota through state and local coalitions, interfaith initiatives, and local neighborhood groups. These relationships drive JCA's investment in and accountability to each other. JCA honors Jewish history and ancestors, commits to a shared future, and activates the Minnesota Jewish community to make real social change.

JCA's current issue-based campaigns include housing justice, decriminalizing communities at the intersection of the criminal and immigration justice systems, combating hate and creating community safety through solidarity, and building a multifaith, multiracial democracy.

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Jewish Community High School of the Bay is committed to pursuing racial justice and integrating education about racism across disciplines. JCHS teaches workshops on identity, power, marginalization, and bystander intervention to all new students. JCHS sends a cohort of its educators and students annually to the People of Color at Independent Schools Conference; require the entire professional community to participate in workshops that include "Systems of Racial Inequity,” "Unpacking Cultural Appropriation," and "Interrupting Bias;" and convene both a White Antiracist Educators group and book club. JCHS’ hiring process for every position includes a screening interview around cultural diversity competence, and its all-school assembly program continues to feature social justice and equity issues such as a recent panel of neighborhood leaders addressing the history of racist policies that led to the displacement of Black individuals and businesses in the Western Addition.

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Since its founding 80 years ago, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs has served as the national convener of Jewish coalitions working to build a just and inclusive democracy — bringing together national and local partners to address the issues that most deeply affect our community and advance our most essential values. Today, JCPA is mobilizing the robust community relations network and its partners in pursuit of a more just society for all, based on an abiding belief that Jewish safety is inextricably linked with the safety of other communities and a strong, pluralistic democracy. This is even more crucial at a moment when rising attempts to normalize antisemitism and other forms of hate and extremism seek to drive wedges between the Jewish community and other targeted groups. JCPA’s work is rooted in the understanding that only by overcoming lines of difference and fostering solidarity across communities can we advance an inclusive future in which Jews – and all people – are safe and free.

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Founded in 1964, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs works to combat poverty, racism, and antisemitism in partnership with diverse communities in Chicago. JCUA brings together the Jewish community to pursue justice with its neighbors across Chicago and Illinois. Rooted in Jewish values, history, and experience, JCUA works to ensure that everyone across the region has safety, dignity, and the resources they need to flourish. Core to its organizational impact is: organizing the Chicago Jewish community to advance racial and economic justice; equipping leaders to shape the future; and building a world free of antisemitism and white supremacy.

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The Jewish Emergent Network exists to amplify each member organization’s work and harness our collective power to inject creative inspiration into and help transform Jewish life. JEN comprises the leaders of seven path-breaking Jewish communities from across the United States who have come together in the spirit of collaboration. These include: IKAR in Los Angeles, Kavana in Seattle, The Kitchen in San Francisco, Mishkan in Chicago, Sixth & I in Washington, D.C., and Lab/Shul and Romemu in New York, and each organization is deeply involved in social justice work on the local, regional, national, and international level, each in their own way. Among JEN’s core shared values is embracing Judaism as a vehicle for justice and claiming a Jewish moral voice.

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The New England Jewish Labor Committee supported the UNITE HERE Local 26 hotel workers during their One Job Should Be Enough campaign and six-week strike of the Marriott Hotels in Boston. The workers were victorious in winning a contract with significant gains in wages, benefits, sexual harassment protections for women, and paid parental leave. The New England Jewish Labor Committee worked behind the scenes to influence and support Jewish organizations to avoid crossing picket lines.

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The Center for Jewish Food Ethics (CJFE) is dedicated to building a food system that does good for all. CJFE creates change by equipping Jewish communities with the resources needed to transition toward sustainable food practices. By normalizing plant-based meals as the default, CJFE helps institutions and individuals align their food choices with the core Jewish values of protecting people, animals, and the environment. Through education, advocacy, and community engagement, CJFE fosters positive change in Jewish communal food culture, supporting a healthier and more resilient food system.

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Jewish Women International (JWI) is the leading Jewish organization championing women and girls* – of every race, culture, ability, gender identity, and sexual orientation – by protecting their rights and safety, strengthening access to long-term economic security, and lifting and mentoring women leaders. We envision a world, free of violence and inequity, where all women and girls thrive.

