Wednesday, January 29, 7 am – 4 pm Sandler Family Campus to Richmond
Date with the State, also known as Virginia Jewish Advocacy Day, provides an opportunity for the statewide Jewish community to come together to raise awareness around topics of importance such as countering antisemitism, maintaining funding for Jewish institutions, and ensuring that the Virginia Israel Advisory Board continues to have the funding to help Israeli companies build and grow their operations in the Commonwealth providing tax revenue and jobs across the state, etc.
Multiple reasons exist to attend this important day in Richmond. Virginia Jewish Advocacy Day:
• Provides attendees the time and place to connect with their local legislators on issues affecting the Jewish community.
• Allows attendees – Jewish community members and allies – to make a visible impact in the state capitol.
• Provides Jewish community advocates from across the Commonwealth a forum to learn and share with one another over lunch.
• Educates and motivates on important issues facing the Jewish community and encourages grassroots advocacy.
• Provides a forum for Virginia’s highest elected officials to give remarks to Jewish community advocates, and for the officials to see the strength of the statewide Jewish community.
Join members of Jewish Tidewater to advocate for the community – even just by being there. Each person’s presence demonstrates the strength and significance of the community’s collective voice.
A bus leaves from the Sandler Family Campus at 7 am. $54 includes kosher lunch and helps defray the cost of transportation. For more information about how to join this year’s delegation or to register, visit JewishVA.org/DWTS or contact Julie Kievit, JCRC program coordinator, at jkievit@ujft.org.
Robin Mancoll is United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s chief program officer and Jewish Community Relations Council’s senior director.