NC Jewish Community Legislative Priorities 2025

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Jewish values are anchored in fairness, integrity, and societal responsibility. We believe that all people should be treated with respect and due process under the law. Our Jewish tradition compels us to make the world a more livable, sustainable, and just place through advocacy and action.

Reproductive Rights and Bodily Autonomy

Our Jewish values drive us to support full access to safe and legal abortion care. We support contraceptive access and pre- and post-natal maternal care. Restricting abortion availability infringes on our religious tradition that believes that personhood begins at first breath.

Public Education

Judaism celebrates the power of education and believes in the idea of learning for its own sake. We support strong public schools, affordable higher education and policies that uplift all students. We want teachers who are well trained, paid well and have incentives to make teaching a lifetime career.

Voting Rights and Election Laws

The core Judaic value of justice, is directly related to the constitutional promise of free and fair elections. Accessible voting is of great concern. We believe that our state should be making voting easier, not more difficult and that representational apportionment should reflect the communities that live there. Gerrymandering should be replaced with independent redistricting commissions.

For more information, or to be connected to your local Jewish community leadership, contact the NCDPJC President, Lisa Jewel, at 704.962.1039.