Major Annual JCRC Events

Legislative Reception

Many community leaders and volunteers get the opportunity each year to speak informally with a number of elected and appointed officials at the JCFR’s Legislative Reception. Officials include many state, county and city officials and school board members as well as representatives from the offices of Sen. Tim Kaine, Sen. John Warner and U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger.

Several of the elected officials, and representatives of the federal officials, address the group about important issues. The Legislative Reception provides the community an opportunity to create a more intimate relationship with the officials they elect, as well as provide the officials an opportunity to get to know their constituents from the Jewish community. 

Virginia Jewish Advocacy Day

The premiere JCRC event, Virginia Jewish Advocacy Day, is an opportunity to come together and advocate for our issues. Participants from Jewish communities all across the Commonwealth gather in Richmond to meet with elected officials and speak up on behalf of the issues on which we stand. These issues are best identified in our four pillars:

• Promoting religious freedom and the separation of church and state,

• Supporting a democratic, strong and peaceful Israel, as the homeland and nation-state of the Jewish people,

• The eradication of all forms of racism and anti-Semitism,

• The safety and well-being of Jewish agencies, organizations, and individuals in the Richmond community and environs. 

Virginia Jewish Advocacy Day is co-sponsored annually with Richmond Hadassah.