WASHINGTON (JTA) — Five liberal Jewish groups have united in a get out the vote effort.
Define America 2010 comprises groups based in five centers: the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs in Chicago; Jewish Community Action in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.; Jewish Funds for Justice in New York; Jews United for Justice in Washington, D.C.; and the Progressive Jewish Alliance in California.
"We are alarmed by the recent escalation of Islamophobia, racism and anti-immigrant rhetoric," Jane Ramsey, who directs the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, said in a statement. "This election is an opportunity — an obligation — for voters to define the type of America they want."
The groups are members of a progressive Jewish coordinating umbrella, the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable, and will be working through One Nation Working Together, a liberal alliance that recently staged a mass rally on Washington’s National Mall.
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