community relations council

Our values:

Kehillah (gathering together), Tzedek Tirdof (pursuing justice), Re'ut (mutual respect)

Our mission:

The Community Relations Council seeks to teach and apply Jewish values to work toward a more just society and a strong, vibrant Jewish community.

What we do:

• Build consensus within the organized Jewish community to articulate a shared vision or agreed upon action.
• Collaborate with government, ethnic, faith and community entities on our focus areas and consensus issues.

Our focus areas:

Confronting Poverty
Government Relations
Holocaust Education
Israel
Interfaith Relations
Environment

Leadership:

The Board of the Community Relations Council is a representative board, consisting of synagogue and agency representatives, along with members-at-large.

Board Chair: Eric Rosenblum
Past Chairs: Heidi Eisips, Harold Goldberg
Rabbinic Representative: Rabbi Joel Fleekop
National JCPA Board Representative: Harold Goldberg
State JPAC Board Representatives: Edgardo Laber, Ron Cohn
Plenum Delegates: David Ginsborg, Harold Goldberg, Heidi Eisips, Eric Rosenblum

Committee Chairs
Israel: Rob Chaykin, Einat Bauman
Energy/Environment: Michael Dine
Hunger/Poverty: Andrea Harris
Interfaith: Harry Cornbleet
Multi-Cultural: Harold Goldberg
Holocaust Education: Doris Schwarz-Lisenbee
Government Affairs: David Ginsborg, Ron Cohn

Synagogue/Agency Representatives
Einat Bauman - Sequoia Aviv Hadassah
Rob Chaykin - member at large
Ron Cohn - APJCC
Harry Cornbleet - Congregation Beth David
Holly Daniel-Sanghvi - member at large
Michael Dine- member at large
Dorothy Dorsay - Congregation Beth David
Heidi Eisips - Congregation Shir Hadash
Rabbi Joel Fleekop - Cantors & Rabbis Association of Greater San Jose
Marcia Gerston - Temple Emanu-El
Nancy Gerston - Temple Emanu-El
David Ginsborg - Congregation Shir Hadash
Harold Goldberg - Congregation Sinai
Andrea Harris - member at large
Geoff Jackson - Congregation Emeth
Jane Jacobson - Sharone Hadassah
Edgardo Laber - Yavneh Day School
Laura Nachison - member at large
Genevieve Platt - Silicon Valley Holocaust Survivors Association
Eric Rosenblum - Chair - Congregation Sinai
Doris Schwarz-Lisenbee - Silicon Valley Holocaust Survivors Association
Rick Zinman- Temple Beth El – Aptos

Contact JCRC

For more information on JCRC activities, or to volunteer, contact Diane Fisher at (408) 357-7504 or diane@jvalley.org.

JCRC
c/o Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley
14855 Oka Road, Los Gatos, CA, 95032

current events

trip invigorates local efforts to strengthen ties between blacks, jews

Forty years after the civil rights movement, a Jewish woman and a black man sat next to each other on an Alabama bus, working together to reduce poverty and strengthen ties between Jewish and black leaders.

“We weren’t just tourists — at each stop we had speakers from a very diverse spectrum of folks from Alabama teaching us about the civil rights movement and what’s going on in Alabama today,” said Diane Fisher of San Jose. Read more

2010-2011 JCRC EMERGING LEADER AWARD

David Ginsborg is the recipient of the JCRC Emerging Leader Award for 2010-2011. David has been actively involved in government relations with JCRC, as well as interfaith relations. As part of the award David will be attending the national JCPA Plenum in Washington, DC in March, 2011. Previous recipients of this award are Harry Cornbleet (2009-2010) and Eric Rosenblum (2008-2009).