Causes: Civil Rights

Mission: Jewish community action is a nonprofit organization made up of jews from diverse backgrounds. It is unified in its commitment to building a more just society. It works with congregations and individuals to provide training, education and opportunities for action to address social and economic justice issues in minnesota.

Programs: Community reinvestment and foreclosure work in coalition with other diverse organizations and synagogues to conduct research, recruit volunteers, and provide information and advocacy to lessen the impact of the ongoing foreclosure crisis in specific minneapolis, st. Paul, and suburban neighborhoods.

immigrant rights work in multiple coalitions to respond to local, state and national immigration issues and to organize members of the jewish comminity in coalition with other communities to pass national immigration reform, including extension of the legal status for the liberian community and other immigrant communities.

congregational organizing works with synagogue social justice committees, lay leaders and clergy to identify and build leadership, convene educational programs, involve congregational members in jewish community action issue campaigns and make social justice an integral part of congregational life.