To our trans siblings: Your life is holy & you are sacred -- we see you in your wholeness, we love you, & we've got your back. 🏳️‍⚧️❤️

We cannot & will not allow our government to deny medical care based on cruel, distorted, & bigoted ideology. We will continue to fight for the liberation & care of our extended trans family.

Lastly, one thing that definitely can be left in 2025 is spotify! Head to @workingfamilies.org to learn about the “Spotify Unwrapped” campaign to call attention to Spotify’s ties to ICE and their treatment of musicians ‼️

We would love you to be a part of our 2026 wrapped, join us at our membership assembly January 15th: jfrej.org/assembly

Real solidarity looks like a stranger running toward danger to protect people who don't look like him or pray like him. That's the world JFREJ is fighting for, hand in hand with our partners across all lines of difference, all over this city. (8/8)

At JFREJ we are grounded in our understanding that antisemitism and Islamophobia are not opposing forces - they’re both animated by an othering that serves powerful interests seeking to divide us. (7/8)

When politicians exploit Jewish grief and death to advance anti-Muslim hatred - while ignoring the growing white supremacist movements that pose the greatest threat to Jews - they aren't protecting us. They're using us. (6/8)

Our tradition teaches, to save a life is to save a whole universe. We've said it before, and we'll keep saying it: Jewish safety cannot be built on the persecution of others. (5/8)

Here's what they're not mentioning: when gunmen opened fire on the Hanukkah celebration in Australia, a Muslim man named Ahmed al Ahmed ran toward the shooting, wrestled a gun away from 1 of the attackers & was injured protecting people he'd never met. In a astonishing act of courage he saved lives.

Not to grieve with us, but to scapegoat our Muslim neighbors with ugly and racist threats. (3/8)

As Jewish communities around the world lit Hanukkah candles in grief yesterday - holding our loved ones a little closer, wondering if it could happen here - some politicians in New York and around the country saw an opportunity. (2/8)

We live in a time of terrifying political violence, and JFREJ is fighting for a world where these kinds of attacks on Jews and on anyone would be a nightmare of the past.

Baruch dayan haemet. (2/2)