Since 2022, Jewish California has successfully advocated for over $450 million dollars from the state budget for a wide range of community projects, including enhancing community security initiatives, rebuilding Jewish summer camps destroyed in wildfires, expanding our Holocaust education institutions, and securing vital resources for seniors, immigrants, and people experiencing food insecurity. We have helped pass crucial legislation to counter antisemitism and hate, expand mental health, anti-poverty, and anti-hunger initiatives, and support immigrants and older adults. And we led the advocacy efforts to remove antisemitic content from the state’s ethnic studies curriculum.

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We work closely with the Legislative Jewish Caucus and other allies in the California State Legislature to further core Jewish community issues and values. Our annual policy priorities consist of bills and budget requests that meaningfully address the Jewish community’s security and discrimination concerns and provide critical social services for those in need.

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Jewish California uses our community’s collective reach and strength to help build the world we want to live in – for ourselves and for all vulnerable people across California.

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