by Jewish Center for Justice | Jan 14, 2020 | Activism, Advocacy, California, JCJ Blog
In 2019, the Jewish Center for Justice advocated for dozens of bills on the state and national level. As we shape our legislative agenda for 2020, let’s take a look back at some of the legislative highlights over the past year. While nearly every bill JCJ backed on...
by Jewish Center for Justice | Jul 12, 2019 | California, Immigration, JCJ Blog
Last Wednesday, July 3, fellow JCJ intern Lindsay Morgenstein and I drove to the Theo Lacy Immigration Detention Center in Orange, California, a facility which serves as a maximum-security jail for immigrant detainees. While I did not go inside, it was clear from what...
by Jewish Center for Justice | Apr 14, 2019 | Activism, Featured, JCJ Blog, Judaism, Voting
By Lindsay Morgenstein I was in high school the first time a friend posed the question that would come to define much of my future trajectory. Asking “Are you a Republican or Democrat?” would soon open my eyes to how politics shapes the world around us. While I was...
by Jewish Center for Justice | Mar 15, 2019 | Activism, Anti-Semitism, Featured, Israel, JCJ Blog
By Gabi Becher Throughout my seven years at a small, warm Jewish elementary school in Los Angeles, I was taught to love being Jewish and to love the state of Israel. The culture, food, language, history and people have always fascinated me. Further, when I met...
