Jews For Racial and Economic Justice
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ)is a progressive Jewish political organization based in New York City. Through community organizing and advocacy, JFREJ focuses on issues such as ending police violence, preventing hate violence, winning immigrant justice, fighting antisemitism, promoting the rights of domestic workers and elders receiving home care.
JFREJ was founded in 1990 by Donna Nevel and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark. While founded to focus on local issues of racial and economic justice, the group's first public event was organized around welcoming Nelson Mandela to New York City after his release from Robin Island.
After the acquittal of the NYPD officers who murdered Amadou Diallo in 1999, JFREJ participated in a day of protest leading to the arrest of over 120 Jews, including 13 rabbis, on the steps of City Hall. JFREJ has joined campaigns for housing justice, supported employees unionizing at restaurants and kosher food factories, stood with B&H Photo/Video warehouse workers fighting for their rights, and organized alongside the domestic workers who passed the New York State Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010, and the Queens residents who successfully battled to keep Amazon.com’s HQ2 out of Long Island City.
JFREJ was part of the anti-Stop & Frisk campaign, the passage of the Community Safety Act in 2013 and the Right To Know Act in 2018. JFREJ is a member organization of the coalition Communities United for Police Reform.
In 2018 JFREJ launched the organization's electoral arm, The Jewish Vote.
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