The Criminal Justice Reform Initiative:

All are welcome. Join a concerned cadre of passionate individuals and professionals from major Jewish organizations, representing religious streams from Orthodox to Reform, in tackling today’s civil rights crisis.

Cosponsors (list is still in formation): UJA-Federation of New York • JCPA • JCRCNY • ADL-NY • Aleph Institute • The Bayit • B’nai Jeshurun • Congregation Beit Simchat Torah • Central Synagogue • Temple Emanu-El • Congregation Tehillah • Council of Jewish Organizers of Staten Island – COJO • Education Alliance • Hadar • Health and Human Services for All New Yorkers • The Jewish Board • JCC Harlem • Jewish Labor Committee • Joseph Stern Center for Social Responsibility at Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan • Jewish Theological Seminary • Kings Bay Y/ JCC of Brooklyn • NCJW NY • NY Board of Rabbis •  Orthodox Union • Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association • Religious Action Center • Repair the World NYC • Romemu • Riverdale YM-YWHA • T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights • T’Shuvah • Westchester Jewish Council

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One out of every three black men will spend time in the U.S. prison system. Throughout the nation and New York, ascending leaders of diverse communities are working together on reform, but the organized Jewish community is not at the table.

The Goal:

• Raise awareness that mass incarceration is the civil rights crisis of our time. Educate with the aim of moving toward collective engagement.
• Assemble a big tent representing the diverse Jewish community and draw on our collective core values to address crucial issues.
• Activate the NY Jewish community to work on local criminal justice reform issues in coalition with our non-Jewish partners.