Home   |   About JCA   |  Calendar   |   Contact Us

Home
About JCA
   History
   Mission
   Board of Directors
   Staff
   Rabbinic Advisors
Organize!
   Affordable Housing
   Community Reinvestment
   Congregational Organizing
   Immigrant Rights
   Racial Justice
   Indie Jews
   Seeds of Justice Fellowship
   Hekhsher Tzedek
   Postville
   Progress by Pesach
   Central Corridor
   Health Care
   Kol - Voice - Golos
Publications
   Quarterly Newsletter
   Annual Report
Calendar
Contact JCA
Join JCA
Links
Photos and Press

Interior of only remaining synagogue in Vilna, Lithuania,

by Victor Bloomfield
 

Kaddish for a World Destroyed,
an exhibit of 28 photographs of Jewish sites in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia by Victor Bloomfield, will open at the

St. Paul Jewish Community Center on

September 1st and run through October 17th.

A reception, slide show, and gallery tour will be held on

Tuesday, September 14th, from 7 to 9pm.

Proceeds from the sales of the photos will benefit

Jewish Community Action.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Welcome!

Jewish Community Action brings Minnesota’s Jews to work with the

broader community to generate positive social change.

Please consider becoming a member, subscribing to our email updates,

and participating in our work:

Reforming our nation’s immigration system: We’ve helped extend

Liberian refugees’ right to stay in the U.S., and now we’re helping them

on a path to permanent residency. We’re also helping Latino immigrants

find ways to access basic public services.

Seeds of Justice is JCA’s new social justice fellowship for high school students.

Students learn ways to create lasting change in communities, while shadowing

ommunity organizers—all in a Jewish context.

VOICE builds leadership among Russian-speaking, Jewish elderly,

who face multiple barriers here in the U.S. Through education, arts, and

Jewish programs that they lead themselves, this community is organizing itself,

developing its own voice, & learning its own power.

Light rail along University Avenue. It should be a great thing for everyone, right?

But not if the stops are a mile apart in neighborhoods that need them most.

JCA took part in the Stops for Us coalition, which obtained a commitment

for three additional stops, so stations will be only ˝ mile apart.

Preventing foreclosures. Keeping people in their homes. Ensuring the

strength of neighborhoods. JCA helped found the Northside Community

Reinvestment Coalition to do all these things, while helping mortgage

lenders improve their practices.

Indie Jews is a community without a congregation that meets for monthly

Shabbat dinners and social justice talk and gets involved in JCA initiatives.  

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

JCA's 2009 Annual Report is now available online.

Read it here.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Jewish Community Action's mission is to
bring together Jewish people from diverse traditions and
 perspectives to promote understanding and take action
 on social and economic justice issues in Minnesota.

SUPPORT JCA

Join Now!

UPCOMING EVENTS
 

Indie Shabbat

Friday, August 6th, 6:30pm
Jenn's House, Eagan, MN
RSVP and more info: Carin Mrotz

I Am Minneapolis/Soy Minneapolis
(Municipal ID Campaign)
Next meeting:

Wednesday, August 18th, 6pm
Family and Children's Service
4123 East Lake Street, Minneapolis
Join us as we build this campaign for immigrant rights in Minneapolis!

Seeds of Justice Fellowship for

High School Students -

Applications now available for 2010-’11 academic year.

JCA Healthcare Working Group...Newcomers welcome!
Next meeting Weds., Sept. 1st, 7pm at JCA.
Single payer in MN?

County-based purchasing?

Early implementation of federal reform?

Help us determine our direction!
FMI: Adele Brown or Melissa Rudnick.

HEADLINES

A federal judge has blocked key provisions of the controversial Arizona law, SB 1070, aimed at undocumented immigrants.
Read an article about this here.

Postville Update -

Plant Manager Sentenced

A federal judge has sentenced former head of Agriprocessors Sholom Rubashkin to 27 years. Read the full story here.

Jewish Community Action publishes an annual Jewish social justice calendar. You or your business can support JCA and gain visibility to 1,000 local households by purchasing an ad or a date square.

TAKE ACTION NOW
 

Join us monthly

at a vigil to support those detained

for immigration violations.

Sunday, August 1st, 2:30-3pm

Ramsey County Adult Detention Center

425 Grove St., St. Paul

For more information: Vic, 651-632-2184.

Let Congress know you support

immigration reform.

Sign this electronic postcard .

Prevent foreclosures with JCA:

We will doorknock, negotiate with

lenders, and push for federal

lending reforms.

FFI/RSVP: Dave, 651-632-2184.