Tell our new County Executive about our priorities for Montgomery County: racial equity policies, safety for immigrant residents, funding for early-childhood education.
Real policy change involves elected officials at all levels of local government. Here are the basics about how we vote in Washington, DC.
Last week, JUFJ-Baltimore held another of our monthly community convenings--this one zooming in on the election.
When I think about social justice, I feel I have come to terms with what it means to work towards change in many of my identities — as a white person, as a cisgender man, and as a queer person to [...]
The Jeremiah Fellowship helped Julia to see social activism as an inherently Jewish act. Want to learn about social, economic, and racial injustice in Baltimore, and how to address these issues [...]
Since 1998, Jews United for Justice (JUFJ) has worked to put “labor” back into Labor Day by engaging our local Jewish communities in a collective conversation about our texts, our historical [...]
Do you want to learn more about the local political landscape? To gain a deeper understanding of social, racial, and economic justice? To be in community with people who care about issues you [...]
The Community Building and Education team is made up of some of the talented educators and planners that bring you all of the fabulous programming JUFJ puts on, from the Social Justice Seder to [...]
I was a Jeremiah Fellow in the 2014-2015 cohort. Jeremiah is how I connected to my family's history, and how I found my Jewish community in Baltimore.Learn about racial and social injustice [...]
Rabbi Tarfon and the Elders were once reclining in the upper story of Nitza’s house, in Lod, when this question was asked of them: Is study greater or is action greater? Rabbi Tarfon answered and [...]
