The Justice Ball recently celebrated its 22nd anniversary in LA! For tickets and information on JB22, please check out www.justiceball.org Bet Tzedek provides free legal services that address many of life's basic necessities.
The Justice Ball has evolved into one of Bet Tzedek’s primary annual fundraisers. Bet Tzedek actually means “The House of Justice” in Hebrew. Ensuring "equal justice for all" has been the rallying cry of Bet Tzedek since it was founded in 1974. The firm provides assistance in a number of areas including:
• consumer rights
• elder law
• housing
• public benefits
• worker's rights
The Justice Ball has evolved into one of Bet Tzedek’s primary annual fundraisers. Bet Tzedek actually means “The House of Justice” in Hebrew. Ensuring "equal justice for all" has been the rallying cry of Bet Tzedek since it was founded in 1974. The firm provides assistance in a number of areas including:
• consumer rights
• elder law
• housing
• public benefits
• worker's rights
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Welcome, Ms. Burgin!
We're excited to announce the election of a new Bet Tzedek - The House of Justice board member, Alisha Burgin! Ms. Burgin is deeply committed to pro bono work and an outspoken supporter of women of color in the legal field. She is a skilled litigator and a passionate advocate for inclusivity and diversity!
Doug Emhoff reflects on his path from Bet Tzedek to second gentleman
Emhoff said he's been 'been doing everything I can behind the scenes on the issue of antisemitism'
We're thrilled to announce upcoming dates for our FREE/virtual Legal Name & Gender Marker Change Clinic: June 10, June 30, and July 15! Join our virtual clinic where you will meet with volunteers to complete our intake questionnaire and verify information for your petition and fee waiver application, if needed. Following the clinic, we will prepare your petition and email it for you to print, sign, and file with the court.
Please note: we are only able to assist CA residents who are seeking recognition of a changed gender marker and/or who are seeking to change their legal name to conform to their gender identity.
Sign up at https://bit.ly/3mLlXTs.
📣 Justice Impacted Vaccination Day! Homeboy Industries will be offering FREE #COVID19 vaccines, care kits, diapers/wipes, HIV testing, and food boxes. Walk up or drive-thru this Saturday (5/22) from 9AM-3PM. Register online at https://bit.ly/3hH0jPX or call 888-702-9042.
We’re so excited to partner with legendary q***r bar Henrietta Hudson for this Instagram Live Conversation! Join us on Henrietta Hudson's account on 5/11 at 11:30AM PST to hear Bet Tzedek - The House of Justice’s Steven A. Friday discuss our Free/Virtual Legal Name and Gender Marker Change Clinic. They’ll also discuss services we offer if you’re facing job/housing discrimination, denial of insurance coverage for gender affirming medical care, and trans legal aid on a state and national level.
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Tonight Jews around the world celebrate Passover and tell the story of a people who moved from oppression to freedom. We remember that the struggle continues for all who are experiencing oppression and injustice today. Bet Tzedek - The House of Justice wishes all who observe a happy and meaningful Passover. #Passover2021
Diego Cartagena on LinkedIn: #Justice #legalaid
As I start my second year as President & CEO of Bet Tzedek Legal Services, I thought it appropriate to put pen to paper, and reflect on my first year in...
Since the day Bet Tzedek opened over 45 years ago, it has been proud and honored to serve to Los Angeles-area Holocaust survivors by helping address the legal issues impacting their health, safety, and well-being. In 2007, what started as a local volunteer effort has grown into the nationwide Holocaust Survivors Justice Network (HSJN) committed to ensuring survivors are able to live their lives with dignity. Truly unprecedented in scope and impact, HSJN has united social service agencies and pro bono law firms in cities around the country to provide Holocaust survivors with reparations claims assistance and other elder law services that are essential to survivors’ safety, independence, and quality of life. With funding from The JFNA Center on Aging and Trauma, a project of the Holocaust Survivor Initiative, Bet Tzedek is expanding the network to include advance planning and scam prevention services for Holocaust survivors and other older trauma survivors. #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay #HMD2021 #NeverForget
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“We learned that quiet isn’t always peace. And the norms and notions of what is just is, isn’t always justice.” - National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman
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Our $60,000 Giving Challenge has been extended until the 31st, and we’re getting close to hitting our target and unlocking these funds! Our staff continue to help clients whose lives have been turned upside down by the worsening COVID crisis. Please take a moment during this very different holiday season to make a gift that will release these funds so that we can double our ability to help people seeking justice. Double your impact and get us across the finish line!
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This year, please consider sponsoring a foster child or a family's needs. You can make all the difference! Your help is so vital to support these clients who desperately need a win this year. You can have a massive impact on their lives by simply sending gifts of new pajamas, new clothes or shoes, a pair of headphones for music, a grocery gift card for meals, or art supplies to provide some joy and creative outlets.
