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Reflecting on a Year of Organizing

August 8, 2016
| By JCUA Admin
Categories: About JCUA, Civic Engagement, Community Issues, Economic Justice, Endorsements, Guest Blog Posts, Human Rights, JCUA Project and Campaign Endorsements, JCUA Statements, Jewish Community, Jewish Education, Membership, Police Brutality, Trauma Center Campaign, Workers' Rights

By Anna Rubin JCUA’s AVODAH Organizing Fellow Emeritus As part of closing out my year as a community organizer at the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, Marla Bramble, the Director of Organizing at JCUA and my supervisor, asked me to reflect on what I expected this year to be like beforehand, and what it has been in …

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From the Many, One

June 27, 2016
| By JCUA Admin
Categories: About JCUA, Civic Engagement, Community Events, Community Issues, Economic Justice, Government Accountability, Guest Blog Posts, Human Rights, Immigrant Rights, Immigration Reform, JCUA Project and Campaign Endorsements, JCUA Statements, Jewish Community, Workers' Rights

By Lisa Bendoff JCUA Member Before I begin discussing the Illinois Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights (IL DWBR), in the spirit of full disclosure, I must make the following confession: I am just a simple E pluribus unum kind of gal living in a crazy mixed up Bellum omnium contra omnes sorta world. That’s right, …

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JCUA Joins the Illinois Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights Campaign

March 24, 2016
| By JCUA Admin
Categories: About JCUA, Civic Engagement, Community Issues, Economic Justice, Guest Blog Posts, Human Rights, Immigrant Rights, Immigration Reform, JCUA Project and Campaign Endorsements, JCUA Statements, Jewish Community, Workers' Rights

By Elisa Redish JCUA Member I’m excited to work on the Illinois Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights campaign through JCUA because I believe that all workers deserve dignity, including the right to decent wages and freedom from discrimination and harassment. My interest in workers’ rights developed in the year I took off between college and …

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Rethinking Revolutionary

February 10, 2016
| By JCUA Admin
Categories: About JCUA, Budget Reform, Civic Engagement, Community Events, Community Issues, Economic Justice, Government Accountability, Guest Blog Posts, Human Rights, Interns & Internships, JCUA Project and Campaign Endorsements, JCUA Statements, Jewish Community, Membership, Racism

By Anna Rubin JCUA’s AVODAH Organizing Fellow On January 27, JCUA traveled to Springfield with the Responsible Budget Coalition (RBC) to protest the continuing budget impasse during Governor Bruce Rauner’s State of the State address. The night before, my AVODAH bayit had a program called “Jews and the Civil Rights Movement.” We had the opportunity to …

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Fingers on the Pulse

February 3, 2016
| By JCUA Admin
Categories: About JCUA, Civic Engagement, Community Issues, CVP, Economic Justice, Guest Blog Posts, Housing, Human Rights, JCUA Project and Campaign Endorsements, Jewish Community, Trauma Center Campaign

By David Feinberg JCUA Board of Directors I first learned of JCUA after a chance meeting at the Bucktown Arts Festival.  My family and I had recently moved to Chicago, and I was looking for a way to live my Judaism that connected with my values and the values I want to impart to my …

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