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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JVP-NNJ Applauds the State’s 2 Senators’ Votes to Try to Stop Bombs and Armored Bulldozers for Israel
Senators Cory Booker and Andy Kim voted ‘Yes’ on two Senate Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs). Neither resolution passed, but support for the JRDs has been rapidly growing. S.J. Res 138 would have blocked the sale to Israel of 12,000 BLU-110A/B general purpose, 1,000-pound bomb bodies. These bombs are high-impact munitions used in airstrikes, including……
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JVP Calls out Senator Booker
On Thursday, October 16, we in Jewish Voice for Peace of Northern New Jersey brought roughly 45 Jews and their allies together to occupy the lobby of One Gateway Plaza, the building in Newark, NJ where Senator Cory Booker’s office is located, for over an hour to call out Senator Booker for his consistent funding……
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Justice Department Gets It Wrong
The Justice Department has filed an outrageous and dangerous civil complaint against pro-Palestinian protesters in New Jersey as the latest step in the Trump administration’s continuing effort to weaponize charges of antisemitism to shut down free speech. This time, the corrupt Trump Justice Department has invoked a law primarily used to protect abortion clinics in……
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.
