Join us for our next Maryland Community Meeting where we'll discuss campaign updates and how we can best move our work forward. Join at 7:30 PM for a JUFJ 101 if you're newer to JUFJ, or for a schmooze session if you're a returning JUFJer. The full meeting will begin at 8:00 PM. All are welcome!
Come text bank with us as we recruit our community to take final action on our key priorities and join our big celebration for Sine Die (the end of the legislative session)!
Join us to celebrate Sine Die: the last day of the 2022 Maryland General Assembly session!
Join us for our next virtual Maryland Community Meeting, where the Maryland Center on Economic Policy will present on budget advocacy. MDCEP’s training will cover how folks can advocate on budget issues, especially in light of the state’s new budget process this year. We will begin the meeting with a community Chanukah candlelighting!
Join us for our next Maryland Community Meeting, where we'll discuss campaign updates and how we can best move our work forward. All are welcome!
Join fellow JUFJers and our partners to advocate for our issues on the second day of the Maryland General Assembly legislative session!
Join us for our next Maryland Community Meeting where we'll discuss campaign updates and how we can best move our work forward. All are Welcome!
Every child must be treated with dignity, respect, and fairness. Join JUFJ and our partners in the Maryland Youth Justice Coalition for a day of action in Annapolis in support of the YES Act! We'll be gathering outdoors in the morning with the coalition, and then joining the bill's committee hearing in the afternoon. Come to either (or both!) and submit testimony for the hearing even if you can't come to Annapolis in person.
We are just about halfway through the legislative session! Join us for updates and to take action together.
Every year on (or near) Purim, JUFJ activists deliver mishloach manot, sweet gifts to our legislators, along with a reminder of our legislative priorities. We invite you to make or buy hamentaschen or other supplies to support this effort even if you aren't able to join us in person!
The Torah commands us to pursue justice, and our sages instruct us that the methods we use to do so must be just themselves. The practice of automatically charging youths as adults in Maryland is unjust, ineffective and disproportionally targets Black and brown youth. Join us in Annapolis or on Zoom for the House Judiciary Committee hearing on HB96, the Youth Equity and Safety Act, which would put an end to the racist practice of autocharge.
JUFJ is guided by the Jewish concept of tzelem elohim, which teaches that all people are created in the Divine image, with inherent and equal dignity and value. Prerelease programs help people nearing the end of their prison sentences secure employment, housing, drug treatment, mental health services, and family support. There are multiple facilities for men in Maryland, but none for women. Join us in Annapolis (or tune in on your own virtually) for the Senate Capital Budget Subcommittee's budget hearing to advocate that the funding we won last year (but was struck from the FY24 budget) be put back in the budget and that the women's prerelease facility be fully funded to avoid any further delays in implementation.
JUFJ is guided by the Jewish concept of tzelem elohim, which teaches that all people are created in the Divine image, with inherent and equal dignity and value. Prerelease programs help people nearing the end of their prison sentences secure employment, housing, drug treatment, mental health services, and family support. There are multiple facilities for men in Maryland, but none for women. Join us in Annapolis (or tune in on your own virtually) for the House Capital Budget Subcommittee's budget hearing to advocate that the funding we won last year (but was struck from the FY24 budget) be put back in the budget and that the women's prerelease facility be fully funded to avoid any further delays in implementation.
Join us for our next Maryland Community Meeting where we'll discuss campaign updates and how we can best move our work forward. All are welcome!
Join us to text JUFJers to contact their legislators about our key priorities before crossover day. No prior experience necessary!
Join us for our next Maryland Community Meeting where we'll discuss campaign updates and how we can best move our work forward. All are welcome!
Join us to text JUFJers to contact our legislators about getting our priorities passed before the end of Sine Die, the last day of the Maryland General Assembly. No prior experience is necessary!
Join us to celebrate Sine Die, the last day of the Maryland General Assembly’s 2023 legislative session!
Jewish sacred texts teach us that the world was created with both justice and mercy. Here in Maryland, children who are charged with certain crimes are sentenced as if they were adults. That is neither just nor merciful. Join JUFJ's youth justice working group as we discuss the campaign to pass the Youth Equity and Safety (YES) Act.
Our Torah commitments bring us to care for our families, HaShem and the Jewish community. They also bring us to care for the greater community in which we all live. That caring leads us not only to engage in individual acts of chesed, but to work to make communal change that benefits everyone. Join JUFJ to meet with other members of the Orthodox Jewish community who share these values.
