🚨 ICE Kills Again, Must Finally be Abolished "Our communities deserve to live free from fear, and that means ending ICE’s lawless terror by finally abolishing the agency." Murad Awawdeh

Last week, members of JFREJ, Arab American Association of NY, Center for Anti-Violence Education, Malikah & the Sikh Coalition met with Dept. Mayor for Community Safety Renita Francois to discuss the NYC Against Hate Violence policy proposal & how the city can invest in prevention, not punishment.

This parallels the way in which the Polish Law and Justice party put pressure on the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk to rewrite their exhibitions to downplay Jewish suffering and focus on how all Poles supposedly suffered equally under the Nazis. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/a...

Diasporism > Nationalism Go to shop.jfrej.org to get this shirt, designed by Sarah Day, and automatically become a JFREJ member — the cost of the shirt counts as your membership dues! shop.jfrej.org/products/dia...

Shabbat Shalom - Happy Interdependence! “WE THE PEOPLE DECLARE OUR INTERDEPENDENCE” ✊️ My full remarks last week at the #Next250 rally and national mobilization. 250 years ago, “we the people” declared independence. But that “we” left out far too many. 1/10

Last night hundreds of our members gathered for our summer Membership Assembly in Brooklyn and on Zoom to celebrate our wins, reflect on what still needs work, and discuss next steps. We also launched the first ever JFREJ Songbook! 🎶 Check it out here: jfrej.org/songbook

Get your songbook today! jfrej.org/songbook

Could not be prouder to be with @jfrejnyc.bsky.social celebrating the victories of recent months and recommitting to the work, with our new songbook!

Follow the orange signs to the JFREJ membership assembly! Each attendee receives our snazzy new song books. Feeling FOMO? Head to jfrej.org/join

Transphobia and discrimination against Transgender, nonbinary, GNC, and intersex people is immoral and evil everywhere. In NYC and NYS, it's also illegal 🏳️‍⚧️🗽

Thank you @tiffanycaban.bsky.social for leading the way on the inside and to @nycprogressives.bsky.social for holding firm.

We have almost 34,000 cops. That is enough cops. Some might even say it's too many cops.

I'm going to bed but suffice it to say that we will continue to organize until the Mayor lives up to his promise and the City Council delivers. The fight continues...

Go to a protest and think why is everyone just singing 1 off topic song and they only know the chorus? Let’s fix that together. JFREJ has a new songbook. Come to the meeting Weds (also online).

Proud to rally this AM in support of @cmjengutierrez.bsky.social's bill to make the Office of Childcare & Early Education permanent! We won big investments in early childcare statewide earlier this year - but that was only the start. To get truly universal childcare from birth, we must TAX THE RICH!

After years of fighting for budget justice, our grassroots People’s Budget coalition is pleased to see the fruits of our labor. While there’s more work to do, this budget is a clean break from the austerity politics of the past. Full statement here: peoplesplan.nyc/news/press-releases/191737/

NEW STATEMENT ON NYC BUDGET DEAL: It takes strong leadership for the Mayor to hear vociferous criticism on this issue and to consider and respond to it. Today @mayor.nyc.gov did just that. Full statement online here: rebrand.ly/d11b31

Something special is coming TOMORROW! 👀🎶 Come to our membership assembly tomorrow night to get the first look at the JFREJ songbook! Jfrej.org/songbook

By delivering on his campaign promise to increase funding for hate violence prevention by 800% and keep the NYPD headcount flat, @mayor.nyc.gov has significantly raised the bar for what it looks like to seriously address antisemitism & hate violence, and deliver safety. JFREJ's statement:

Anyway, join the Left(s) where we may be neurotic but we are also creative and many of us have a sense of humor and whimsy.

1. Major news. Mayor Mamdani has just announced $15 million in direct funding for trans youth care providers, the most concrete action his administration has taken since receiving significant criticism over its handling of trans youth. Subscribe to support our journalism.

JFREJ: “It was a fight between an out-of-touch establishment and a Jewish left with a real vision for our community that is grounded in human rights and dignity for all. And tonight, just like we did last June and this past November, the Jewish left won.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/n...

