DOMESTIC AGENDA

• Health Care Reform
• Poverty and Welfare Reform
• Immigration and Refugees
• Intergroup Relations
• Crime Violence Gun Control
• Church-State Issues
• Interreligious Affairs
• Environmental Concerns

INTERNATIONAL AGENDA

• Arab-Israeli Peace Process
• Soviet Jews and Other Endangered Jewish Communities
• International Human Rights: Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Foreign Aid

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
"Seek justice, relieve the oppressed" (Isaiah, 1:17)

• Health Care Reform Changing Conditions | Background | Dissent- JWV)
  • NJCRAC Principles on National Health Care Coverage
    Adopted by the NJCRAC Executive Committee, June 28, 1993
• Poverty and Welfare Reform Changing Conditions | Background | Priority Strategic Goals
  • NJCRC Principles for Addressing Poverty and Welfare Reform
• Immigration and Refugees Changing Conditions | Background | Priority Strategic Goals | Dissent - JWV)
• Current Status and Economic Condition of Women Changing Conditions | Background | Priority Strategic Goals | Dissent - Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America
• African American-Jewish Relations Changing Conditions | Background | Priority Strategic Goals
• Arab American-Jewish Relations Changing Conditions | Background | Priority Strategic Goals
• Continuing and Urgent

JEWISH SECURITY AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS
"Justice, justice you shall pursue." (Deuteronomy 16:20)

• Separation of Church and State Changing Conditions | Background |
  Dissent- Orthodox Union) | Dissent - JWV
• Constitution Protections in a Pluralistic Democracy Changing Conditions |
  Background | Dissents- Orthodox Union and JWV
• Gun Control and Violence Changing Conditions |
  Background | Priority Strategic Goals
• Anti-Semitism in the United States Changing Conditions | Background |
  Priority Strategic Goals [Criteria for Assessing Anti-Semitism]
• Energy and Environment Changing Conditions | Background | Priority Strategic Goals
• Catholic-Jewish Relations Changing Conditions | Background | Priority Strategic Goals Dissent - JWV
• Protestant-Jewish Relations Changing Conditions | Background | Priority Strategic Goals
• Fundamentalists, the "Religious Right," and the Political Process Changing Conditions | Background | Priority Strategic Goals
• Continuing and Urgent Muslim-Jewish Relations | AIDS

ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST
"And the work of righteousness shall be peace; And the effect of righteousness quietness and confidence forever." (Isaiah, 32:17)

• Peace Process Changing Conditions | Background | Priority Strategic Goals
• US - Israel Relations Changing Conditions | Background | Priority Strategic Goals
• Israel and the International Community Changing Conditions | Background | Priority Strategic Goals
• Continuing and Urgent
  • Middle East Arms Race
  • Arab Economic Boycott
  • Teaching About the Middle East
  • Democracy and Pluralism in Israel
    • Dissent by OU
  • Israel - Diaspora Relations

WORLD JEWRY AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
"God formed Adam out of dust from all over the world; yellow clay, white sand, black loam, and red soil. Therefore, no one can declare to any race or color of people that they do not belong here since the soil is not their home." (Yalkut Shimoni, 1:13)

• Jews in the Former Soviet Union Changing Conditions | Background | Priority Strategic Goals
• International Human Rights Changing Conditions | Background | Priority Strategic Goals
• Foreign Aid Changing Conditions | Background | Priority Strategic Goals
• Continuing and Urgent
  • Arms Control
  • Preserving the Memory of the Holocaust
  • Jews in Arab and Moslem Countries
  • Absorption in Israel of Ethiopian Jews

COMMUNITY RELATIONS CONCERNS ON CAMPUS

• Text Changing Conditions | Background | Priority Strategic Goals

APPENDIX: THE ROLE OF THE NJCRAC