Jewish Federation of Cleveland Community Relations Committee

The Community Relations Committee works to strengthen Cleveland’s Jewish community through strategic engagement with diverse religious, cultural, and civic groups. By supporting dialogue and collaborative partnerships, CRC promotes shared values, addresses issues like antisemitism and equity, and fosters inclusive community development both locally and globally.

Daniel Pearlman, Director, Community Relations

Recommends and implements the Federation’s public affairs policy and works to build a more just society through advocacy, volunteer and community building initiatives specifically:

  • CRC’s subcommittees focus on three areas of key engagement:
    • Interfaith subcommittee builds and deepens strategic partnerships outside the Jewish community, specifically with our region’s diverse faith groups.
    • Intergroup subcommittee fosters partnerships outside the Jewish community, specifically with our regions cultural, ethnic, and minority groups.
    • Intragroup subcommittee strengthens unity between diverse segments of our Cleveland Jewish community, promoting civil discourse to help us better understand and respect multiple points of view.
  • Convenes public meetings and organizes campaigns of public education to focus community attention on issues and causes, including but not limited to promoting equal opportunity, social justice, and Israel advocacy.
  • Cultivate working relationships with non-Jewish, civic, and cross-sectional groups to strengthen community bonds and shared goals.
  • Responds to CRC member organization-identified needs which strengthen their individual and collaborative capacity to advance a unified public affairs agenda.
  • Combats antisemitism and hate by working with partners throughout Greater Cleveland to ensure that discrimination has no place in the community.
  • CRC Annual Meeting and Sidney Z. Vincent Memorial Lecture highlights issues of broad public interest such as education equity, women in STEM, shared society efforts in Israel, and the fight against antisemitism.