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A dynamic online feminist organization that shapes discourse and inspires action, the Jewish Women’s Archive (JWA) is the world’s largest source of information about Jewish women. It engages the public in collecting and sharing the stories of Jewish women; offers acclaimed educational curricula, resources, and programs used by educators around the world; trains young women and nonbinary people to develop and voice their opinions and become the leaders of tomorrow; and convenes timely conversations about gender, history, and Jewish culture with a global audience and across multimedia platforms and programs. JWA provides insight and context for today’s world and enables people of all genders and backgrounds to envision a more just and equitable future.

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Jewish World Watch works to end genocide and mass atrocities worldwide by educating and mobilizing individuals, advocating for policy changes and funding projects to support and build resilience in conflict-affected communities. JWW believes the Jewish people must educate ourselves, raise their collective voices, and refuse to stand idly by while atrocities take place. The principles have formed the foundation for the three pillars to our work: Education, Advocacy, and our Projects on-the-ground.

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with their neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy (with playgrounds for all of us)!

For over 30 years, JFREJ members have worked to make the city they love a more caring place, free from all forms of racist violence, where everyone has the opportunity, and resources they need to thrive. A grassroots organization with over 6,000 members and a powerful electoral arm, JFREJ is the home of the New York Jewish Left.

By drawing from Jewish values, diverse histories, with persistence, commitment, and care, the JFREJ community and its partners will dismantle the systems and institutions that perpetuate racism, inequity, and injustice, and grow something new and beautiful in their place.

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Jews United for Justice advances economic, racial, and social justice in Washington, DC, and Maryland by educating and mobilizing its local Jewish communities to action. JUFJ moves the region closer to equity by advancing issue campaigns that make immediate, concrete improvements in people’s lives and build the power of working-class and poor communities of color. Through campaigns JUFJ develops leaders, builds Jewish grassroots community, shifts the consciousness of our community, and builds collective power to undo systemic racism and inequality. One day, everyone in the region will have what they need to thrive and a real voice in democracy, no matter the color of their skin, where they are from, or how much money they have. The Jewish community will help bring about that day through multiracial, multifaith, cross-class movements for justice.

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Jewtina y Co. is an anti-oppressive Latino/x and Jewish organization on a mission to nurture Latin-Jewish community, identity, leadership and resiliency. Collectively, they envision a world in which the global Jewish and Latino/x communities joyfully celebrate their multicultural story and work together to interrupt social inequities. Through their VOCES Storytelling Project, PUENTES Leadership & Resiliency Fellowship, AYNI Healing Circle, community workshops and multilingual learning resources, Jewtina y Co. invites community members of all ages to explore their multifaceted identity in a culturally-responsive and intersectional context.

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jGirls+ Magazine is a global community for Jewish feminist teens to voice their realities, engage with new ideas, and lift each other up as they lead social change.

The online magazine is written by and for self-identifying Jewish girls, young women, and nonbinary teens ages 13-19 across all backgrounds. This platform enables teens to share their voices with the world and each other, and space to hone communication skills, explore identities, talk across difference, and engage with a wide circle of peers on their own terms. jGirls+ creates long-term change and addresses underlying causes of inequity by boosting the capabilities, self-image, and status of young Jewish feminists. In this way, they cultivate the next generation of empowered, committed Jewish feminist community and institutional leaders.

jGirls+ is a community diverse in background, perspective, Jewish identification, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, ability, and interests.

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JOIN is proud to have worked alongside other organizations on this page to pass Amendment 4 in Florida, restoring the right to vote to 1.4 million people with prior felony convictions. JOIN served the campaign through coaching, training, strategy development, and media work.

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Keshet works for the full equality of all LGBTQ Jews and our families in Jewish life. Founded in 1996 as a volunteer-run group in Greater Boston, Keshet today is a national organization that equips Jewish organizations with the skills and knowledge to build LGBTQ-affirming communities, creates spaces in which all queer Jewish youth feel seen and valued, and advances LGBTQ rights. Keshet takes seriously the work of building a world in which people of all races and ethnicities can live in safety and are treated with dignity and respect.

