First art build: ✅ Join us next weekend for the next one! ➡️ www.jfrej.org/events/2026/...

What to do when @jfrejnyc.bsky.social endorses on the same day you open your campaign office? Launch a two-part canvas: Half on phones recruiting vols for petitioning. Half talking to businesses on Atlantic Ave about how they can protect their immigrant workers. Join us next time: landerfornyc.com

Join JFREJ Purim art builds to help us create beautiful creations for our Purimspiel on March 1st! To RSVP and more details head to jfrej.org/events

Mazel tov & mabrook to JFREJ's Executive Director Audrey Sasson for being named one of the 100 most politically powerful people in Brooklyn! @cityandstateny.bsky.social’s Power 100 List names individuals, but this list directly reflects the power and visibility of JFREJ’s 6000+ members ❤️

Preserve the right to protest in New York!

"Don't let them tell you what's politically possible. What's politically possible is what we're willing to organize."

New Yorkers: take action NOW to protect the right to protest in NY State! JFREJ.org/nobufferbills

Sharp piece by @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social forward.com/news/antisem...

To check your party affiliation (if any) online: voterlookup.elections.ny.gov To change your party affiliation online (to Dem so that you can vote in the primary): e-register.vote.nyc To change your party affiliation by mail or at a BOE office: vote.nyc/page/register-vote Deadline: Sat, Feb 14

Brad Lander commits to cosponsoring the Block The Bombs Act if elected, which would ban the US government from transferring cluster bombs, JDAMs, artillery and tank shells, and other munitions to the Israeli government.

I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.

Thank you for speaking up, @jfrejnyc.bsky.social! This further restriction on protest is a major threat to our union’s ability to picket and call for solidarity rallies outside of Columbia’s gates. We are staunchly against this proposed measure!

Tonight, JFREJ members in NY10 celebrated our endorsement of @bradlander.bsky.social before teaming up with the campaign to canvass the neighborhood with Know-Your-Rights materials to defend against ICE.

Full fledged commitment to fight for Ban the Bombs from @bradlander.bsky.social at @jfrejnyc.bsky.social endorsement. We will stop the genocide, organize to end fascism and fight for self determination, fully dignified lives and liberation worldwide.

.@jfrejnyc.bsky.social lauded Lander's "long record as a progressive champion and his commitment to ending US complicity in the genocide in Gaza."​

We at @jfrejnyc.bsky.social are so proud to endorse @bradlander.bsky.social today, to hold the first canvass out of his new campaign office, and to have that canvass be informing neighbor businesses about protecting our district against ICE! An antifascist and pro-resistance campaign at ❤️

Big endorsement news from New York’s Jewish left!

Yesterday, Mike Gianaris announced he's not seeking re-election for SD-12. Since Gianaris joined the senate, he helped make it the more progressive chamber. Now, we need to make the Assembly at least as progressive, and @elinorthrup.bsky.social is one of NYC's very best ways to help make it happen.

Announcing JFREJ’s first endorsements for the 2026 electoral cycle! The Jewish Vote is proud to endorse… 🧵

Join JFREJ's Share the Wealth campaign meeting to dig into our strategy to tax the rich to fund childcare, defend Medicaid, and advance a vision for care across the lifespan. You'll leave with a clear role for leadership in our campaign. RSVP: jfrej.org/stw

PSC members can send a letter from @jfrejnyc.bsky.social calling for Inna Vernikov's removal. If the sender is not Jewish, the first sentence of the form letter can be adapted as you see fit. (3/3) www.jfrej.org/news/2026/01...

The right to protest in this country is sacrosanct & must be protected. It is especially irresponsible to offer an authoritarian government still more tools that can be used to criminalize protest. Read our joint statement opposing the anti-democratic buffer zone bills introduced in the NYC Council.

While JFREJ neighborhood groups meet all over the city today, other JFREJers gathered in Bushwick for a Mizrahi Melodies workshop to learn Yemeni & Iraqi Jewish music from Yoni Battat & Anat Halevy Hochberg.

Announcing: JFREJ’s FIRST-EVER PURIMSPIEL STARRING…YOUTH!!! (Alongside some childish grown-ups, of course.) Join us on March 1st at the Brooklyn Children's Museum: jfrej.org/purim

+ this cute photo at our table: My dear friend @phylisawisdom.bsky.social, who was just named director of the Mayor's Office to Combat Antisemitism, with her new boss, the Mayor! Plus: my friend @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social gave amazing remarks. @jfrejnyc.bsky.social was well represented today!

Great to be at the @mayor.nyc.gov’s Interfaith Breakfast this morning as a sponsor! It’s truly a new era to be here for the first time with so many movement partners.

#BlackHistoryMonth: NYC once had the second-largest enslaved population in the colonies, trailing only Charleston, South Carolina. Modern movements for reparative justice seek to address centuries of systemic harm rooted in colonial slavery.

