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	Jewish Council for Public Affairs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jewish Council for Public Affairs, JCPA, is self described as "the representative voice of the organized American Jewish community".
		The JCPA is a partnership of national groups, local and community relations councils, and Jewish federations.
		The JCPA serves as the representative voice of the organized American Jewish community in addressing the mandate of the Jewish community relations field.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_Council_for_Public_Affairs (333 words)

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		Public opinion Public opinion is the aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs held by the adult population.
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	Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
		The symbol of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs is taken from the Bunting Map (1581) which depicted the main continents of the world - Europe, Asia, and Africa - in the form of a cloverleaf, with a meeting-point at Jerusalem, in the center.
		Given the historical background, it is impossible to argue that the Palestinians have a claim to the Land of Israel superior to that of the Jews.
		The report is based on a conference on the subject of Defensible Borders held jointly by the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, headed by MK Yuval Steinitz, and the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs in November 2004, with the presentations updated and expanded.
	www.jcpa.org (2683 words)

	World Affairs Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The General Affairs and External Relations Council is one of the oldest configurations of the Council of the European Union.
		At its sessions on General Affairs, the Council deals with dossiers that affect more than one of the Union's policies, such as negotiations on EU enlargement, preparation of the Union's multi—annual budgetary perspective or institutional and administrative issues.
		The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) is US non-governmental organization (NGO) whose stated goal is to promote the common interests of the hemisphere, raise the visibility of regional affairs and increase the importance of the inter-American relationship, as well as encourage the formulation of rational and constructive U.S. policies towards Latin America.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/215/world-affairs-council.html (989 words)

	Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The national policy-making and coordinating body for the Jewish community relations field, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) and its 13 national and 122 local members of Jewish community relations agencies address a wide range of domestic and international public affairs issues.
		JCPA and local groups consult and work with campus groups on a range of community relations and public policy issues, strategies and advocacy and provide information, materials, speakers, and other resources.
		Hillel's annual public policy forum, The Charlotte and Jack J. Spitzer B'nai Brith Hillel Forum on Public Policy is held in conjunction with the annual JCPA Plenum.
	www.hillel.org /hillel/Partner_Agency.nsf/0/A1C129485440C2E98525687E004CC3BB?OpenDocument (126 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		But the council cautioned that "our abiding objection to proselytization targeted at Jews must be clear and consistent." Evangelicals have long been viewed with suspicion by many Jews for their zealous missionary efforts.
		Jewish public policy groups such as the council have also differed with evangelicals on domestic political issues, including women's and reproductive rights and church-and-state separation.
		The Jewish Labor Committee's executive director, Avi Lyon, a member of the Claims Conference board who led opposition to the resolution at the plenum, questioned whether the JCPA, as an umbrella organization, should appear to be dictating one group's policy.
	www.gbgm-umc.org /interrelig/plenum2-03.doc (7485 words)

	Executive Summary: 1999-2003
		Earlier public symposia were also held in winter 2001, co-sponsored by the Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia and in the Boston area, co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Center of the North Shore in May 2000.
		Jewish Polity and American Civil Society: Communal Agencies and Religious Movements in the American Public Square, Edited by Alan Mittleman, Jonathan D. Sarna and Robert Licht (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002) is an encyclopedic treatment of public square activity conducted by both the civil and religious agencies of the organized Jewish community.
		The Jewish public is especially reticent to endorse prayer in schools or school vouchers, but almost half (48 percent) supports a moment of silence for voluntary prayer and 56 percent support the teaching of Christmas carols as long as Hanukkah songs are also taught.
	www.cjcs.net /execsum.htm (10113 words)

	ExecSearches.com non profit job listings
		The Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) is the community relations and public affairs arm of the organized Jewish community.
		The Executive Director is the chief professional officer of JCPA and is responsible for providing leadership and vision to the staff, board, and member agencies.
		JCPA seeks an Executive Director who will continue to build JCPA’s resources and strategies; enhance its visibility and relationships with members and funders and make volunteer leadership development an important area of the organization’s work.
	www.execsearches.com /exec/JobDetailsPlain.asp?job_id=8319 (270 words)

	JUF News and Public Affairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Yisrael Harel, founder of the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, told the mission participants that even if a solution could be found for Palestinians in the West Bank by returning to the pre-1967 borders, this still would not solve the demographic challenge.
		The JCPA, as a regular practice, meets with the directors in Israel of the UJC (Nachman Shai), AIPAC (Wendy Singer), ADL (Joel Golovensky), AJCommittee (Col. Eran Lerman), and AJCongress (Rabbi David Clayman).
		The group also was briefed by a representative of the Jewish Agency about the positive impact of the IEC on Israeli society generally.
	www.juf.org /news_public_affairs/article.asp?key=3674 (3822 words)