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Kirva equips those dedicated to social change with Jewish ancestral wisdom and practice, empowering personal spiritual growth and transformation while fueling their work for sustainable, effective systemic change. Through courses, cohort experiences, and communal activities grounded in Jewish teachings and texts, participants gain insight and practical tools for approaching social change work as a nourishing spiritual practice. While Kirva draws most heavily from the Mussar and Breslov Chassidic traditions, its programs explore and celebrate spiritual wisdom from the diversity of Jewish lineages and traditions. Kirva envisions a more deeply connected, just, and compassionate world in which Jewish spiritual wisdom, practice, values, and connection with The Sacred are embraced as vital to what drives meaningful social change.  

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One of Meyerson JCC Manhattan’s core values is a commitment to taking responsibility for one another. Its community is bound together by a shared commitment to a better, fairer world, which they put into practice every day, giving back and supporting each other through meaningful actions. The Joseph Stern Center for Social Responsibility mobilizes the resources of the JCC and larger community to address local challenges with an ultimate goal of building a more just, inclusive and equitable world. Jewish learning and practice inform and inspire their approach - and they view the work of social justice itself as a means of living Jewishly.

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Mayyim Hayyim’s mission is to reclaim and reinvent one of Judaism’s most ancient rituals – immersion in the mikveh – for contemporary spiritual use; to teach about this resource to all who are interested; and to make the mikveh a sacred space that is open and accessible to all Jews and those who are becoming Jews.

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Inspired by Jewish values and ideals, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger is a national organization fighting to end hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds in the United States and Israel. MAZON is a leading voice in the anti-hunger field advocating for policy solutions, investing in partnership grants, and engaging with communities to fight for systemic change. Centered in the Jewish value of b’tselem Elohim (respecting the inherent dignity of every person), MAZON shines a spotlight on issues and populations that are often overlooked — this includes military families, veterans, Native Americans, single mothers, LGBTQ seniors, college students, and the people of Puerto Rico and the US territories. MAZON believes that long-term solutions must be built on compassion, mutual support, and meaningful opportunity. Regardless of a person’s circumstance, no one deserves hunger.

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Mitsui Collective works at the intersection of Jewish wellness, spirituality, nature connection, and community building. It seeks to activate models for contemporary Jewish practice centering multi-racial & multi-generational community and embodying Jewish values, ethics, and spirituality all seven days of the week. Mitsui Collective is open to all spiritual seekers while centering its work and community-building around those historically placed at the margins of Jewish life — including but not limited to Jews of Color and non-Ashkenormative Jews, LGBTQ, interfaith/intergroup families, and those of varied socioeconomic status. Mitsui views diversity and representation as a vital building block for a vibrant, resilient community.

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Moving Traditions emboldens Jewish youth by fostering self-discovery, challenging sexism, and forming connections to Jewish life, in partnership with hundreds of synagogues, JCCs, camps, and other Jewish institutions. Its Kol Koleinu Feminist Fellowship, offered in collaboration with NFTY and USY, invites young Jewish feminists to explore and deepen their feminist knowledge, channel their voices to share their beliefs, and use their skills to create tangible change in their communities. Open to Jewish high school students, this year-long fellowship brings together 50+ teens in three regional cohorts to learn about gender analysis, feminism, and social change, to use their expertise to teach their peers, and to complete projects that share their learning and leadership with their greater Jewish communities.

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National Council of Jewish Women has pivoted to providing opportunities to learn, engage, and mobilize online. NCJWebinars are a learning, networking, and skills-building destination for its leaders while the public NCJWebinars focus on policy with members of Congress and other high-level speakers. Digital lobby days bring together organizations and activists to speak with one message on critical issues including voting and abortion. Through its Abortion and Jewish Values Toolkit and Rabbis for Repro campaign, NCJW continues to lead the Jewish community in harnessing faith values to support abortion because of our faith, not in spite of it. NCJW's robust State Policy Advocacy network takes action and lead conversations on equity and justice in its local sections. NCJW is meeting the moment with tools and opportunities for progressive Jews across the country including the Promote the Vote, Protect the Vote 2020 Campaign, a dedicated voter registration tool, and a new federal courts website.

