Ready for immigration reform? Here's what you can do.
Jewish Bagel Brunch, Interfaith Service and Immigration Rally
Sunday March 21, 11:00 am – 4pm
If you’re in Washington DC, you can be part of history and help change the future for millions of our immigrant brothers and sisters. Join tens of thousands of people of faith from across the United States for “March for America: Change Takes Courage and Faith.” Register here: http://tinyurl.com/Jewishimmigrationmarch.
National Jewish Conference Call on Immigration Reform
Sunday March 21, 6pm
Learn about the Jewish imperative to call for immigration reform on a conference call with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Rabbi David Saperstein (Reform), Rabbi Morris Alan (Conservative) and Rabbi Menachem Genack (Orthodox) and other leaders.
Register Here: http://www.jcua.org/immigrationcall.
National Lobby / Call In Day
Monday March 22, 9 am – 5 pm
The We Were Strangers Too coalition is helping to organize lobby visits with members of Congress. Please register at the following site if you are able to stay in town: http://changetakesfaith.org/.
For individuals who cannot travel to Washington on the 21/22, we need you to call your Members of Congress and advocate for reform. Everyone who registers for the March 21 Jewish conference call will receive an email with the information for the national call-in day on March 22.
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, Jewish Community Action, and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society are the co-conveners of We Were Strangers Too: the Jewish Campaign for Immigration Reform.
Yup, if there’s anything American Jews need besides native-born anti-semites, its immigrant anti-semites.
At least the American born anti-semites didn’t come into the US with any Jewish help.
Ask the French Jewish community how well their pro-immigration activism went.
The mainstream Jewish community rejects the JCUA platform for good reasons. Dr. Steinlight discusses it here:
http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c55_a17787/Editorial__Opinion/Opinion.html