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Budget season just ended in Montgomery County! While the final budget reflects many of our priorites, the County Executive and County Council passed a budget that continues to invest in policing, [...]

Shavuot is the Jewish holiday celebrating the harvest and the day the Jewish people received the Torah at Mt. Sinai. Shavuot is traditionally celebrated with a tikkun leil, or a night of [...]

Police do not keep our children safe in school, and they have harmed too many Montgomery County students already. Tell the County Council and County Executive to support truly Police Free Schools.

It’s budget season in Montgomery County! This is an opportunity to envision a Just Recovery for our County -- a recovery that provides dei machsoro, resources sufficient for each person’s needs, [...]

This past Friday, March 26, 2021, the Montgomery County Police Department released body camera footage from a horrific incident in January 2020. The footage, which was nearly an hour long, [...]

Our partners at Bonimot Tzedek are asking for social workers to replace police in Montgomery County Public Schools

Join JUFJ's 2021 "Don't Kvetch, Organize!" cohort and learn all about community organizing with JOIN for Justice and JUFJ!

We need to move away from punitive hierarchies—systems which reflect racial inequities, as has been the case in Montgomery County. We must implement effective models of Restorative Justice.

Jewish tradition teaches us that destroying one life is akin to destroying the entire world. Police violence and systemic racism against Black and brown people have already destroyed too many [...]

Police in schools have led to the criminalization of ordinary student behavior, disproportionately targeting Black boys and students with disabilities. This systemic injustice is already a danger [...]