JCRC Bay Area

We are excited to announce JCRC’s 2027-2029 Strategic Plan, a bold vision for deepening our impact.

The plan charts a clear path toward a more proactive and unified JCRC, defining our focus for the next three years and articulating our aspirations as we work to ensure our position of trust and maintain the powerful voice we have established over our nearly 80 years of service to the Bay Area Jewish community.

Summary:

1. Build deep relationships with local and statewide elected officials, public leaders, K–12 administrators and educators, and issue leaders.

2. Inspire a groundswell of Jewish leadership and advocacy with cohesive networks, cohorts of Jewish civic leaders, and organizational partnerships throughout the broader community.

3. Refocus on our unique strengths to address antisemitism and support Israel as a Jewish and democratic homeland.

4. Strengthen coalitions beyond the Jewish community, with allies who share our values of civil rights, social justice, and protecting our democracy.

5. Impact the political and legislative process at the local, county, and state levels.

🔗 Read the full plan: jcrc.org/blog/jcrc-stra…

The plan was developed over eight months by a 17-member Strategic Planning Taskforce, with consultation from our board, council, staff, community partners, and supporters like you. Thank you. We’re looking forward to embarking on this ambitious next chapter.

Babka. Bakery. Berkeley. 😋

Say that five times fast!

The California Legislative Jewish Caucus does amazing work for us on the state level.

Thanks to the leadership of @AsmJesseGabriel, @AsmDawnAddis and @SenJoshBecker, six Jewish community priority bills were signed into law this legislative session:

✅ AB 395 - Avoids scheduling major public events on Jewish holidays.

✅ AB 1803 - Mandates anti-hate speech training for businesses with 5 or more employees.

✅ AB 1836 - Expands the California Nonprofit Security Grant Program to cover offsite events.

✅ AB 1853 - Bars hate speech and hateful content from official voter guides.

✅ AB 2664 - Prohibits harassment near houses of worship by creating 100-foot protest-free buffer zones.

✅ SB 1387 - Includes Jewish identity in state ethnic demographic data and requires state agencies to recognize Jews as an ethnicity.

JCRC at the @jfederations General Assembly!

Our team spent the past few days in Washington, D.C. with more than 2,500 Jewish leaders, policy experts, and advocates from across North America. A few highlights from the trip:

• JCRC CEO @tyegregory spoke on a panel about fighting BDS in local government
• We met with @repkevinmullin (CA-15) on Capitol Hill
• JCRC Chief Community Relations Officer Laura Cherner interviewed political consultant @karlrove on addressing right-wing antisemitism
• We connected with Rep.-Elect @scott_wiener and CA Assemblymember @asmjessegabriel at the CA Jewish Caucus reception
• Tye spoke on a JCRC Directors Association panel on Jewish political engagement and advocacy

A very successful week in Washington, D.C.!

LEAVE ROSS ALONE ❤️‍🔥