New Jewish Agenda Records

The New Jewish Agenda Organizing Committee was founded at a meeting at the home of Gerry Serotta in 1979. The organization was formally established at a founding conference of over 700 progressive Jews in Washington D.C. in December 1980. The organization was made up of Jews from a variety of religious and secular backgrounds committed to fostering a progressive voice in the organized Jewish community. Many founding members were veterans of the Jewish student movement, the Breira organization, the Havurah movement, Chicago's Chutzpah, Seattle's Kadima and Boston's Committee to Challenge Anti-semitism. Its official platform was adopted on November 28, 1982 at a delegates conference in New York City. The platform called for a support network of Jewish communal life in the United States; a commitment to feminism, including support of women in the workforce and reproductive rights; equal rights for gays and lesbians; support for Jews with disabilities; fighting against anti-Semitism and racism; support of the labor movement, affirmative action, nuclear disarmament, and civil liberties; advocating for renewable energy sources; and the building of relations between Jews in the United States and the international Jewish community. NJA dissolved in 1992.