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National Council of Jewish Women

The National Council of Jewish Women, founded in 1893, describes itself as the oldest Jewish women's grassroots organization in the United States. Through 2010 the opening listed among its founding-era causes "religious education, opposition to anti-Semitism, international relief work, civil rights for blacks and women." Today the opening lists only its modern priorities, abortion access, judicial appointments, voting integrity, and Israeli feminist movements, and the word survives once in the body. A reader today does not learn that opposing antisemitism was once named among the organization's historic missions in its own opening description.
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National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who turn progressive ideals into action. Inspired by Jewish values, NCJW strives for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families and by safeguarding individual rights and freedoms.1 NCJW is an organization dedicated to community action and forward social movement according to 14 core principles based on and inspired by Jewish values. Started in 1893 under the leadership of Hannah Greenebaum Solomon , the NCJW has helped to develop the field of social work as well as creating employment opportunities within and outside of the Jewish community for women. Similar organizations exist outside the US such as the Jüdischer Frauenbund in Germany (founded in 1904) and The Union of Jewish Women in Great Britain (founded in 1902). According to the NCJW website, the council was formed at the 1893 World Parliament of Religions in Chicago to “shape the destinies” of American lives. Shaping the destinies of American lives meant, under Greenebaum Solomon, advocating women and children’s rights as well as women’s reproductive rights . According to Faith Rogow, author of Gone to Another Meetings: The National Council of Jewish Women (1893-1993) , the “NCJW was the offspring of the economic and social success achieved by German Jewish immigrants in the United States. As this community of German Jews matured and stabilized, it faced the same challenge to gender role definitions that had accompanied the Jacksonian Democracy a half century earlier." (Rogow 1995:2) NCJW also largely began one of its central focuses on education and employment for women by sponsoring and holding adult study circles to promote learning and leadership, providing vocational training for women and girls, developing school health programs and free health dispensaries, and working with Jane Addams ’ Hull House in Chicago. As these volunteers started to become more and more skilled in helping the community, the field of women’s social worker began. In its early stages the NCJW is most notably known for its involvement and participation in the Women’s division of President Hoover ’s Emergency Committee for employment to provide victims of the depression with job soliciting and placement. NCJW was involved in a number of movements in the beginning of the twentieth century that included immigrant aide, educational opportunities, maternal and infant health care, establishment of child labor laws, religious education, opposition to anti-Semitism, international relief work, civil rights for blacks and women and peace initiatives.[4] During World War I NCJW raised over 4 million dollars under Hannah Greenebaum Solomon, and also helped settle over 65,000 immigrants. In the middle part of the twentieth century new waves of feminism within Modern Judaism helped NCJW focus on reproductive and sexual health as well as mental health rights and reforms that work to expand the rights of patients. During this time period the NCJW also began researching and writing documents in relationship to children’s rights within the foster care system. In 1970 the NCJW officially published a series of documents: Windows on Day Care , the first nationwide survey of day care facilities and services; Children Without Justice , a study of the US Justice Department ’s work with foster children; and Innocent Victims , a comprehensive manual on child abuse detection and prevention. NCJW currently has over 90,000 members in the United States, and their current and global issues as well as statements of purpose and structure and chapters can be seen below.2

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grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who turn progressive ideals into action

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  • NCJW and Israel 1,913 characters
  • Recent and current campaigns 2,567 characters
  • Notable people 730 characters
  • Archives and collections 908 characters
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