National Oil Independence
May 12, 2009
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Northern California of San Francisco supports development of a U.S. policy to achieve independence from imported oilÉ

Immigration Issues
May 12, 2009
Historically, the American Jewish community has supported generous and rational immigration laws and policies...

Religion and Elections
August 12, 2008
The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), representing nearly 80 synagogues and Jewish organizations, joins with the Anti Defamation League in expressing concerns about the growing prominence of religion as a part of the political election process...

Same - Sex Civil Marriage
February 14, 2006
One of the JCRC's core values is B'Tselem Elohim - the belief that all people are created in God's image and accordingly each person's life is of infinite value... Proposition 47 - California Public Education Facilities Bond Act
October 8, 2002
JCRC supports quality public education for all pupils... 9/11 Terror Attack and Its Aftermath
October 23, 2001
We, along with all Americans, were horrified and saddened by the loss of innocent life inflicted by the terrorists' act of war against our nation on September 11... The Knight Initiative (Proposition 22) and Discrimination Against Gay Men and Lesbians
February 8, 2000
Based upon our examination of the broader issues, we have decided to oppose Proposition 22... Gun Control and Gun Violence
October 12, 1999
Recent months have brought a sharp increase in high profile shootings around the country... Endorsing an Eruv in Palo Alto
August 31, 1998
The Jewish Community Relations Council endorses the efforts of the Palo Alto Community Eruv Corporation to build an Eruv in Palo Alto... Educational Vouchers
February 10, 1998
The JCRC opposes school voucher proposals and other methods of funding private school education with public funds... Domestic Violence
March 12, 1997
Domestic violence touches upon the lives of people from all socioeconomic levels, ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and religious groups, including the Jewish community... The California Civil Rights Initiative (Proposition 209)
June 25, 1996
The initiative, which will be on the November, 1996 ballot, would write into the California Constitution language which prohibits all gender and race-based preferences in the public arena... Affirmative Action
October 12, 1995
The Jewish community has a critical stake in and an historic commitment to the democratic principle of a pluralistic society with equal opportunity for every individual, and in the American ideal of measuring people on the basis of their individual merit rather than their group identity... Immigration
September 14, 1993
The American Jewish community has long supported a liberal immigration policy, both because of modern Jewish historical imperatives and because the pluralistic nature of American society, which is rooted in our immigrant tradition, is good for the Jews... Cultural Exchange
March 14, 1972
Most Americans support the concept of cultural exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union as a means to improve international understanding and the cause of world peace... Policy on 'Academically Talented'
December, 1971
...the strength of the schools depends in part on the support of all the parents of the city, who are properly concerned vith the diverse educational needs of their children, whatever they may be... Administrative Tenure
April, 1971
San Francisco has an unusual system of tenure built into its Charter for school administrators. Historically, it was created to forestall these administrative plans being used for political reasons... Soviet Jewry
March 9, 1971
The JCRC believes that every opportunity must be taken to actively keep the public spotlight on the problem of Soviet Jewry... Integration
May 18, 1970
The Jewish Community Relations Council has from the outset supported the objective of racial integration of San Francisco's public schools within a context of educational quality... Integration
March, 1969
The Jewish community has a historic stake in a)a strong public school system; b) a well-educated general citizenry; c) the reduction of interracial conflict and violence. The JCRe believes strongly that the reduction of racial imbalance in the schools is an indispensable element in all three of these goals... NLRA Coverage for California Agricultural Workers
September 10, 1968
The issue of equal rights under the law for farm laborers has great import in our community today... Education for All
March, 1967
Everybody who desires and who is qualified for a higher education should get it and economic disadvantage should not be allowed to stand in his way... Statement to the Curriculum Commission
1966
The Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco having received over the years a small but steady stream of expressions of concern on this subject by parents of Jewish children attending public schools, urges the Curriculum Commission in reviewing song-books for use... Right of Protest and Dissent
October, 1966
The principle of the free expression of opinion and the right therefore to dissent is the cornerstone of the American democratic process... General Education
May 17, 1966
The Jewish Community is, of coure, made up of individual citizens, taxpayers and parents whose interests are as broad and whose viewpoints are generally as diverse as those of the total population... Integration
August 10, 1965
...the Jewish Community Relations Council is deeply troubled by the pervasive racial imbalance which exists in the San Francisco school system... The Jewish Community and the Public Schools
February, 1965
The Jewish community has a special stake in the American public school system. It is within this school system that a working American pluralism has been most effectively developed and tested... Proposition 14: Housing Discrimination
August, 1964
Proposition 14 would do more than wipe the state fair housing law off the books. It would freeze into the State Constitution a prohibition against any state or local public body ever doing anything about the problem of housing discrimination... Birmingham and Related Matters
May 1, 1963
The events in Birmingham have not revealed Êany new interracial problems; but they have dramatized some of the consequences of allowing our old problems to fester unsolved... First Amendment
July 30, 1962
We look with a deep concern on any attempt to tinker with the constitutional formula under which religious liberty has flourished in America as it has nowhere else in the world...