NCJW Weekly Advocacy Wrap-Up:

Friday, December 30, 2022

In this issue...

Join a Jewish Long Beach Focus Group

Volunteer at LBHTTF YESS event

Volunteer for 2023 Homeless Point in Time Count: Sign Up Now

Thank Senators for Passing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

Celebrate 2022's Accomplishments and Give Your Support

Join a Jewish Long Beach Focus Group

Jewish Long Beach has begun a comprehensive strategic planning process, which is being coordinated by Panoramic Strategies, a consulting firm specializing in Jewish communal advancement. The consultants will soon be conducting a number of focus groups, the results of which will help guide the strategic planning process.

Jewish Long Beach is recruiting participants to partake in focus groups (conducted via Zoom on the dates and times listed) in the following categories:

• Interfaith families (January 6. 12-1:30pm PST)
• LGBTQ+ (January 8 2:30-4pm PST)
• Families with Young Kids (January 9 12-1:30pm PST)
• Baby Boomers (January 10, 12-1:30pm PST)
• Jews of Color (January 11, 5-6:30pm PST)

If you are interested or for more information, please contact Zach Benjamin, Chief Executive Officer at Zbenjamin@jewishlongbeach.org.

Volunteer at Long Beach Human Trafficking

Task Force's YESS Event

Saturday, January 21, 2023

10 am – 2 pm

The Youth Empowerment Safety Symposium (Y.E.S.S.) Event will be a great day filled with information to Educate, Empower, and Engage the community to stop human trafficking!!!

Free food, music, fair trade shopping, resources, live performances, sports competitions, prizes and more!

Volunteers are needed for the event at The Salvation Army, Long Beach Corps

3000 Long Beach Blvd. Contact Chana Ham-Rosebrock to sign-up or email advocacy@ncjwlongbeach.org.

Volunteer for 2023

Homeless Point in Time Count

January 26, 2023: Sign Up Now!

The Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services is seeking community volunteers for the 2023 Homeless Point in Time (PIT) Count, taking place on Jan. 26, 2023. 



For more information and/or to register for the PIT Count,

CLICK HERE

Thank Senators for Passing

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

From NCJW CEO Sheila Katz:

The sign-on letter below thanks senators for passing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. I hope you’ll join me in closing out this year in celebration by signing the letter and saying thank you. 

This is a huge win for NCJW and it’s extra personal to me. When my mother was pregnant with me and my twin sister, she worked the night shift at a factory in New Jersey. Since this legislation was not in place, she had to stop working there because as she told me, “a factory was no place for someone pregnant.” My mom, like so many pregnant Americans, had to choose between a healthy pregnancy or a paycheck. What an awful choice.

These provisions do things like:

• Require employers to allow pregnant workers to take water breaks for hydration.
• Require employers to offer stools to pregnant cashiers with leg pain.
• Require employers to reassign heavy lifting duties to other employees where it’s possible.
• Require employers to alter their no-food-or-drink policies.

The Senate included the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act in the omnibus bill, and it passed in the House. In the days and weeks leading up to this win we rallied, we lobbied every Senator to advocate, and we worked in coalition to push this through. Together, we helped bring dignity back to pregnant workers in our country.

Please add your name to our letter thanking the senators

who voted to protect working moms.

Today, as we near the end of the year, we’re celebrating the best of our 2022 actions, achievements, and events at National Council of Jewish Women.

NCJW’s Jews for Abortion Access campaign galvanized hundreds of thousands of organizers and advocates of all ages to show up for abortion access.

We connected Jewish values and reproductive justice over Repro Shabbat 2022, gathered supporters from across the Jewish field at the Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice in May, blew our Shofars to sound the call for abortion access during the Week of Action in October, and raised funds for the Jewish Fund for Abortion Access to directly support individuals seeking abortion care.

NCJW helped confirm 97 of the most diverse and incredibly qualified judicial nominees to federal courts in American history — including the first-ever Black woman, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Through our advocacy, we also helped confirm the first out lesbian, the first Korean American woman, the first Native American woman, the first Muslim American, and the first labor lawyer to the federal judiciary. Bringing these diverse experiences and perspectives to the bench allows for better-informed decisions that increase public confidence in judicial rulings.

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Locally, not only did we participate in these many actions, but we 

• Helped Get Out The Vote through postcards and letters
• Collected items for Abortion After Care Kits 
• Lobbied and help pass a number of bills at the state level
• Welcomed and supported our three Afghan refugee women through our Welcome Circle
• And, much more.

Your past giving to support the advocacy of NCJW Greater Long Beach & West Orange County has positioned us to finish 2022 on the highest possible note, and to start 2023 from a place of strength. Today, we hope you’ll support us once more by clicking below and selecting the Barbara Shipnuck Women's Advocacy Fund— every gift makes a difference, and our advocacy work has never been more important.

Questions about anything you have read or related to our Section’s advocacy? Email advocacy@ncjwlongbeach.org.