	The Need for a Latino-Islamic Public Affairs Council
		Because of their immense influence and control of the mainstream media and the curricula of public and private education in the USA and other countries, these Zionists have had a major impact on the attitudes of non-Muslim youths towards Islam.
		The creation of the Council was approved, according to our information, in a closed-door meeting in Washington in September of this year.
		One of the goals for the Zionists, according to Ann Schaffer, Director of the American Jewish Committee's Belfer Center for American Pluralism, is an agreement by the Jewish community to support increased aid to Latin America in exchange for Latino backing for higher levels of aid to Israel.
	www.aztlan.net /lipac.htm (1269 words)

	UJC/JCC of Greater Harrisburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Community Center of Greater Harrisburg is the arm of the UJC which focuses on political and social policy issues, both within the Jewish and general communities.
		Membership is comprised of at-large delegates of all Jewish congregations and organizations in the Greater Harrisburg area and is open to anyone in the community who is willing to attend meetings and show a continuing interest and involvement with its activities.
		A member of the National Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), the CRC maintains relationships and dialogue with other religious and ethnic groups in the area and remains vigilant for any organization or group that seeks to bridge our freedoms.
	www.hbgjewishcommunity.com /beta/jcc/ujc/community_relations.htm (141 words)

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		JCPA is the coordinating body for 13 different national Jewish organizations, plus 125 local Jewish federations and community relations councils.
		Until mid-2002, the Council struggled with information from at least five different spreadsheets, various Word documents, contacts folders, several databases and numerous Web site lists, none of which "spoke" to the others.
		JCPA uses the power of Sage Fundraising 100 to manage its finances.
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	The Jewish Council for Public Affairs - Press Releases - 20020912 - JCPA Praises Bush UN Speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Jewish Council for Public Affairs - Press Releases - 20020912 - JCPA Praises Bush UN Speech
		New York, NY - Michael Bohnen, Chair of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), released the following statement today praising President Bush for his “clear and strong message” delivered at the opening of the United Nation’s General Assembly:
		JCPA, the public affairs arm of the organized Jewish community, serves as the national coordinating and advisory body for the 13 national and 123 local agencies comprising the field of Jewish community relations.
	www.e-guana.net /organizations.php3?action=printContentItem&orgid=54&typeID=78&itemID=2192&User_Session=6b3327f37a176846f81ff0ed4b04bb4e (166 words)

	USCCB - (Office of Media Relations) - Rabbis, Bishops Give Reflections on Pilgrimage to Israel And Rome
		The joint statement was released by Rabbi Joel H. Zaiman, Chairman of the Committee on Interreligious Affairs of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, and Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore, Episcopal Moderator for Catholic-Jewish Relations, Bishops' Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs.
		Planned together from the outset by Project Interchange of the American Jewish Committee and the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, the journey was sponsored by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.
		One stop, at the ancient Synagogue in Capernaum, where Jesus preached, saw perhaps for the first time in two millennia the successors of the apostles and the heirs of the Talmudic masters, clustered, not in disputation, but in mutual enlightenment.
	www.nccbuscc.org /comm/archives/1998/98-065.shtml (683 words)

	Jewish Council For Public Affairs And Million Mom March Join AJCongress Gun Control Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		According to AJCongress President Jack Rosen, the organization is in the process of assembling a coalition of like- minded groups from within and outside the Jewish community to distribute petitions and to acquire signatures.
		The American Jewish Congress, founded in 1918 by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Justice Louis D. Brandeis and other distinguished Jews, specializes in combatting all forms of bigotry through law and legislation.
		Considered the legal voice of the American Jewish Community, it works to safeguard Jewish interests, protect basic freedoms enshrined in the American Bill of Rights and to advance the security of Israel.
	www.ajcongress.org /pages/RELS1999/OCT99REL/oct99_05.htm (305 words)

	DRAFT
		As the oldest international migration and refugee resettlement agency in the U.S., HIAS, the migration arm of the organized American Jewish community, played a major role in the rescue and relocation of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and of Jews from Morocco, Ethiopia, Egypt and the communist countries of Eastern Europe.
		The Jewish community is greatly concerned about the major changes that were instituted in the U.S. asylum system in 1996, changes that we believe threaten to undermine refugee protection and US global leadership in this area.
		Today, just a few weeks after Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Jewish community is very aware of the tragic consequences of the United States’ decision in the early 1920s to close the doors to large-scale immigration.
	judiciary.senate.gov /oldsite/te050301lsg.htm (3421 words)

	Remarks for Jewish Council for Public Affairs - February 18, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		But I could not resist a pause in today's occupations to accept this award from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, an organization comprising agencies devoted to the social imperatives of Judaism.
		Preparing some years ago for a lecture on the Jewish Justices who preceded Justice Breyer and me, I learned that Louis D. Brandeis was not the first Jewish nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
		He was intensely involved in public affairs, though you and I would agree that he chose the wrong side.
	www.supremecourtus.gov /publicinfo/speeches/sp_02-18-02.html (1368 words)

	Strategies for Success in Jewish Communal Service Research, Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		This is the premier index for scholarly articles — in journals and in collections of essays — on all aspects of Jewish studies.
		Jewish organizations form an integral part of local and national communities in all parts of the globe.
		Research center on Jewish demography, Anti-Semitism, Zionism, the Yishuv, and the State of Israel; houses a repository of Jewish documentary films.
	www.jtsa.edu /library/guides/social_work.shtml (2185 words)

