Meet the JCJ High School Interns Impacting Our Community
Every summer the Jewish Center for Justice convenes emerging teen leaders through camps, workshops and youth movements and teaches them to advocate on justice issues through public speaking, coalition building and lobbying. From making calls to Congress to...
Jewish Justice Group Responds to Supreme Court Nomination
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 11, 2018 Contact: Max Rosenblum 818-304-4551 LOS ANGELES — In response to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, Rabbi Joel Thal Simonds, Executive Director of the Jewish Center for...
VP of LA Schools and JCJ Board Member co-authors resolution in support of immigrant families and children
When the humanitarian crisis of separating immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border began last month, the Jewish Center for Justice community immediately voiced our collective outrage at this immoral practice. Words of condemnation for this...
When we separate children from their parents, we are rejecting the very ideals we hold dear
When we separate children from their parents, we are rejecting the very ideals we hold dear By JCJ Summer Intern Sam Wolf. Over the past month, the Trump Administration has been deliberately separating parents from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border....