Take Action : Help the U.S. fund the United Nations Population Fund
Take ACTION by contacting your U.S. Representative, and urging them to support H.R. 3938. Find your U.S. Representative here. Sample script: Hello, my name is [your name], and I am calling today to urge [U.S. Representative name] to support H.R. 3938, also called the...
Perspective: What I’ve learned after two weeks of my JCJ fellowship
The first thing I did when my JCJ summer fellowship began was compare JCJ’s agenda with the Supreme Court decisions expected to be released in June 2023. I thoroughly researched each topic that was presented to the court this past session, which included voting...
Meet the 2023 Micah D. Bycel Summer Legislative Fellows
My name is Hannah Pomerantz and I am a Rabbinic Legislative Fellow this summer. I am currently a third-year student at the Los Angeles Campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. I have previously been involved in political work, including an...
Pride Month Legislative Update: 525+ anti-LGBTQ bills introduced so far in 2023
People with expansive gender identities have been part of the Jewish community for as long as Jewish legal tradition has existed, evident in the documentation of discussions among ancient rabbis regarding the role of androgynous and intersex individuals in Jewish...