Thank you for your interest in this effort to create a Jewish agenda that reflects the domestic priorities of many Jews. This section provides additional information about this effort.

 

As you may have noticed, we are not developing an agenda that argues for or against a particular policy or remedy. Instead, we have presented a few of the challenges that we believe need to be addressed in each area. Once you have helped to establish which five of these issues areas are the most pressing, we will invite ALL candidates for the presidency to explain what steps they will take to resolve the challenges.

 

These challenges are contained within a finite set of pre-selected issue areas. However, each of the issue areas was carefully selected based on five criteria:

1. Is this an issue embraced by national Jewish organizations?
2. Are synagogues involved in congregation-based community organizing working on this issue?
3. Are local Jewish organizations (eg: Progressive Jewish Alliance) working on this issue?
4. Does this issue impact most Jews?
5. Does Jewish text and teaching have something to say about this issue?

If you have any questions or comments about our process, please email us by clicking here.

 

Continue reading below for a complete list of our partners and some information about the Jewish connections to each issue area.

 

OUR PARTNERS (in formation):
DovBear

Hazon

Jdub Records

Jewcy.com

Jewish Labor Committee

Jewish Organizing Initiative

Jewish Student Press Service

Jews for Racial & Economic Justice

Jews United for Justice

Jewschool.com

Jvoices.com

Kehilat Romenu

Keshet

Moishe/Kavod House Boston

National Council of Jewish Women

Progressive Jewish Alliance

Tekiah

The Shalom Center

The Tribe

VelveteenRabbi.com

Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring

 

 

 

JEWISH SOURCES:

Child Care

Balancing Work & Life / Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff 

 

Civil Rights

Black/Jewish Relations Today: Ordinary is Extraordinary / by Mik Moore

How Can You Be Gay & Jewish? / by Jay Michaelson 

 

Education

Religious Action Center Education Resources

Jew-Free Public Schools? / by Rabbi Jill Jacobs 

 

Environment

Judaism and the Environment 101 / Hazon
But is it Jewish? Reflections on Judiasm and the Environment / by Rabbi Kenneth L. Cohen

                                       

Health Care

Health Care: It Takes a Hevrah / Committee on Laws & Standards

Paying for Medical Care: A Jewish View / by Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff

 

Housing

Housing the Homeless / by Rabbi Jill Jacobs

From Sukkah to Ma'akeh:  The Halachah of Housing / by Rabbi Jill Jacobs

 

Immigration

Why Do We Care About Immigration? / by Rabbi Jill Jacobs (text study)

Seders: A great time to discuss immigration / by Simon Greer

 

Katrina/Rita

Dignity After Katrina / by Rabbi Jill Jacobs

Katrina’s Jewish Voices / Jewish Women’s Archive

 

Seniors

Religious Action Center - Social Security

 

Wages

Living Wage: A Jewish Approach / by Rabbi Jill Jacobs

Rabbis for a Higher Minimum Wage / January 2007 (advertisement)