Mission

JCRC-LI’s mission is to inform, collaborate and mobilize the Long Island community to take action locally, nationally and internationally to address community relations issues important to both the Jewish and non-Jewish communities.

Goals

• Serve as an umbrella organization for Jewish institutions across Long Island
  
• Foster positive and meaningful inter-group/inter-faith relationships
• Serve as an information and advocacy resource about Israel and international affairs for the Jewish and non-Jewish communities
  
• Maintain an on-going dialogue between the Jewish community and governmental officials at the local, state and federal level

News

2012

• Jan. 30 - Salvadoran Aid in WWII Honored, Newsday
  
• Jan. 6 - Religious Leaders Rally for Destroyed Menorah
                 Newsday Article  and YouTube Coverage
  

2011

• Nov. 16  -  Liberalism, Human Rights, Israel & Middle East
  
• July 28   -  JCRC-LI and LI Salvadorans Event, YouTube
  
• May   3   -  Sikhs & Jews - Turban Meets Yarmulke, Jewish Week
• April  8   -  Shahar Azani Speaking on the Lives of Israeli Immigrants
  
• Feb. 17   -  Bigoted Graffiti Found on LIRR Platform, Five Towns Patch
  
• Feb. 16  -   JCRC-LI Inaugural Meeting withRepresentative McCarthy,
                                Five Towns Patch
• Feb.  4    -  Legislative Reception - JCRC-LI & UJA-Federation, Picture & Story
  
  

2010

• Nov. 14  -  JCRC-LI Visits Hickville Sikhs
  
• Nov.   4 -   Ethiopian-Israeli Teens at Hempstead HS
  

Background
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Long Island (JCRC-LI) was formed in order to establish a long term community relations agenda that is essential for the well-being of a vibrant Long Island Jewish community. The leadership of JCRC-LI will be comprised of Jews from both Nassau and Suffolk counties who are involved in Jewish, civic and business organizations. They willl work with the leadership of UJA-Federation of NY’s Long Island office and its beneficiary agencies.  In addition, JCRC-LI will work with area synagogues, Jewish day schools, and other Jewish organizations.

Long Island, home to approximately 2.8 million people (350,000  Jews), has been undergoing major demographic transformations.  Long Island has growing Hispanic as well as Asian (Indian, Korean, Chinese) communities.  As of 2010 the number of Hispanics equals the number of Jews.  In addition, the large Catholic and Black populations provide other opportunities to foster intergroup relations. Long Island institutions and neighborhoods face a plethora of issues with the increasing diversification of its residents.  It is important for the Jewish community to build on existing relationships and develop new ones with leaders of the established and emerging communities.  JCRC-LI will ensure that the Jewish community has a voice among the leaders of the community and will work with others fostering a spirit of collaboration and cooperation to benefit all of Long Island.

JCRC-LI will serve as a central coordinating body for Jewish community relations across Long Island.  It will operate as a nexus between community-based organizations and public and private institutions and will work  to open the lines of communication between communities. JCRC-LI will draw upon resources from the staff and lay leadership of JCRC-NY and bring a valued added organization, not only by Long Island Jewish institutions, but also by the non-Jewish community.

More Information
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