In 2026, JFREJ is organizing to:

1. Secure $30 million in funding for non-carceral hate violence prevention to provide the resources New Yorkers need to begin building the durable safety infrastructure that will make this city a happier, healthier, safer home for all of its residents.

2. Fight back against anti-democratic "buffer zone" legislation designed to silence speech and criminalize protest in the name of Jewish safety at both the city and state levels. Click here to read our joint statement opposing Intros 001/175 in the City Council.

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NYC Against Hate Coalition

In 2019, we formed the NYC Against Hate Coalition for communities to come together, protect each other, and fight identity-based violence.

NYC Against Hate is a diverse coalition of community-based organizations working across identities to make New York safer for our communities. Convened by Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) and the New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP), NYC Against Hate includes the Audre Lorde Project, Arab American Association of New York, Brooklyn Movement Center, the Center for Anti-Violence Education, Desis Rising Up & Moving,, Global Action Project, Make The Road New York, and the Center for Anti-Violence Education. Together, we worked to lead:

Bystander/upstander intervention trainings to empower community members to ally themselves with victims when an incident of hate or harassment is underway in public.
Community-based, culturally competent reporting of hate violence incidents. Marginalized communities feel safest reporting incidents to community-based organizations, which can help them to make a safety plan and determine whether or not they would like to report to law enforcement or another city agency.
Community care, including community-led transformative justice processes that focus on challenging and transforming the perspectives of people who do harm in our neighborhoods, as well as counseling and peer support services for survivors of violence.
Rapid incident responses that may include community alerts, town hall meetings, neighborhood safety events, and will also create space for targeted school-based and neighborhood education across multiple identities.