Jewish Community Relations Council

The Jewish Community Relations Council is the public affairs department of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation and represents the Jewish communities of Mahoning and Trumbull Counties in Ohio and Mercer and Lawrence Counties in Pennsylvania. Its mandate is to protect, preserve, and promote a just, democratic, and pluralistic American society, and to safeguard the rights of Jews here, in Israel, and around the world. JCRC has a deep commitment to combating antisemitism and discrimination, to the support and advocacy on behalf of the State of Israel, and to strengthening the Jewish community relationship with the general community. Additional priorities on the JCRC agenda include clarifying church-state issues, helping to determine the Jewish community's positions on critical public policy issues, promoting Holocaust education and commemoration, and playing a lead role in social action programming.