In recognition of January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month, our NCJW Human Trafficking committee had a busy January with members making in-person presentations at City Council meetings throughout Palm Beach County on the techniques traffickers use to recruit minors for sex or labor trafficking and explanations about
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Add Your Voice to the letter at VoicesforHostages.org: Sign the letter to add your name condemning Hamas’s brutal attack and demanding the immediate release of all the hostages, including the men, being held by Hamas.
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Sheila Katz, CEO of NCJW, Speaks at Congressional Roundtable Highlighting the Sexual and Gender-based violence perpetrated by Hamas in Israel on October 7 In a Congressional roundtable convened by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, along with Reps. Susan Wild, Lois Frankel, and Kathy Manning, the issue of sexual
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Join the National Council of Jewish Women in the Jewish communal pledge to support abortion access. Our voices are needed now more than ever! The US Supreme Court is considering two abortion cases this term that could have a catastrophic impact on medication abortion and federal emergency
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Highland Elementary School is home to one of the first Kids Community Closets opened by NCJW Palm Beach in February 2012. For the past twelve years we have supplied the students with shirts, shorts, socks and underwear so that they could attend school in clean new clothing.
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Meeting on January 10th, the 2nd Wednesday of the month from 4-5 pm, our next Zoom book club meeting will be discussing the book The Measure, by Nikki Erick. This is a thought-provoking, powerful book about how we choose to live the moments in our lives. Marsha Kuhn will facilitate.
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Help, I need somebody! Help, not just anybody! What I need are some of YOU! Paul McCartney would be delighted to know you answered my plea. I know many of you have expressed interest in serving dinner at The Lewis Center. I apologize if you have offered
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You are cordially invited to tour Quantum House with NCJW Palm Beach on either January 10 or 11th to see why we support this incredible institution. Quantum House is located at St. Mary’s Hospital and offers affordable housing, meals, family activities, and an emergency safety net for
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SAVE THE DATE National Council of Jewish Women Palm Beach Section Announces its next event in our Wisdom of Women Series “ARE WE DIMMING THE LIGHT OF EDUCATION IN THE SUNSHINE STATE?” A Panel Discussion Date: Monday, February 12, 2024 Time: 4 pm – 6 pm Location: The
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Florida Ballot Initiative to protect access to abortion and ensure our personal medical decisions are ours and ours alone to make. SUCCESS!!!! Your efforts have yielded 1.4 million signed petitions!! That is enough to put abortion access on the ballot in Florida! Grassroots efforts have historically proven
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