VOTE 2020: Check for your Mail-in Ballot!!
If you live in California, chances are that you have already received your mail-in ballot for the 2020 election. If you have, you can fill it out and return it to one of your area’s secure ballot drop-off locations. Vote-by-Mail Ballot Drop Boxes and...
INSPIRING: Rabbi’s d’var Torah on loneliness and Jews of Color
JCJ Clergy Cohort member and Temple De Hirsch Sinai Rabbi Avi Fine delivered the following d’var Torah on Yom Kippur this year. Watch the full clip below. One particular excerpt stands out, beginning at 7:01: Through tfillah and tzadakah, we can split the sea of...
A Vidui (Confession) for Racism
Each year on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, we beat our chests and engage in a communal confession. Looking back on a year, it can be difficult to pinpoint specific mistakes or failures. The beauty of a communal confession is that we take on all these failures...
COVID-19: A Timeline of Justice Issues
Before COVID-19 began fundamentally altering our way of life, the Jewish Center for Justice had a very ambitious legislative agenda that targeted policy issues such as economic justice, housing, gender equality, the environment, and more. Then the onset of the...