The 2021 Mazals!
This year's honorees have been at the frontlines working to build a New York that’s home to all of us.
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News
ABC News, Channel 7: Advocates rally for better wages for home health care workers in New York
ABC7 Covers the Caring Majority relaunch of #FairPay4HomeCare in NYC
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#JFREJ in the Media
#Worker Power
#Disability Justice
The NY Jewish Week: Jewish leaders to Sen. Schumer: Paid leave must be part of Build Back Better legislation
"Care is infrastructure. It doesn’t matter how sturdy a bridge is; you can’t cross it if you can’t leave the house.”
#JFREJ in the Media
#Caring Majority
Trans Day of Remembrance 2021
November 20, 2021 is the annual Trans Day of Remembrance/Resilience, when we honor the memory of those killed in acts o…
#NYC Against Hate
#Statements
JFREJ Responds to NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer's Threat to Divest from Ben & Jerry's
We hear the echoes of McCarthyism loud and clear. We call on all of our elected officials to stop pandering long enough…
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#Antisemitism
Remembering Beloved JFREJ Member Jessica Faye Hirsch (z"l)
JFREJ and The Jewish Vote are shattered by the recent death of member Jessica Faye Hirsch (Penina Rachel bat Esther v'D…
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International Street Vendor Day!
JFREJ is participating in NYC's first-ever street vendor scavenger hunt to raise money for our friends at the Street Ve…
#Freedom to Thrive
#Culture & Ritual
#Worker Power
What Have JFREJ Members Been Up To Lately?
Watch the Fall 2021 Membership Assembly Slideshow
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#Program Updates
The Jewish Vote Continues a Century-Long Legacy of NYC Jewish Left Organizing
NYC's first Muslim woman in City Council, the first JFREJ member elected to citywide office, and more.
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JFREJ Members Join Hunger Strike to #EndCabbieDebt
The New York Taxi Workers Association and allies are on a hunger strike to demand debt relief from the city.
#Press Release
#Worker Power
Climate Activists Shut Down FDR & West Side Highway - The Jewish Week via JTA
"The Manhattan highways protest was organized by Sunrise Movement NYC, in collaboration with JFREJ, Extinction Rebellio…
#JFREJ in the Media
30+ Climate Activists Arrested Blocking Major NYC Highways, Demand Biden Include Climate in Build Back Better Plan
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice joined Sunrise Movement NYC, Extinction Rebellion NYC, and Free Our Future NYC for t…
#JFREJ in the Media
#Press Release