Jewish Coalition to End Human Trafficking



The Jewish Coalition to End Human Trafficking

Presents:

“Why is Human Trafficking a Jewish Issue?”

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

5:00 to 7:00pm

at

The Jewish Family and Children’s Services Library

2150 Post Street (between Scott and Pierce), San Francisco, CA 94115

Join us for a compelling panel discussion focusing on the interrelationship between Judaism and emancipation: the gravity of trafficking in Israel, the relationship between trafficking and domestic violence, as well as some first-hand accounts of modern-day slavery and survivorship.

Featured speakers: Rabbi Jonthan Jaffee, Congregation Emanu-El

Becky Buckwald, NIF

Lisa Caper, JFCS

Antonia Lavine, NCJW

Sponsoring organizations: Jewish Coalition to End Human Trafficking, Shalom Bayit, Progressive Jewish Alliance and American Jewish World Service

Moderated by Nancy Goldberg, Co-Chair of the San Francisco Collaborative Against Human Trafficking (SFCAHT)

Light refreshments provided. RSVP to Ann Singer at info@ or (415) 346-4600 by January 27, 2010.

There is no charge for this event.

Please bring a donation of toiletries (sample sizes that you may have collected from hotels, for example) for the Coalition’s use in hygiene kits that we give to shelters and service providers that work with victims of trafficking and domestic violence.

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Jewish Coalition to End Human Trafficking

Mission Statement: The JCEHT is committed to broadening the community’s understanding of global human trafficking and the scope of the problem, and to working toward its eradication. 

About JCEHT and its scope of service: The JCEHT was established as an informational resource and outreach project for the benefit of the Bay Area community, often acting as a liaison to the Jewish community and trafficking victim service provider organizations, local law enforcement and government agencies. Our chief areas of work are focused on:

1. educating the community about human trafficking abuses at home and abroad.

2. working with and acting as a liaison to social service providers such as SAGE (Standing Against Global Exploitation), the Asian Anti-Trafficking Collaborative (including Asian Pacific Islanders Legal Outreach, Cameron House, Asian Women’s Shelter and Narika) and others. 

3. championing or supporting legislation to provide better services to victims of human trafficking and stricter penalties against the perpetrators of trafficking.

Who We Are: The Jewish Coalition is composed:

Jewish Family and Children’s Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

For more than 150 years Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties has offered a helping hand that people can rely on in times of need—cradle to rocking chair. JFCS is the oldest social service agency west of the Mississippi. Since its inception JFCS has been a catalyst for change. With over 40 programs serving more than 55,000 people annually in the Greater West Bay Area of Northern California, JFCS reaches out with comprehensive, integrated social services, helping people in the most effective, compassionate way possible, and providing people of all ages, faiths and ethnic backgrounds with the encouragement and tools they need to become productive and self-reliant. 

Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, Sonoma, Alameda and Contra Costa Counties 

JCRC is the central public affairs arm of the organized Jewish community. It represents more than 80 synagogues and Jewish organizations in the Bay Area on issues that impact the rights and protection of Jews as individuals and as a community here and abroad. JCRC seeks to establish the consensus of the local organized Jewish community on public issues and to present this consensual position to the general community, the media and public officials. Volunteers and JCRC members, in coordination with staff, establish policies on pressing social issues, which then translate into community action. 

National Council of Jewish Women - San Francisco Section 

NCJW is the oldest Jewish women’s organization in the country, a force for social change, taking a progressive stand on issues such as child welfare, women's rights, and reproductive freedom. NCJW works through a program of research, education, advocacy, and community service to improve the quality of life for women, children, and families and strives to ensure individual rights and freedoms for all.   In addition to the Section’s long standing community service programs, the section is actively involved in programming that focuses on helping girls and young women who are victims of trafficking, violence and / or sexual exploitation. 

New Israel Fund

NIF is the leading organization committed to democratic change within Israel. Founded in 1979 in San Francisco, the New Israel Fund fights for social justice and equality for all Israelis.  We believe that Israel can live up to its founders' vision of a state that ensures complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants, without regard to religion, race or gender. An international partnership of Israelis, Americans, Canadians and Europeans, we are widely credited with building Israel's progressive civil society from scratch; and through our action arm, Shatil, we mentor, train and lead Israeli civil society in an ongoing struggle to empower the underprivileged. 

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Event Co-Sponsors:

American Jewish World Service

AJWS is an international development organization motivated by Judaism's imperative to pursue justice. AJWS is dedicated to alleviating poverty, hunger and disease among the people of the developing world regardless of race, religion or nationality. Through grants to grassroots organizations, volunteer service, advocacy and education, AJWS fosters civil society, sustainable development and human rights for all people, while promoting the values and responsibilities of global citizenship within the Jewish community.

AVODAH

The Jewish Service Corps engages young Jews in direct work on the causes and effects of poverty in the Unites States. This work brings important resources to low income communities and equips its Corps members and alumni to emerge as lifelong agents for social change, whose work for justice is rooted in and nourished by Jewish values.

Progressive Jewish Alliance

The mission of Progressive Jewish Alliance is to engage Jews of diverse backgrounds to learn, lead and act in our communities to create a more just and equal society. Our vision of social transformation is inspired by our shared Jewish values and realized through partnership with allies both local and national. We are a progressive voice in the Jewish community and a Jewish voice in the progressive community.

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