In 7 days . . . @arielleangel.bsky.social @peterbeinart.bsky.social @fadiqu.bsky.social @dovekent.bsky.social @academicsforpeace.bsky.social @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social @splcenter.org @jfrejnyc.bsky.social @ifnotnowmovement.org @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social Register: www.bit.ly/jewishleft

Sharing this resource, as I do every so often, from @jfrejnyc.bsky.social on understanding antisemitism. Important resource for separating the stuff from the stuff. www.jfrej.org/news/2017/11...

Join our upcoming End Deportations ICE out of NY Campaign meeting! We organize to protect our immigrant neighbors at federal courthouses & in our local neighborhoods, we will fight for city & state legislation that solidifies NY as a true sanctuary city & state. RSVP: www.jfrej.org/events/2026/...

On Feb. 4, 1999. Amadou Diallo an African immigrant was shot 19 times in a hail of 41 bullets by NYPD, claiming his wallet was a gun. As organizers we hit the streets. African, immigrant, Black (also African) & others, all knew it was the same system of oppression

We are in the midst of another racial reckoning. This one purging all the gains of the former and then some.

Are you a Jew who wants to #TaxTheRich? Make sure Gov. Hochul and your state legislators know it! 1️⃣ Go to jfrej.org/taxtherich to make your voice heard. 2️⃣ Then go to jfrej.org/albany to join us in Albany on Feb 25 for an all-hands-on-deck lobby day!

If @NYCMayor is serious about removing NYPD from mental health, as he campaigned, he must stop defending police-led/co-response models and invest in community-based, non-police crisis response and preventative & post-crisis care. Read our full statement: buff.ly/on8IqHs

DEMANDS: Release the full, unedited bodycam footage to the family Uncuff from Jabez while he recovers @QueensDAKatz do not to seek charges against Jabez @NYCMayor + NYPD: fire Officer White for needlessly choosing to shoot Jabez, fire others who violated the Chakrabortys’ rights

Not shown in the short clip the NYPD selected to release: officers demanding family members’ phones and threatening them into compliance, asking invasive immigration-related questions in violation of NYPD protocol, and barring them from seeing Jabez, shackled, in the hospital.

Yesterday NYPD released partial bodycam footage of Officer Tyree White shooting #JabezChakraborty in front of his family after they called 911 for help. White immediately barked orders & drew his gun - proving NYPD is the wrong agency to respond to crisis calls. buff.ly/on8IqHs

The 22-year-old's family is now calling on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to stop the NYPD from responding to mental health crisis calls, which the mayor says has underscored the need for the City agency he pitched during his campaign: the Department of Community Safety.

YES @jfrejnyc.bsky.social "It is critical we learn the lessons the people of Minneapolis are teaching us: when fascists attempt to divide our majority to remove the last obstacle to permanent rule, our greatest & perhaps final defense is not insularity, but solidarity." forward.com/opinion/lett...

Thankfully this is being built right now. Those of us in the Yiddish and other Jewish culture worlds are fertilizing our collective soil to grow the foundation for a more flexible and resilient identity. I know it's true when I see groups like @jfrejnyc.bsky.social doing it front and center.

Jewish tradition calls us to sound the alarm in the face of injustice. As ICE destroys lives, Jewish clergy & community members are showing up in the streets to resist. 2/11, Jews will show the world that we reject ICE’s cruelty & violence when we gather near ICE HQ in D.C. truah.org/jewsagainstice

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

Mazel tov to the new leaders of @nycprogressives.bsky.social! We're excited to work with this team to keep advancing our shared goal of a caring, welcoming New York City that works for all of us!

Happy Black History Month! In this February edition of Prisons, Prose & Protest, I share information about the first Black bookstore in the United States. I recommend a couple of podcast episodes about the inspiring organizing happening in Minnesota, several good recent articles and essays, and more

They're vying for Zohran Mamdani's last job to protect Queens residents and all New Yorkers from ICE. This morning we spoke with @dianaforqueens.com and Rana Abdelhamid, running for State Assembly in Astoria's and Long Island City's District 36. On Apple Podcasts and Spotify!

Tell @speakermenin.bsky.social you can’t combat antisemitism with racism! Remove Council Member Inna Vernikov from the Antisemitism Task Force! Sign on to our letter at jfrej.org/vernikov

🚨4pm TODAY: #ICEOut for good! 📍Foley Sq No school, no work, no shopping, no business as usual while our people are being kidnapped and killed. #ShutItDown to demand ICE out of NYC, ICE out of Minneapolis, ICE out of everywhere! nationalshutdown.org #AbolishICE

The Forward’s portrayal of NY’s Mizrahi & Sephardi communities as almost uniformly opposed to @mayor.nyc.gov failed to acknowledge the diversity of opinions that exist within the community. Read this letter to the editor from members of JFREJ’s Mizrahi & Sephardi Caucus. forward.com/opinion/lett...

Today, @speakermenin.bsky.social announced a taskforce to combat antisemitism, and appointed MAGA Republican CM Inna Vernikov as co-chair. This is unacceptable. Our statement: www.jfrej.org/news/2026/01...

Big news, NYC! @handsoffnyc.bsky.social is holding another training in Manhattan on Saturday, January 31! This is a big deal - please do sign up now for a full Know Your Rights/neighborhood coordination training! www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/...