Join Jews United for Justice at our Spring 2009 Membership Meeting!

06/17/2009 - 6:30pm
06/17/2009 - 8:30pm
Etc/GMT
Location: 
Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Library: 3160 16th Street, NW

At JUFJ's spring membership meeting, you can: take in a puppet show about wage theft, take action to protect affordable housing in Langley Park's "International Corridor," learn how your congregation can honor workers this Labor Day, hear about upcoming JUFJ programs, from a book launch all about Jewish Justice to a fellowship that will build your activist credentials, and meet other new and longtime members of JUFJ.

Be sure to join us at 6:30 for dinner to schmooze with our new staff: Program Director Rabbi Elizabeth Richman and Labor on the Bimah Coordinator Shira Dickler!

      Membership meetings are an opportunity for new and longtime JUFJ members to meet, mingle, learn, take action, and get inspired to dig deeper into JUFJ's work of tikkun ha'ir/repairing our city. Please join us: light dinner at 6:30pm; meeting begins at 7pm

Please RSVP to darya@jufj.org if you'll be there!

The Mt. Pleasant Library is located at  3160 16th Street, NW, at the intersection of 16th and Lamont Streets NW, and is accessible by the S1, S2, S4, and S9 buses, the 42 bus, and the Columbia Heights metro station. For more travel information, visit www.wmata.com.

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