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NCJW Weekly Advocacy Wrap-Up:
Friday, September 2, 2022
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In this issue...
Abortion Care in California: Virtual Panel, Register Today!
Donate Supplies for Abortion After-Care Kits
Want to Do More to Support Abortion Access?
Book Launch: On Repentance and Repair
GOTV Together or from Home
OCJCR Book Club
Advocate for Immigrants and Refugees
Naomi Steinfeld Honored by South Coast Interfaith Council
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Abortion Care in California: Virtual Panel
Wednesday, September 7, 7 pm, Zoom
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In response to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe and almost 50 years of abortion rights, we are hosting an advocacy-focused panel on abortion care in California.
Topics will include a briefing on state legislative action, current and future access to full reproductive health care services for in-state and out-of-state patients, and abortion funding for those needing care.
Our speakers include Krista Hollinger, COO, Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties; Sylvia Ghazarian, Executive Director, Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP); Aisha Wagner, MD, Founder and Co-Chief Medical Officer of Choix Fellow, Physicians for Reproductive Health; and Tabetha R. Harken, MD, MPH, FACOG, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division Director of Family Planning, University of California Irvine.
This program is free! A donation of $18 minimum is welcome. Donations allow us to continue our activities — direct service, education, advocacy and more. Your donation of any amount will help fund our mission to assist and serve women, children and families.
Come and learn how you can help!
Register here for a Zoom link for this program
Donate here
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Donate Supplies for Abortion After-Care Kits
Saturday & Sunday, September 10 & 11
10 am – 2 pm, Alpert JCC
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Want to Do More to Support Abortion Access? Actions YOU Can Take from Home | |
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Sign an NCJW Action Alert
Regulate abortion disinformation: Urge your representative to Pass the Stop Anti-Abortion Disinformation (SAD) Act now! To read more and sign, click here
Urge HHS Secretary Becerra to Expand Medication Abortion Access
To read more and sign, click here
Lawmakers Must Pass Appropriations Bills Free of Abortion Coverage Bans!
To read more and sign, click here
Support the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act!
To read more and sign click here
Sign the petition: People of Faith and Conscience Call on Congress to
Pass the EACH Woman Act
To read more and sign click here
Support #AbortionAccess4All
To read more and sign, click here
End the global gag rule today!
To read more and sign, click here
And stay tuned: The Jews for Abortion Access #ActForAbortion Week of Action is September 12-16, and we need you to join us. Are you ready?
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Book Launch: On Repentance and Repair
Thursday, September 8, 4 pm PST, Zoom
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American culture focuses on letting go of grudges and redemption narratives instead of the perpetrator’s obligations or recompense for harmed parties. As survivor communities have pointed out, these emphases have too often only caused more harm. NCJW’s Rabbi In Residence Danya Ruttenberg knew there was a better model.
Join author and activist Rebecca Solnit in conversation with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg about Danya’s latest work, On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
Rabbi Ruttenberg’s book is available for pre-order until its September 13th release.
Register for Zoom here
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GOTV Together or from Home
Monday, September 12, 4 pm
A member's home
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You can:
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Write postcards and Vote Forward Letters with us on Monday, September 12 at 4 pm at a member’s patio in Long Beach
- Write Vote Forward letters from home
- Write postcards from home
If you’d like to join us on Sept. 12, RSVP to Chana Ham-Rosebrock.
If you want to write Vote Forward letters from home and have already participated in Vote Forward, log in at https://votefwd.org and pick the Florida “social” campaign marked with an "S".; print out your letters and addresses.
If you have not participated in Vote Forward but would like to do so, please email Deb Lelchuk at advocacy@ncjwlongbeach.org for the instructions.
We have envelopes for anyone who wants them! We can provide letters and addresses too if you can’t print.
If you’d like to write postcards at home, please email Deb Lelchuk at advocacy@ncjwlongbeach.org.
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OCJCR Book Club
Friday, September 9, 1–2:30 pm
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Everyone is welcome to attend the discussion of Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American by Wajahat Ali, a New York Times-contributing writer, recovering attorney, and tired dad. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, New York Review of Books, and other outlets. He lives in Washington, DC.
The discussion will be facilitated by Dr. Sam Kolodezh, a lecturer at UCSD and NYU LA. He received his Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama from the joint program at UCI and UCSD. He specializes in cultural theory, Shakespeare, and adaptation. He is the son of Jewish Ukrainian refugees, a lover of stories across mediums, an avid traveler, and an explorer of in-betweens. As the Jewish half of a HinJew marriage, he is committed to interfaith and intercultural dialogue. He has worked as a scholar and artist in North America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
To find out more about the book and get the link to register, click here.
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If there’s one thing you should do before Labor Day weekend, it’s this: Ask the Biden Administration to increase refugee admissions to 200,000 and invest in the refugee program. The U.S. resettled 175,000 Afghans and Ukrainians, but only 17,960 from other parts of the world, many of whom have been waiting for *years* to start their new lives.
By the end of September, the Biden Administration will set the annual Presidential Determination, establishing the number of refugees that may be admitted into the country in the next year, which is why we’re asking President Biden to commit to welcoming 200,000 refugees in FY2023 and to ensure that the processes are in place to reach that goal.
You’re also invited to some very exciting events this month, both in-person here in Los Angeles and online:
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Israel Today: Human Rights, Refugee Crisis, and the Future of Democracy with former Israeli MK Ksenia Svetlova, a refugee from the FSU who has partnered with HIAS Israel in the past and has key insights on the intersections of threats to democracy and how it impacts refugees, asylum seekers, and all underrepresented/minority populations. 9/13 at 7pm PT, Temple Isaiah in Los Angeles, proof of vaccination and masks required.
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Naomi Steinfeld Honored by
South Coast Interfaith Council
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Did you miss the South Coast Interfaith Council Gala when our own Naomi Steinfeld received an award as an Avid Bridge Builder of Cultures?
Naomi Steinfeld was honored as a Bridge Builder of Cultures for her incredible work around the world and here at home.
You can view a recording of the event here
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