A Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) is a locally based Jewish organization that carries out "action agendas on behalf of and in the name of the local Jewish communities." Councils may aim "to represent the consensus of the organized Jewish community" in the cities in which they operate, and then assist in consulting other local stakeholders on matters of importance to Jewish community values. In the United States, JCRCs are affiliated with the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) organization, and relate to that national organization in a variety of ways.
6-712: JCRC may refer to: Jewish Community Relations Council , a local or regional council in the United States Joint Casualty Resolution Center , a US joint-service military organisation to locate US personnel Missing in action in the Vietnam War Joint Clinical Research Centre , an HIV/AIDS research institution in Uganda Japan Contents Review Center ,
12-577: A Japanese video and game self-censorship organization Japan Casino Regulatory Commission , a Japanese government agency that regulates casinos Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title JCRC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JCRC&oldid=1192217049 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
18-622: A community, as local communities were not content to leave this activity solely to national defense organizations like the American Jewish Committee , American Jewish Congress , and Anti-Defamation League , which rarely consulted with each other or with local leadership. Like these national organizations, JCRCs focused primarily on combatting antisemitism. In 1944, the National Community Relations Advisory Council (later renamed
24-448: A joint office. Typically, the board of directors of a JCRC include local representatives of national organizations and local synagogues. The key to the uniqueness of JCRCs compared to other Jewish communal entities is that they are locally-based bodies and carry out action agendas on behalf of and in the name of the local Jewish communities. JCRCs came into being in the 1930s to provide a means for coordination of defense activity within
30-471: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jewish Community Relations Council Jewish Community Relations Councils (JCRC) are Jewish local advocacy arms in the United States. Most major centers of Jewish populations have a JCRC, and are either constituent departments of the local Jewish federation , totally independent, or functioning as
36-764: The Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) was formed as an umbrella organization of 14 local JCRCs, the ADL, the two AJCs, and the Jewish Labor Committee , in the United States. In 2000, the JCPA counted among its membership 120 JCRCs. According to Professor Daniel Elazar , from the 1950s, the JCRCs with the JCPA and federations played the largest role in Jewish representation. Their importance increased by
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