Advocacy
We build relationships with elected officials to educate them on issues vital to the Jewish community and to champion important legislation. To ensure an informed electorate, we surface information about politicians, pending bills, and policy positions.
We are currently working on the following:
- We are monitoring hate crimes legislation that pertains to protections for the Jewish American community in Harrisburg.
- We are looking ahead to the May 20254 Pennsylvania primaries to determine which races to give our attention.
- We are organizing a series of community meetings to strengthen information sharing amongst our community and to better get to know key elected officials who represent us.
On an ongoing basis, we meet with local elected officials about the rising tide of antisemitism and what actions they can take to protect their Jewish constituents. When local elected officials undermine the well being of their Jewish constituents, we help them to understand the effects of their actions and are unafraid to hold them publicly accountable as appropriate.
Candidate evaluations
Beacon Coalition vets candidates for political office in three areas: combating antisemitism, upholding democracy, and championing pluralism.
Take a look at our candidate evaluations from the November 2024 election to see how we evaluated key races across Pennsylvania.
Candidate support
Our affiliated group, Beacon Coalition Political Act Fund, provides explicit support to politicians who share our values. In the November 2024 election cycle we supported both Democratic and Republican candidates.