[2] The NCJW focuses on expanding abortion access, securing federal judicial appointments, promoting voting integrity, and mobilizing Israeli feminist movements.
As this community of German Jews matured and stabilized, it faced the same challenge to gender role definitions that had accompanied the Jacksonian Democracy a half-century earlier."
The NCJW was part of the broader effort of middle-class and upper-class women to assist those less well off, working closely with the settlement movement epitomized by Jane Addams' Hull House in Chicago.
NCJW also began a campaign for social legislation to address low-income housing, child labor, public health, food and drug regulations, and civil rights.
World War II saw NCJW engage in rescuing Jewish children from Germany and working to reunite thousands of displaced persons with family members, as well as a broad range of other relief efforts.
[12] In 1993 the NCJW led a letter-writing campaign to have several racial slurs removed from the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, including the word "jew", which was listed as a verb with the definition "To bargain with - an offensive term".
[15][16] In 2021, the DC chapter of the Sunrise Movement called for the removal of the NCJW, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs from a voting rights coalition due to their Israeli ties and support for Zionism.
These interviews also include information about personal life events, episodes of discrimination against Jews, moving from Europe to America, and meeting Enrico Caruso, Robert Oppenheimer, Jonas Salk and other historical figures.