Who We Are
Northern New Jersey JVP (NNJ JVP) is a pod/chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, a national, grassroots organization inspired by Jewish tradition to work for a just and lasting peace according to principles of human rights, equality, and international law for all the people of Israel and Palestine.
The JVP family of organizations has restructured. JVP Action, our 501c4 organization, is now doing business as JVP. JVP Lab, our 501c3 organization, continues separately and remains focused on our nonpartisan educational and cultural work. Learn more at jvp.org/jvporgs.
From Our Blog
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To the Jewish Community of Northern New Jersey
An Open Letter to the Jewish Community of Northern New Jersey From Jewish Voice for Peace of Northern New Jersey Massive demonstrations have been taking place in Israel over the future of its judiciary amid rising authoritarianism. Democratic activism is most welcome, but overwhelmingly the protests do not focus on the more than half-century occupation……
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Gaza Children’s Drawings Featured in Art Exhibit
Empathy is a wave that need never be stopped. If our children can catch this wave, from the ocean of tears that have been shed by Palestinian children, they might have a future in a more stable and saner world. —Alice Walker, 2012,introduction to exhibit catalogue,A Child’s View from Gaza Montclair, N.J., April 16: A……
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Why What Happens in Israel/Palestine Matters to U.S. Citizens
As the newly elected far-right-wing Israeli government tightens its noose around Palestinians in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, so too does the noose tighten around U.S. citizens and organizations who dare to criticize Israeli apartheid, occupation, and war crimes. State after state in the United States has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition……
Upcoming Events
Nov 2026
Monthly Organizing Meeting—October/November 2026 – 11/08/2026 at 3:30 pm - 5:30 pmJVP NNJ Book Club: Paradiso 17 – 11/10/2026 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Weaponizing Water to Erase Palestine – 11/15/2026 at 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Dec 2026
The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them – 12/03/2026 at 12:15 pm - 1:15 pmThe Jewish Labor Bund and Its Legacy: A Conversation with Molly Crabapple – 12/13/2026 at 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Feb 2027
Discriminating against Dissent: The Weaponization of Civil Rights Law to Repress Campus Speech on Palestine – 02/09/2027 at 12:15 pm - 1:15 pmApr 2027
The Othered Woman: How White Feminism Harms Muslim Women – 04/13/2027 at 12:15 pm - 1:15 pmVoices from the Holy Land Film Salon
Weaponizing Water to Erase Palestine
Sunday, November 15th, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
Water is life—and Israel’s systematic theft, restriction, and destruction of Palestinian water resources is extinguishing both daily survival and an entire way of life. While Israeli settlers building ‘Eretz Israel’ consume over 350 liters of water per person daily, West Bank Palestinians survive on a fraction of that. In the Gaza Strip, where the population has only a few liters of clean water per capita per day, Israel’s deliberate deprivation of water has triggered a severe health crisis and been denounced as a genocidal act. Our panel will discuss Israel’s use of water as a weapon of ethnic cleansing and genocide, and how we can respond.
For information and registration, go to this link.
