National Council of Jewish Women

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About Us

National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) is the oldest Jewish feminist civil rights organization working for equity and justice for women, children, and families in the United States and Israel.

Through the efforts of our 225,000 grassroots advocates and 49 local sections, NCJW combines education, direct service, and advocacy to affect lasting social change at the local, state, and national levels.

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Our Network

Since our beginnings in 1893, NCJW has been defined by our members’ commitment to advocacy and community service. Our members work through a grassroots network of sections, where people live their Jewish values every day in their individual communities. They are both deeply intertwined with the mission and message of NCJW and uniquely independent in their outreach to their local communities. Sections help write local and state-wide legislation, some of which later becomes a model in other states or at the federal level; train in the art of community organizing and power-building; lead in opening dialogue on any number of issues of importance to their populations; and run some of the most impressive and relied upon community service projects in the country.

Our sections are our history, but they are also our future. They distinguish us as an organization that can reach across borders and maintain dialogue in increasingly antagonistic times. They lend us our compassion and our purpose and they guide NCJW, in all of their fierce independent leadership, to be better, to work harder, to make a difference where it matters.

You can get involved locally by attending educational and social events, joining program committees, volunteering in community service programs, shopping at resale stores, lobbying with other section members and much more.