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The Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies is an international membership association of over 165 nonprofit Jewish human service agencies in the United States, Canada, and Israel. Its members provide a full range of human services for the Jewish community and beyond, including healthcare, employment, and mental health services, as well as services for youth, families, and older adults, Holocaust survivors, immigrants and refugees, persons with disabilities and family caregivers. The Network advances the work of its members through public sector advocacy, best practices, innovation, research, and strategic public and private sector partnerships. The Network serves as a thought leader and partner with other national human service associations and with funders to address challenges facing the Jewish human service sector and give voice to people in need.

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The New Israel Fund protects and advances democracy, human and civil rights, and progressive values in Israel. NIF was founded in 1979 to actualize the vision of Israel’s founders: a Jewish and democratic state that, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, “ensures complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex.” NIF has provided over $350 million to more than 900 cutting-edge organizations since its inception, creating the foundation of civil society working to advance democracy and equality in Israel. NIF and its grantees have made significant progress on a broad range of issues, from cultivating Jewish-Arab partnership to nurturing the movement providing alternatives to state-sanctioned ultra-Orthodox Judaism, to keeping Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories in the public’s awareness, to successful legal victories on issues of ethnic, religious, and gender discrimination.

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New York Jewish Agenda represents and amplifies the voice of New York’s liberal Jewish community. Founded in 2020, NYJA is the advocate, organizer, and convener for liberal Jewish New Yorkers to impact state and local policies, politics, and Jewish communal discourse. NYJA also provides a political home for Jewish New Yorkers whose personal and political values motivate them to promote social justice, combat antisemitism, and support Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, prioritizing a peaceful and just outcome in the region. NYJA’s Leaders Network includes more than 100 elected officials and community leaders who broadly support NYJA’s values, mission, and work on its key issue areas.

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The Rabbinical Assembly is the international association of Conservative/Masorti rabbis. The mandate of the Rabbinical Assembly is to kindle the passion of the Jewish People in the service of God, Torah and Klal Yisrael, to strengthen the Conservative/Masorti movement, and to support the Conservative/Masorti rabbi. Its nearly 1,700 members serve as congregational rabbis, educators, military and hospital chaplains, professors of Judaica, and officers of communal service organizations throughout the world. The Rabbinical Assembly is active in interfaith activities and in promoting and supporting projects of tzedakah, gemilut hesed and social justice. Through the foundation of and commitment to the Conservative/Masorti Social Justice Commission, it convenes leaders from across the movement to create a central address for educating, advocating, and organizing for social justice guided by our unique Torah and values. This allows for a stronger impact within the movement, the broader Jewish community, and the world at large.

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Reconstructing Judaism is the central organization of the Reconstructionist movement. It trains the next generation of rabbis, supports and uplift congregations and havurot, fosters emerging expressions of Jewish life, and encourages people to be their best selves — always helping to shape what it means to be Jewish today and to imagine the Jewish future. Reconstructionists approach Judaism — and life — with deep consideration of the past and a passion to relate it to the present. It has originated many of the core innovations of today’s Judaism and lead efforts to make congregations and havurot even more groundbreaking, inclusive, and relevant.

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The Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association was established in 1974. Comprised of over 300 rabbis, the RRA has three primary missions: 1. It serves as a collegial community, in which professional and personal support and resources are provided to rabbis. 2. The RRA represents the rabbinic voice within the Reconstructionist movement, bringing the teachings, stories, and traditions of Judaism to bear on contemporary issues and challenges, and helping to define Reconstructionist positions on Jewish issues for our time. 3. The RRA represents the Reconstructionist rabbinate to the larger Jewish and general communities, through participation in programs, commissions, and other activities.

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In 2019, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism trained over 4,000 Reform Jews to organize for social justice through its L’Taken Teen Social Justice Seminar, the Consultation on Conscience, state lobby days, and webinars. The Kraus Family Foundation’s support allowed the RAC to create the Kraus Initiative for Immigrant and Refugee Justice to galvanize greater action amidst the immigration and refugee crisis. At its Biennial, the URJ became the first major Jewish denomination to adopt a resolution calling for the study of US slavery reparations. The RAC launched a network of student leaders supporting gun violence prevention and partnered with Women of Reform Judaism to create a campaign focused on reproductive health and rights.