This is great & I’ll add one more aspect — while this is a broader national trend, it is particularly acute in New York because of a decade of a new Jewish left of organizing and culture (JFREJ, INN, JVP, Jewish Currents) that has fundamentally shifted the mainstream.

this cannot stand.

mensches in the trenches 🤌🏻

There’s a reason JFREJ prioritized electing Brad Lander & Eli Northrup this cycle. Both races were a fight for the future of the Jewish community: btwn an out-of-touch establishment and a Jewish Left w/ real vision grounded in human rights & dignity for all. We won, decisively.

RENT = FROZEN

We stand with @justicecommittee.bsky.social and the organizations calling for Care not Cuts! @mayor.nyc.gov must reject proposals that bolster the NYPD and promote Broken Windows Policing. #carenotcuts

BREAKING: days before budget deadline, 70 orgs deliver letter to @mayor.nyc.gov urging him to reverse NYPD expansion, stop broken windows policing, & invest in what really makes NYers safe: housing, healthcare & community-based support. Read: www.justicecommittee.org/post/70orgs-... #CareNotCops

I'm a proud democratic socialist whose politics were forged in the labor movement. My goal in Congress is to do everything I can to make it easier to join a union.

Outside City Hall with @justicecommittee.bsky.social @vocal-ny.bsky.social @drugpolicy.org @housingworksnyc.bsky.social @genderlib.com and more to tell @mayor.nyc.gov: #NoNewCops! #CareNotCops!

This is important and I wish I could go. Co-sponsored by a lotta great groups including @maketheroadny.bsky.social @courtwatchnyc.bsky.social and @jfrejnyc.bsky.social. Turn out if you can, NYC!

I’ve supported JFREJ for years, and it’s a great time to join.

thanks Meghan. It felt great to win so big in NYC last night. and it's more than a bit freaky, you're right, to see the change we've yearned for so badly start to happen. we appreciate your support

Two years after Darializa Avila Chevalier took part in the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University, she is now set to represent the district in which the university is located in Congress.

We’re building a powerful Jewish Left in New York. Join us!

New - I wrote about progressive Jewish ascendancy in Mamdanistan:

There is no universal child care without a dignified wage and benefits for the child care workforce. I am glad to see Mayor Mamdani taking that seriously.

Manhattan Valley, Morningside Heights, and the Upper West Side have shifted from liberal to left in its NYS Assembly rep. And so much of the credit belongs to @jfrejnyc.bsky.social. 🙏

We want to thank Yuh-Line Niou for her years of leading on taxing the rich, on care, and on multiracial solidarity. Time and again @yuhline.bsky.social has put movement first, and her leadership has built to this week’s wins.

Media outlets are running with the Kingmaker Mamdani narrative, but progressives also won last night bc hundreds of people organized for months to knock doors and get out the vote. I spoke with @jfrejnyc.bsky.social about why that's important for durable power on the left!

I talked to news about @bradlander.bsky.social “This is @jfrejnyc.bsky.social largest district… 1,000 members who have been craving representation that profoundly understands that Jewish values means taxing the rich, standing up with our neighbors against ICE & means standing up to a genocide.”

"While Mamdani likely had a strong influence in some races, so too did the volunteers that were knocking on doors to get the word out about candidates and their policy positions." ORGANIZING GETS THE GOODS!

It's easier for media to portray the election as an attack on American Jews than to delve into what NY-10 really was: The second most Jewish Congressional district in the US having a referendum between two Jewish candidates on what it means to do Jewish politics in the age of Trump and Netanyahu.

Turns out the NYPD *is* willing to hold officers accountable...when those officers hold back on arresting teenage fruit vendors. But when officers brutalize or kill New Yorkers, the blue wall of silence is impenetrable. This says everything about how the NYPD as an institution functions.

This primary saw some hotly contested races. Our job now is to band together, to form the broadest possible movement, led by the fiercest fighters we can put in power, to defeat fascism, and win the better world we know is possible.

Last year ➡️ This year 🥰 We're so proud of you @bradlander.bsky.social! (photos by Gili Getz)

"If you are an establishment Democrat that spent the last three decades sitting on your throne not doing right by your constituents, we’re coming for you." — Hasan Piker on the @hellgatenyc.com livestream

Dem moderates' job right now is to check the far right. the years of left punching are over. your allies are democratic socialists, not republicans. it is a matter of political survival.

Brad Lander, Ultimate Mensch. see you soon for this morning’s court-watch shift, @bradlander.bsky.social! (And you, the person reading this, can sign up to join him here: jfrej.org/deportation-defense)