For gift donations please visit ttsu.me/2020kinshipcare. To give back monetarily, please visit https://www.bettzedek.org/donate/kinshipcare2020/
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It's National Philanthropy Day! THANK YOU to the many donors, foundations, and supporters who make our work possible. This year, your support allowed us to help Holocaust survivors, undocumented immigrant children, low wage workers, elders at risk of abuse, and small businesses struggling under COVID-19, to name just a few examples. In all, we have helped twice as many people as we did in 2019. Thank you for your support of our mission.
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We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She was always a passionate and dedicated voice for justice and equality who kept us looking towards the future with hope and resolve. May her memory be a blessing and a continued inspiration in our pursuit towards justice for all.
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Join us TODAY at 5PM for a roundtable discussion on the need for #SB1399! Workers, fashion industry leaders and policy experts will share knowledge on how California can be the ethical and sustainable capital of the US. Register at https://bit.ly/2Z1Fm7U and tune in to the livestream on UCLA Labor Center's page!
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Bet Tzedek is partnering with the Los Angeles Urban League and the NEW Women's Business Center on a 14-part Business Resiliency Workshop Series! Learn how to build a resilient mindset for your business, evaluate new opportunities, access capital, and more. Join us on Sept. 9 from 6-7:30PM for the start of Phase 1: Resiliency. Go to https://bit.ly/3jvcixr to register.
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Bet Tzedek is partnering with Los Angeles Unified School District Board Member Mónica García to provide a family preparedness presentation! This information is critical as families make alternate childcare arrangements as a result of #COVID19. Register here: https://bit.ly/3jsn07N
Bet Tzedek y la oficina de Mónica García van a brindar una presentación de preparación familiar. Esta información es fundamental ya que las familias estan haciendo arreglos alternativos para el cuidado de los niños por razon de COVID-19. Regístrese aquí: https://bit.ly/3jsn07N
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Garment workers in Los Angeles need your help! Call your state assemblymember to support #SB1399 to stop wage theft in the garment industry and hold fashion brands accountable. #GarmentWorkerProtectionAct #EssentialWorkers #OneLegalWage
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Bet Tzedek - The House of Justice recently joined an open letter with Public Rights Project and many other public interest legal organizations urging state bars to cancel bar examinations this year and award full diploma privilege to recent law school graduates! Both in-person and online exams exacerbate inequities affecting applicants of color, lower-income applicants, and applicants with disabilities, and COVID-19 has only made the need for licensed public interest lawyers greater.
Read and join the open letter here: bit.ly/SupportingDiplomaPrivilege
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CA Assembly Labor Committee votes on #SB1399 TODAY! Wage theft in LA’s garment industry is so bad that workers risk their health to stay at the few jobs paying minimum wage even if they are unsafe workplaces. CA must pass SB1399 so workers are paid #OneLegalWage industry wide! The people most impacted will be the workers making our masks who will finally be able to make what they deserve & hold brands accountable for wage theft in the industry.
Congratulations to Bet Tzedek - The House of Justice CEO, Diego Cartagena, for being honored by the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Los Angeles County (APABA) alongside a group of amazing 2020 Trailblazers! #BetTzedek #socialjustice #rockstars
Many thanks to APABA's esteemed 2020 Trailblazer Award recipients for a great virtual panel and discussion tonight about dismantling structural racism and implicit bias. Thanks also to all 14 of our co-sponsoring organizations for their support which resulted in a record of 200+ individuals in attendance: Asian Pacific American Women Lawyers Alliance, Italian American Lawyers Association Los Angeles, Japanese American Bar Association, The John M. Langston Bar Association, Korean American Bar Association of Southern California, Latina Lawyers Bar Association, Mexican American Bar Association, Multicultural Bar Alliance, Philippine American Bar Association, South Asian Bar Association of Southern California, Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association, Taiwanese American Lawyers Association, Thai American Bar Association - TABA, Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles.
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ICYMI: Bet Tzedek - The House of Justice's Matt DeCarolis joined CAST Los Angeles on MORE Radio Network to discuss #AB629, our human trafficking bill which authorizes the California Victim Compensation Board to pay survivors for lost income they earned while being trafficked! 👏🏼 #AB629ForSurvivors #HumanTrafficking bit.ly/2ZGXVxQ
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Awesome Teen Vogue article on #SB1399!
"Popular fast fashion names like Fashion Nova and Forever 21 have all come under scrutiny for claiming to support movements like Black Lives Matter, all the while being accused of underpaying their garment workers. California's Garment Worker Protection Act hopes to ensure fair pay for California garment workers."
