The mission of the JCRC is to protect Jewish security, recognizing that Jewish security depends on a just society for all.” As human beings, we demand this as our natural right. As Jews, we ask: to what end? Do the Jewish people survive for ourselves alone, or is there a larger purpose? These values embody that purpose. 

Read our full Statement of Values.

I. Mutual Understanding and Respect

“What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the entire Torah, the rest is commentary. Go and study it.”

Hillel the Elder, Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Shabbat 31a”    

II. Religious Liberty

"By Liberty of Conscience, we understand not only a mere Liberty of the Mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but [also] the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship...."

Select Works of William Penn, 1771.     

Ill. Education and Knowledge

''A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels."

Proverbs 1:5.    

IV. Compassion for the Vulnerable and Bereft

"He that despiseth his neighbor, sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he."

Proverbs 14:21.   

V. Just and Peaceful Resolution of Disputes

"[A]nd they shall beat their swords into plough shares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war no more."

Isaiah 2:3-4.    

VI. Israel

"On the 29th November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-lsrael ... This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable. This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State."

Excerpt, Israel Declaration of Independence, May 15, 1948.