Youth Organizing Posts

July 11, 2022
Introducing Our 2022 Summer Interns
JCUA is excited to welcome our three summer interns to the team! Dalya Lessem Elnecave, Julia Stern, and Elie...

June 22, 2022
D’var Torah on Bring Chicago Home
On Saturday, June 4, 2022, Dalya delivered the following D’var Torah at Anshe Emet Synagogue in Chicago. Shabbat Shalom....

April 12, 2022
Ezra Adamski on Lobbying Day in Springfield
It’s easy to forget how great the Midwestern emptiness is once you escape Chicago’s city limits. The city keeps...

March 08, 2022
Or Tzedek teens take on Bring Chicago Home campaign
Throughout Or Tzedek, we’ve been learning about organizing and where it exists on the continuum of change-making. (I’d always...

March 11, 2021
Claire Schwartz on the creation of JCUA’s Youth Organizing Caucus
I was a member of JCUA’s Or Tzedek teen internship program during the summer of 2018, where I learned...