FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, May 22, 2025 PRESS CONTACT: press@ncjw.org WASHINGTON, DC — Today, National Council of Jewish Women — one of the nation’s leading Jewish feminist civil rights organizations, representing 250,000 advocates from across the country — has released the following statement in response to the US Supreme Court’s decision in Oklahoma Statewide Charter v. Drummond: “Today, the Supreme Court announced …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, May 22, 2025 PRESS CONTACT: press@ncjw.org WASHINGTON, DC — In response to the antisemitic shooting that killed two young Jewish people outside an event in Washington, DC, Sheila Katz, CEO of National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), released the following statement:  “At NCJW, our hearts break for the victims of this antisemetic attack — Sarah Milgrim …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 PRESS CONTACT: press@ncjw.org Three-day conference brings hundreds of Jewish feminist advocates to DC to build community and push for access to Medicaid and SNAP, expanded voting rights, protected Black maternal health, and an enhanced Child Tax Credit. WASHINGTON, DC — From Sunday, May 18 to Tuesday, May 20, 2025, advocates from across the country joined National Council …

May 12, 2025 Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson House Committee on Agriculture Washington, D.C. 20515 Chairman John Boozman Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Washington, D.C. 20510 Chairman Brett Guthrie House Committee on Energy and Commerce Washington, D.C. 20515 Chairman Mike Crapo Senate Committee on Finance Washington, D.C. 20510 Ranking Member Angie Craig House Committee on Agriculture Washington, D.C. 20515 …

April 28, 2025 United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Durbin, and Committee Members:  On behalf of the following eleven national Jewish organizations representing more than one million people across the United States, we write to express our deep concern about the nomination of Ed Martin to …

Originally published by Times of Israel April 25, 2025 By Deitra Reiser Unity for the sake of unity is a means to get to a sum of zero. History tells me it is a route to abandonment and dispossession. As a Black southern Jewish Woman, I look to history to help me understand what is happening now and consider possible …

NCJW’s Spring 2025 Government Relations & Advocacy Interns, Hailey Fried and Ilyssa Lapp, spent April 16th and 17th urging their Members of Congress to support and help pass the Right to Contraception Act (HR 999/S 422). With reproductive freedom under relentless attack, it is more important than ever to protect the right of each individual to access the contraceptive care …

Originally published by Southern Jewish Life April 14, 2025 By Larry Book In February 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that an embryo could be considered a person set off a chain of events that upended the world of in vitro fertilization, causing clinics across the state to shut down as the ramifications of unused embryos became much trickier. For couples involved …

We, the undersigned nonpartisan civil rights organizations representing millions of people of every background in every zip code across America, exist to serve our communities, protect rights, and advance opportunity for all. Today we face a campaign by the government to silence and isolate us, stop us from doing our jobs, and hurt the people we serve. The administration has …

Today, a coalition of ten organizations representing a broad swath of mainstream American Jewry – including three of the four denominations – issued a joint statement rejecting the false choice between confronting antisemitism and upholding democracy. The organizations, which were brought together by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and include the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, National Council …