"The Garment Worker Protection Act was authored by Californian Senator Maria Elena Durazo and sponsored by Garment Worker Center, Bet Tzedek - The House of Justice, the California Labor Federation, and Western Center on Law & Poverty. 'I am grateful to my Senate colleagues for approving the Garment Worker Protection Act of 2020,' Durazo said, per Apparel News. 'It is time that we demand better working conditions for women and just hourly pay for garment workers, who, when paid by the piece, earn on average $5.15 per hour.'"
https://bit.ly/2Ztf264
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Another great article from the Los Angeles Times highlighting the problems with PACE, this time featuring Public Counsell clients. PACE loans devastate families and communities. It's time for local officials to make things right for people tricked into loans they can’t afford, and to prevent more bad loans.
https://lat.ms/3ignIoV
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Join Bet Tzedek - The House of Justice TODAY on CA Domestic Workers Coalition's Facebook for a live Know Your Rights presentation to address the concerns of domestic workers and caregivers as they return to work and provide access to legal support! The information will be presented at 11AM in English and at 2PM in Spanish.
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Our bill, #SB1399 - Garment Worker Protection Act, passed the Senate today 25-11! THANK YOU to the brave garment workers; author Maria Elena Durazo, co-sponsors Garment Worker Center, California Labor Federation, Western Center on Law & Poverty; Senate Pro Tem Toni G. Atkins; and California Legislative Women's Caucus. Onward to the Assembly! #OneLegalWage
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Economic Impact Payments aka “stimulus checks” belong to their recipients, not nursing homes or care facilities or other businesses. Don’t believe those who demand you turn over your Economic Impact Payment aka “stimulus checks” to them because you receive assistance from a state or federal program like Medicare or Medicaid. #IRS urges you to warn your loved ones: https://go.usa.gov/xwPFw #COVIDreliefIRS
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Garment workers in Los Angeles need your help! Call your state legislator to support #SB1399 to stop wage theft in the garment industry and hold fashion brands accountable. #GarmentWorkerProtectionAct #EssentialWorkers #OneLegalWage
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Thanks to Chair Senator Anthony Portantino, 25th Districtino and Sens. Steve Bradford, Jerry Hill, Connie M. Leyva, and Bob Wieckowski for your support of #SB1399.
Bet Tzedek - The House of Justice joins Garment Worker Center, California Labor Federation, and Western Center on Law & Poverty in calling on Sen. Toni G. Atkins and the California State Senate to PASS the Garment Worker Protection Act. The bill eliminates the piece rate system—the primary driver of wage theft in the garment industry—in favor of #OneLegalWage. SB 1399 protects garment workers who are sewing critical #PPE in the fight against #COVID19, ensures they are paid a fair wage for their work, and empowers workers to invest in their families and communities.
Special thanks to Maria Elena Durazo for your inspiring leadership!
#PayUp
#CalLeg
Supreme Court Delivers Major Victory To LGBTQ Employees
The Supreme Court says the federal ban on discrimination "based on s*x" also applies to gay, le***an, and transgender employees.
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We're hiring! Bet Tzedek - The House of Justice is looking for an attorney to join us in our effort to combat elder abuse as an Equal Justice Works Elder Justice Fellow. Details below!
Elder Justice Intervention: https://bit.ly/3fjR6bI
Homeowner Protection: https://bit.ly/3hsKjOE
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A new report by UCLA Labor Center offers a blueprint for #COVID19 recovery through investing in the public sector to promote economic opportunities for Black workers and communities: bit.ly/BlackWorkersReport
#ReimaginedRecovery #Equity4BlackWorkers
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on small businesses will be significant. Bet Tzedek - The House of Justice is here to help. Our updated FAQ on reopening procedures and compliance can be found on our resources page: https://bit.ly/2B2jhgh
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Join Bet Tzedek - The House of Justice for a Virtual Elder Abuse Awareness Forum on Monday, June 15th. Breakout topics include elder abuse prevention, COVID-19 scams, and more. Register here by June 14th: https://bit.ly/3746fel
The Critical Role of Workers in Saving Lives & Rebuilding Our Devastated Economy
The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative (UCLA LPPI) and SEIU California hosted a webinar on the outsized role of workers in COVID-19 relief and recove...
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Highlights from Justice Ball XVII! Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen! Enjoy.
Time Lapse video over 2 days at The Book Bindery. As it turns out, the GoPro needs a little more battery life than we calculated. Enjoy!
In case you missed it last year, here's a look back at "Welcome to Justiceville."
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Justice Ball XIII with DJ AM!!
Massive summertime party, at Poppy featuring top-tier talent, open bars, bottle service, and all night dancing--all to raise money and awareness for the work Bet Tzedek does to provided free legal services to those who need it most.
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