JCRC Annual Meeting
Join us next Wednesday, May 22, 7:00 PM for our Annual Meeting as we honor the service of outgoing Board President Thorn Pozen.
D.C. Councilmember Brianne Nadeau and George Washington University Hillel Executive Director Adena Kirstein are the featured speakers.
May is Jewish American Heritage Month
Find resources to educate diverse public audiences about Jewish culture; and spark crucial conversations about the more than 350-year history of Jewish contributions to America.
Annual Holocaust Commemoration
Watch the 2024 Holocaust Commemoration program and learn about other Holocaust education initiatives.
Israel At War: Updates and Resources
Visit our Israel at War resource page to take action and learn more about the JCRC’s ongoing work since the October 7th massacre carried out by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel.
JCRC By The Numbers
$8,000,000 government funding for community security & social services
5,000 students and teachers met with a holocaust survivor
800 students trained to advocate for Israel
Rooting antisemitism out of K-12 schools requires proven, bipartisan solutions
Every child deserves to be safe at school, but that right is being denied to Jewish students in too many places.
In my role managing the council’s school-based programming and advocacy, I have seen up close the increasingly frequent and graphic nature of antisemitic incidents in Montgomery County schools.
‘Get Your Phil’ with Ron Halber
Since Oct. 7, it’s been an all-hands-on-deck as the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington has scrambled to respond to over 100 antisemitic incidents in schools, the JCRC’s executive director, Ron Halber, told eJewishPhilanthropy Managing Editor Judah Ari Gross in the latest installment of “Get Your Phil.”
Local Leaders Show Their Support for the Jewish Community
Guila Franklin Siegel, associate director of the North Bethesda-based Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington (JCRC), says she had a long list of non-Jewish school, community and religious leaders she considers allies in the fight against Jewish hate.