JUFJ Event
Labor Seder Planning Meeting
Labor Seder Planning Meeting
Join the Labor Seder volunteer team at our first planning meeting for this year's Labor Seder!
Volunteers will help us write the haggadah, reimagine your favorite Passover rituals to help highlight this important labor issue, research local immigration issues, and reach out to immigrant communities and make sure their voices are heard at our seder.
We'll have dinner will be from 6:30-7 and the meeting from 7-9. There will be lots of opportunities to meet new people, reconnect with friends, learn, and make a real impact on some of the most pressing issues facing our region.
RSVP and questions to Monica: monica@jufj.org
Doughnuts and Bylaws
In honor of Hanukkah, and nonprofit law changes,
we're having a bylaws party!
Come for a good time with your friends, the JUFJ community and staff. Stay for "exciting" legal formalities to ensure we comply with new DC laws in 2012. Raise a glass and a doughnut (or healthy alternative) and rededicate yourself to local justice work! You can also pick up a snazzy JUFJ t-shirt as a for your favorite activist...or yourself.
And for more information about the proposed changes to JUFJ's Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation contact Jacob.
Fair Purple Line Campaign Celebration
Paid Sick Leave Grassroots Kickoff
Help ensure that workers never have to chose between paying their bills and going to work sick. Join us to launch our Earned Paid Sick Leave Campaign! The event will feature workers' testimonials, campaign training, and dinner.
Hosted jointly with the Restaurant Opportunities Center, and the Employment Justice Center. RSVP here or email monica@jufj.org for more.
Heschel Vision Awards
Join us at 6pm on Sunday, November 6 at Tifereth Israel Congregation to honor the inspirational leadership of Rabbi David Shneyer, Shelley Moskowitz, and David Krakow. Enjoy a delicious light dinner (dietary laws observed), warm company, and awards program celebrating social justice work in the greater DC area.
Protest "Secure Communities" Deportations
JUFJ and other members of the faith community are joining immigrant groups, human rights organizations and worker organizations to testify at a hearing today about the Secure Communities immigration-enforcement program, then walk out in protest. Help us speak out.
Under Secure Communities, fingerprints of people booked into U.S. jails are forwarded to immigration authorities to identify immigrants who are subject to deportation. But it entangles immigrants who have committed no crime and discourages immigrant communities from working with law enforcement. D.C. and Arlington had opted out but now must participate anyway following a decision by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Protest the Secure Communities Program in Arlington!
On Monday, August 29th at 7 pm, JUFJ’s anti-racism working group will be screening and discussing the film Chocolate City, a documentary about gentrification in Washington, DC. We will have a potluck before the film, beginning at 6:30 pm. At around 8, we will have a facilitated discussion. Sign up here, or e-mail lizzie@jufj.org for more information! We'll honor all of our volunteers and get a fresh perspective on this year's theme, the importance of organized labor, from one of our new volunteers. We'll also mark the end of Shabbat with a warm Havdalah ceremony and enjoy a bite of something sweet! Click here to endorse our ally, Defeat Poverty DC!
Tikkun Leil Shabbat DC's songful, soulful, social justice minyan
Chocolate City Screening
LOTB Havdalah and Dessert Party
Start the new week on the right foot! Join JUFJ and Tikkun Leil Shabbat for a Labor on the Bimah Havdalah celebration and dessert.
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