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Repair the World mobilizes Jews and their communities to take action to pursue a just world, igniting a lifelong commitment to service. Repair believes service in support of social change is vital to a flourishing Jewish community and an inspired Jewish life. By 2030, Repair will inspire and catalyze one million acts of service towards repairing the world

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Once a noble Jewish ethic of peace in the home, the term shlom bayit has come to imply that Jewish families do not experience violence. When this myth is shattered, the community has blamed women for their failure to maintain the image of a “perfect Jewish family.” Shalom Bayit hopes to spread a new message—not of keeping the family together at all costs, but of the right to true peace, safety, and sanctuary in one’s own home. Shalom Bayit’s mission is to foster the social change and community response necessary to eradicate domestic violence in the Jewish community. It strives to create effective, culturally-based strategies to improve Jewish community accountability and response to domestic violence. It supports and advocates on behalf of Jewish battered women and their children; educates the Jewish community and its leadership about domestic violence; empowers Jewish youth with the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy relationship choices; organizes effective abuse prevention and intervention strategies; and improves Jewish women’s access to domestic violence services.

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Society for Humanistic Judaism launched Jews for a Secular Democracy, a new, pluralistic initiative that seeks to galvanize the Jewish community to defend the separation of church and state. Government policy on so many of the issues Jews care about including LGBTQ equality, reproductive rights, and even climate-change science are being strongly influenced by religious fundamentalism. Jews have a unique role in protecting First Amendment religious freedoms and this initiative also opposes “religious freedom” laws that allow businesses to discriminate against customers they object to on religious grounds. SHJ also advocates for the rights of secular Americans as a founding member of the Secular Coalition for America and seeks greater inclusion of openly non-theistic Jews in the broader Jewish community.

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T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights brings the Torah’s ideals of human dignity, equality, and justice to life by empowering rabbis and cantors to be moral voices and to lead Jewish communities in advancing democracy and human rights for all people in the United States, Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories. T’ruah does this in three ways: 1) Organizing its network of 2,300 rabbis, cantors, and their communities to make an impact through specific human rights campaigns; 2) Training rabbinical and cantorial students and rabbis and cantors to be powerful human rights leaders; and 3) Amplifying the voices of rabbis and cantors on the pressing human rights concerns of our time.

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The Den Collective co-creates a Judaism that is relevant, accessible, and deeply rooted in tradition in partnership with people throughout DC, Maryland, and Virginia. The Den fosters intentional spaces of belonging and self-exploration, through one-to-one rabbinic relationships, deep learning, and customized experiences in intimate settings. The Den strives to be collaborative, experimental, transparent, and radically welcoming.

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The Senesh School is an open and inclusive Jewish day school in Brooklyn, NY, where K-8 students from all different backgrounds are growing into ever more curious, kind, and confident people.

Senesh embraces the unique gifts and identities of each child. By creating an environment that cultivates critical thinking, rewards curiosity, and centers a sense of belonging, Senesh guides students on a journey of intellectual, emotional, physical, social, and spiritual growth.

Guided by core Jewish values, Senesh students learn with joy, live with conviction, and find their community. 

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The Shalom Center reimagines Jewish holidays as portals for public prophetic action. Through actifests, or “activist festivals,” it is building a national movement of sacred justice rooted in the Jewish calendar cycle. After 41 years as a prophetic voice in Jewish, multi-religious, and American life, its next chapter seeks to transform the way American Jews celebrate and observe Jewish holidays by investing in local leadership, experimenting with post-activism, and embodying a different kind of world.

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Tikkun Ha-Ir of Milwaukee is an umbrella Jewish social justice and social action organization with 10 Jewish sponsor organizations that together seek to build a more just community through study, action, and civic engagement. THI’s programs focus on four main areas: food justice, volunteerism, civic engagement, and Jewish social justice education. Recently, THI has served 350 meals a week from donated produce through the Veggie Chop Shop summer season, led a racial justice training series for the Jewish community and worked in partnership to grow participation in non-partisan Get Out the Vote efforts as leaders in a state-wide interfaith GOTV group.

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Significant growth in the number of Gap Year participants allowed Tivnu: Building Justice to spread 1000 volunteer hours per participant to eight new sites, including Portland’s Criminal Justice Reform Clinic, Street Roots newspaper, Jobs with Justice, and Outside the Frame homeless youth video project. Tivnu has also doubled its national reach, with seven 3-10-day programs engaging school and synagogue groups from across the country.

