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ABC Eyewitness News: New York elected leaders call for passage of 'Fair Pay for Home Care' bill
JFREJ members, elected leaders, older adults, disabled people, and home care workers came together in Midtown on Tuesda…

PHOTOS: New Yorkers Rally Agains Mayor Adams' Cruel and Dangerous Mental Health Plan
Plus: A Letter from NYC Rabbis urging Mayor Adams to Rescind Initiative Directed at Unhoused New Yorkers

RECORDED LIVE: An Arts Spectacular
Tune into An Arts Spectacular, JFREJ's 2022 Winter Fundraiser!

Dori Midnight's Guide to Making Your Own Protective Jewish Amulet
Protection Made by Hand: Make your own amulets

Harlem World Magazine: NYC Rabbis Urge Mayor Adams To Rescind Initiative Directed At Unhoused NYers
The letter’s signers urge Adams to instead invest in social service programs like housing and mental health support.

City & State: Eric Adams is in Qatar. Council members are in Israel. Who's paying?
“This is an ongoing practice of pressuring local lawmakers to travel to Israel on these trips and to use that participa…

WNYC: Donald Trump, Ye, and The New Old Anti-Semitism
JFREJ's Leo Ferguson is interviewed by Brooke Gladstone for an episode of On The Media about antisemitism

The Forward: Why didn’t organizers of mayoral summit on antisemitism tell the public about it?
"Unlike Mayor Adams, most New Yorkers can’t just take all-expenses-paid trips funded by conservative lobbyists and the …

Black Star News: Mayor Adams' Plan to Forcibly Detain New Yorkers with Mental Illness is "Dangerous"
"Mayor Adam’s involuntary hospitalization directive and overall approach to 'psychiatric crisis care' expands the crimi…

The #FairPay4HomeCare Statewide Tour
The New York Caring Majority coalition is relaunching the Fair Pay for Home Care Campaign with at statewide tour!

The Forward: In a break with tradition, NYC council members head to Israel without their speaker
"A spokesperson for Jews For Racial & Economic Justice, a progressive advocacy group that formed an electoral arm, The …