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In many states across the US, qualified lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and couples are prohibited from becoming foster or adopitve parents by discriminatory laws.
More than 100,000 children are currently in foster care awaiting adoption, and approximately 27,000 of those kids will turn 18 without ever finding a permanent home.
For the sake of those children — and as a testament to our nation’s commitment to equal rights — it is time to make a change. Speak out today!
"How can the 'consent of the governed' be given if the right to vote be denied?" asked Susan B. Anthony, whose birthday we celebrate on February 15. Yet, years after her hard-won gains for women's voting rights, there are a plethora of efforts now underway across the country to make voting harder by restricting the ease of casting a ballot. These efforts would undermine the "consent of the governed" just as surely as if the franchise were openly confined to white male property owners, as it was in the beginning of our republic.
Read more from CEO Nancy K. Kaufman in this latest post to her blog on The Huffington Post.
Hear first-hand from director of the Israel office, Shari Eshet, about issues affecting women's rights in Israel, updates about NCJW's Israeli women's empowerment initiatives, how Israel Granting Program grantees are improving the lives of women, children, and families in Israel, and much more!
Featured in this edition: Ways to take action for International Agunot Day on March 7, exciting news about the Israel Granting Program, and an update from the Women and Gender Studies program started by NCJW at Tel Aviv University.
The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) decried Thursday’s vote by the House Committee on the Judiciary in favor of the so-called Susan B Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Non-Discrimination Act (HR 3541, or PRENDA), a thinly disguised anti-abortion measure.
Read the statement from NCJW CEO Nancy K. Kaufman.
NCJW CEO Nancy K. Kaufman makes a special appearance on ShalomTV with Mark S. Golub as part of a roundtable discussion on contraception vs. freedom of religion.
The program will play this Sunday, February 19 at 12 noon, 6 pm and 11 pm; and Monday, February 20 at 3 pm. You can click here to see it at those times or go to the Shalom TV website and click, “Watch Live.”
Stand up and speak out with the NCJW Action Center.
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