Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) engages individual Jews, key Jewish institutions, and key Jewish community leaders in the fight to pursue and win racial and economic justice in partnership with Jewish and allied people of color, low-income and immigrant communities in New York City. 

JFREJ defends Occupy Wall Street in the New York Times!

Read about JFREJ in the New York Times article, "Cries of Antisemitism, but Not at Zuccotti Park"

Right-wing representatives from the Republican National Committee to Rush Limbaugh have tried to discount the Occupy Wall Street movement by claiming it is antisemitic at its core. Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, working alongside Occupy Wall Street organizers and Occupy Judaism, is fighting this accusation.

Welcome to the new JFREJ.org!

JFREJ has finally launched the new and improved JFREJ.org! We hope the redeveloped content and design make it easy for you to learn more about JFREJ and engage with us as our organization grows and changes.

Special thanks to our web design team of collaborators. We could not have done it without you: Shira Epstein, Sarah Fields and Ari Rosenbaum.

Any questions, problems or suggestions? Email our office or our webmaster.

Sukkot at Occupy Wall Street

Our Sukkot celebration at Occupy Wall Street has begun! Last night, JFREJ members slept at Zuccotti Park, weathering the cold and rain to keep our sukkah standing. We are setting a precedent at Occupy Wall Street to enable covered structures. With your help, we may make possible the use of tents througout the park! Contact Rachel at Rachel@jfrej.org to get involved. 


Below is the schedule of events throughout the festival. This schedule can also be found on the JFREJ Facebook page. We will update it throughout the week.

Friday, October 14th

A Message from JFREJ

L’shana Tova!

For the nearly 1,000 of you who were part of Kol Nidre services at Occupy Wall Street, who turned practice into protest, you know that 5772 has begun with a demand for justice. Let us feed and nurture that energy, continue to join with others to sustain it, and ensure that 5772 will be a year of great change!

Harnessing our energy


People around the world are reading about our historic Kol Nidre service. We were featured in the Huffington Post (Read the article here), and in blog posts, magazine articles, and tweets from New York to London to the Middle East. More video and article links can be found on the JFREJ Facebook page.

JFREJ has a new office!

After many years at our home on 29th Street, JFREJ has moved downtown. Come visit us at our new office!

666 Broadway, Suite 500
New York, NY 10012
p 212.647.8966
f 212.982.9272

OR, get in touch with us by email at info@jfrej.org

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Upcoming

Sunday, October 30th

  1. JFREJ Community Organizing Training: One-to-one Meetings
    • Where: JFREJ office, 666 Broadway, Suite 500
    • Start time: 05:00pm
    • End time: 06:00pm

    • At JFREJ, we're committed to developing our skills as organizers as we build power in solidarity with organizations led by workers, immigrants, people of color, and low-income New Yorkers. To this end, JFREJ is hosting Community Organizer Trainings each month as part of our campaign meetings. Join us for the first training on 1-to-1 meetings, also called Relational Meetings. Join us to learn about this vital building block of organizing and to think about the importance of building trust, agitating around an issue, exploring individual leadership, developing clarity, and building a base.

      For more information, contact Rachel at Rachel@jfrej.org

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  2. Shalom Bayit: Justice for Domestic Workers Campaign Meeting
    • Where: JFREJ Office, 666 Broadway, Suite 500
    • Start time: 06:00pm
    • End time: 07:00pm

    • Join us for the Shalom Bayit Campaign Meeting on Sunday, October 30th. Take action in solidarity with domestic workes in NYC! We will continue to discuss our steps to implement the basic protections of the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, organize with employers to move beyond these basic provisions towards a truly just system of community standards for domestic work, and build new partnerships locally and nationally as part of the recently-launched Caring Across Generations Campaign. In the next six months, we are looking to build a coaltion of employer constituencies that also includes senior and disability rights organizations: crucial allies in the struggle to create a just system for delivering quality care and dignity for all. Come and orgnaize with us to build a culture that respects the work that makes all other work possible!

      Directions: The office is between Bleecker and Bond on Broadway [BDFM/Bway Lafayette, 6/Bleecker, NR/Prince]

For more information, contact Rachel at rachel@jfrej.org

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