National Council of Jewish Women. Washington, D.C., Office. collectionmanuscriptmixed material eng Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, speeches, testimony, legislation, reports, notes, newsletters, press releases, newspaper clippings, photographs, digital files including video advertisements and programs, and other records primarily reflecting the organization's lobbying activities during the tenures of Olya Margolin, Washington, D.C., representative from 1944 to 1978, and later, of Sammie Moshenberg and Jody Rabhan, directors of Washington Operations. Topics include the aged, child care and child welfare, commerce, consumer education, disability, domestic violence, employment, economic assistance to foreign countries, financial equity, food and nutrition, gender-based discrimination, health care and national health insurance, housing, immigration, Israel, Jewish life and culture, juvenile delinquency, LGBTQ+ rights, religious liberty, reproductive rights, separation of church and state, social welfare, voting rights, welfare reform, and women's rights. Special concerns emerged in each decade, including nuclear warfare, European refugees, postwar price controls, and the establishment of the United Nations during the 1940s; the NCJW's Freedom Campaign against McCarthyism in the 1950s; civil rights and sex discrimination in the 1960s; and abortion, human rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and Soviet Jewry in the 1970s. Includes material on the Washington Institute on Public Affairs and the Joint Program Institute (both founded by a subcommittee of the Washington, D.C., Office), on activities of various local and state NCJW sections, and on the Women's Joint Congressional Committee and Women in Community Service (U.S.), two organizations that were founded in part by the National Council of Jewish Women. Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or digital ID number, National Council of Jewish Women, Washington, D.C., Office Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. National Council of Jewish Women. Washington, D.C., Office, Available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division. National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. Posters Established in 1944 as a liaison office between the Jewish feminist civil rights organization National Council of Jewish Women and the U.S. Congress and government agencies. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at Margolin, Olya, 1908-1990. McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957. Moshenberg, Sammie. Rabhan, Jody, 1969- United States. Congress. National Council of Jewish Women. United Nations. Women in Community Service (U.S.) Women's Joint Congressional Committee. Joint Program Institute. Washington Institute on Public Affairs. Abortion. Older people. Anti-communist movements--United States. Child care. Child welfare. Church and state. Civil rights. Commerce. Consumer education. Disabilities. Economic assistance. Education. Emigration and immigration. Equal rights amendments. Family violence. Freedom of religion. Food. Housing. Human rights. Jewish women--United States--Societies and clubs. Jews--Social life and customs. Jews--Soviet Union. Judges--Selection and appointment. Juvenile delinquency. LGBTQ+ people. Lobbying--United States. Medical care. National health insurance. Nuclear warfare. Nutrition. Pay equity. Price regulation. Public welfare. Racial justice. Reproductive rights. Sex discrimination. Social justice. Social problems. Suffrage. Women. Women--Employment. Women--United States--Societies and clubs. Women's rights. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees. Israel. United States--Social conditions. United States--Social policy. Visual materials from the National Council of Jewish Women, Washington, D.C., Office, records National Council of Jewish Women records Women in Community Service records Women's Joint Congressional Committee records http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009005.3 Open to research; other restrictions apply. Contact the Manuscript Reading Room for further information. Digital files require advance notice for retrieval. Request in Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.