Jewish Community Action brings Minnesota’s Jews to work with the broader community to generate positive social change. Please consider becoming a member, subscribing to our email updates, and participating in our work:


Building leadership among Russian-speaking, Jewish elderly through Voice: Community Building Initiative. Through education, arts, and Jewish programs that they lead themselves, this community - which faces multiple barriers in the United States - is successfully organizing itself, developing its own voice, and learning
its own power.

Defeating the 2012 anti-marriage constitutional amendment. JCA stands for equality. Our tradition teaches us to pursue justice and uphold the dignity of each person. In this spirit, we are partnering with OutFront Minnesota, Minnesotans United for All Families, and other groups to support marriage equality and to defeat the proposed marriage amendment.

Giving a voice to a community outside of a congregation. Indie Jews is a vehicle for connecting unaffiliated Jews to organized power in the Jewish community.

Preventing foreclosures. Keeping people in their homes. Ensuring the strength of neighborhoods. JCA helped found the Northside Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) and the St. Paul Fair Lending Coalition to do all of these things, while helping mortgage lenders improve their practices.

Reforming our nations's immigration system. We've helped extend Liberian refugees' right to stay in the United States, and now we're helping them on a path to permanent residency. We're also helping Latino immigrants find ways to access basic public needs.

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 Jewish Community Action's mission is to
bring together Jewish people from diverse traditions and
 perspectives to promote understanding and take action
 on social and economic justice issues in Minnesota.