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Tzedek Lab is the only organization dedicated to resourcing and aligning individual leaders on the Jewish Left.

A  national multiracial network, Tzedek Lab fortifies Jewish and allied movement practitioners by coordinating tactics, sharing learnings, and building the network of relationships needed to fight antisemitism, racism, and white supremacy. 

Through convenings, communities of practice, identity-based caucus spaces, evolving shared political analysis, spiritual care calls, and intentional network-weaving and cross-pollination infrastructure, Tzedek Lab supports over 300 member practitioners with the relational webbing & concrete tools needed to sustain the Jewish progressive movement for justice and liberation.

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In 2019, the Union for Reform Judaism expanded its work in audacious hospitality, furthering its work addressing systemic oppression and systems of privilege and striving to create more equitable and inclusive Jewish communities. The URJ launched the 2019-2020 JewV’Nation Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership Cohort as well as its new “Wholly Jewish” podcast featuring April Baskin and the 2018 JewV’Nation Jews of Color Leadership Cohort. The URJ led DEI trainings for Reform Jewish leaders in congregations, camps, and at the URJ Biennial, and made significant institutional commitments to equity and inclusion work throughout the organization, including staff-wide DEI trainings and working groups.

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Urban Adamah recently re-launched its Free Farm Stand through which the organization has donated over 30,000+ lbs of organic produce to community members who may not otherwise have access to healthy vegetables. Community partners provided free health screenings, nutrition demonstrations, Cal Fresh (food stamps) application services and other community resources. Urban Adamah has also been cultivating a relationship with the Native communities of the East Bay.

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Uri L'Tzedek is an Orthodox social justice organization guided by Torah values and dedicated to combating suffering and oppression. Through community-based education, leadership development, and action, Uri L’Tzedek creates discourse, inspires leaders, and empowers the Jewish community towards creating a more just world. Uri L'Tzedek, working in coalition, is proud to have helped more than 40,000 asylum seekers reach their families as they were released from ICE. A significant aspect to engender change in one's communities is the commitment to discuss difficult issues that affect the community the most. Uri L'Tzedek is proud to have launched its Anti-Racism Campaign in an effort to educate the Orthodox community and to stamp out latent racism in Orthodox institutions. Its Tav HaYosher program dignifies workers and stands up for their rights. Fueled by Jewish values, Uri L'Tzedek believes in working in collaboration and coalition with like-minded organizations to stand up against various systems of oppression and bring tangible change to its communities.

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Wilderness Torah promotes healing, belonging, and resilience – awakening and celebrating earth-based Jewish traditions through inclusive and intergenerational village-building

.Wilderness Torah’s vision is for a vibrant, resilient world, where humanity remembers how to care for each other and our precious earth.

Wilderness Torah offers community and youth programs year-round. From its Passover in the Desert festival, High Holiday retreats, Sukkot In-Gathering, and Kabbalat Shabbats, to immersive nature-based adventures for tots, kids, adolescents, and teens, Wilderness Torah reconnects community with the earth-based traditions of Judaism.

Through its work, Wilderness Torah strives to build a village inclusive of all people.

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The Workers Circle (formerly the Workmen’s Circle) is a national, secular, Jewish social justice organization founded in 1900 by Eastern European immigrants who came to the US fleeing autocracy and seeking democratic freedoms. For more than 122 years, the Workers Circle has organized grassroots power within and beyond the progressive Jewish community to win democratic advances in civil rights, worker rights, and immigrant rights in the US. Our dynamic, inclusive, intergenerational community of activists is committed to fighting the rise of fascist politics and demanding a democracy that represents and protects all Americans.

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YAFFED’s mission is to ensure that Haredi and Hasidic Yeshivas in New York deliver a sound basic education to their students. There are currently over 65,000 Yeshiva students across New York who are being denied access to a basic English, math, science, and social studies education in their respective schools. YAFFED’s vision is that Haredi and Hasidic yeshiva students receive the education and skills for long-term personal growth and self-sufficiency, enabling them to contribute meaningfully to their communities. Founded by graduates of Hasidic Yeshivas, YAFFED seeks to create systemic change using a five-pillared strategy of advocacy, awareness, legal action, organizing, and power building. YAFFED will continue to exist until all Hasidic school children are finally granted educational equality. 

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