#TestimonyTuesday: JUFJ Testimony in Support of Strong Paid Family & Medical Leave Implementation

Last year, we and our partners successfully pushed for the passage of the Time To Care Act, which guaranteed Paid Family and Medical Leave for millions of Maryland workers. This year we are [...]

Marylanders need strong and equitable implementation of paid and family medical leave.

Enabling legislation passed into law by the Maryland General Assembly in  2021 states in clear and simple language that the BPD would become a City agency on January 1, 2023 provided only that [...]

Jews United for Justice is preparing written and video materials about what's at stake in the upcoming local elections. Would you like the materials, including a recorded program, and/or would [...]

Police Can’t Police Themselves: Demand Independent Investigatory Powers for Police Accountability Boards

Healthcare is a Human Right: Demand Affordable Care Act Inclusion for Undocumented Immigrants

JUFJ is a member of the Way Home Campaign, a DC coalition working to end homelessness in DC, and supports the coalition’s ask that the DC Council stop all encampment clearings during the pandemic [...]

Jewish history and values have long recognized the differing capacities of children and adults. Yetzer harah, the “evil inclination,” is seen as a drive toward pleasure that can be tempered by [...]

When gun safety opponents invoke the Holocaust to portray themselves as victims of oppression — as SB1 opponents did on their signs and with the stars of David they wore to the hearing — they are [...]