	Brit Tzedek v'Shalom - Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace
		In about a week, delegates of local Jewish Community Relations Councils (JCRC¹s) from around the country will be attending the annual plenum of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) in Baltimore, MD, February 22-25, 2003.
		We ask you to FAX, EMAIL, or CALL your local Jewish Community Relations Council and ask them to instruct their delegates to vote against any amendments to this resolution that would remove the call for a two-state solution and the freezing of all settlement construction.
		This resolution voices strong support for Israel on the part of the organized Jewish community, recognizes a two-state solution as the best means to a peaceful and just resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and calls on the Israeli government to freeze all settlement construction as an instrumental step in that process.
	www.btvshalom.org /actionalerts/aa02-03.shtml (713 words)

	14 Tishrei 5766 - OU.ORG - Your Gateway To The Jewish Internet - Torah, Jerusalem, Israel, Kosher, NCSY, and More... ...
		October is NA'IM The OU and Yachad, the National Jewish Council for Disabilities Announce October as North American Inclusion Month.
		Join a discussion or start a discussion on what's going on in Israel, Jewish life in your community, our online shiurim or anything else you might be interested in.
		Jewish Action, the magazine of the OU, will be focusing on business ethics in an upcoming issue.
	www.ou.org (386 words)

	AJCONGRESS' WILL MASLOW HONORED BY JCPA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		(February 2, 1998) Will Maslow, General Counsel for the American Jewish Congress and a leader in the struggle for civil rights and civil liberties for more than a half century, will be the recipient of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) prestigious Albert D. Chernin Award.
		The Chernin Award is given annually by the JCPA, formerly the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (NJCRAC), to an individual who best exemplifies the social justice imperatives of Judaism, Jewish history and the protection of the Bill of Rights.
		He was editor of AJCongress "Boycott Report," a well-respected newsletter, which for 16 years monitored and focused public attention on developments.
	www.ajcongress.org /pages/RELS1998/feb98rel/feb98_01.htm (453 words)

	Programs and Services (Critical Needs) provided by the Jewish Family and Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The event was sponsored by Jewish Family and Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia and the Task Force on Jewish Poverty, both agencies of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.
		And this in a city famous for its Jewish philanthropy and national leadership.
		The Executive Director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, whose focus is on equal opportunity and social justice, civil rights and Jewish security, has simple advice:
	www.jfcsphil.org /art_pov.htm (524 words)

	Zionist Organization of America - December 17, 1997 - ZOA: New Poll on Israel by Jewish Council on Public Affairs ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		NEW YORK- A public opinion poll now being carried out by the Jewish Council on Public Affairs (formerly NJCRAC) contains questions whose wording is slanted in a way that could encourage answers critical of current Israeli policy, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has warned.
		The poll, which is being distributed to a number of American Jews by mail, consists of questions about Israel and other issues.
		Third, it makes no reference whatsoever to Israel's historical, religious, moral and legal rights to build in those territories, thus making it seem as if Israeli construction is unjustified.
	www.zoa.org /pressrel/19971217a.htm (372 words)

	Speech by Congressman Elijah Cummings
		And the truth is that some Jewish individuals and groups worked to defeat two members of the Congressional Black Caucus last year.
		That reality is why the Congressional Black Caucus strongly supports: - increased federal aid for public education, - a higher minimum wage, and - a combination of extended unemployment compensation and job training for Americans who are out of work through no fault of their own.
		And it is the same message that the Jewish Council for Public Affairs -- and all of the Council's partners in cities and towns throughout our land -- have traditionally work so hard to achieve.
	www.house.gov /cummings/speech/sp022403.htm (3401 words)

	JTA NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		NEW YORK, June 15 (JTA) — The national public affairs arm of the Jewish community has hired a new executive director whose background combines religion, politics and public policy.
		Rabbi Steve Gutow, 56, who has worked as a Reconstructionist rabbi, a lawyer and a Jewish communal professional, will take over the helm of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs on Aug. 1.
		The JCPA represents 13 national Jewish agencies and 122 local community relations councils and the Jewish federations with which they are affiliated to promote a just American society and protect Jews around...
	www.jta.org /page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=15526&intcategoryid=4 (163 words)

	NCSJ- 907 Passes Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Eleven Jewish groups, representing the organized Jewish community in the United States, have welcomed the inclusion of language to the Senate Foreign Operations appropriations bill that will ease restrictions on US assistance to Azerbaijan, a critical American ally in the war against international terrorism.
		In a letter to senators, the Jewish groups observed that an easing of Section 907 “advances America’s immediate defense needs and long-term strategic objectives in the Caspian Basin....
		As Jewish organizations representing the consensus of Jewish communities and national leadership across the United States, we urge you to support S. 1521 which advances America’s immediate defense needs and long-term strategic objectives in the Caspian Basin.
	www.ncsj.org /AuxPages/102901Section907.shtml (579 words)

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