Jewish California

Jewish California (fromerly known as Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California or JPAC), is an American Jewish advocacy umbrella organization of "leading" Jewish community organizations across California, "the largest single-state coalition of Jewish organizations in the nation", founded in 1972 to advocate in Sacramento on behalf of the California Jewish community’s (1.2 million coreligionists) concerns and broadly shared values, articulated in its two pillars, fighting for "issues that support [California's] Jewish community" and that "directly further Jewish values". The JPAC‑to‑Jewish California name change, after more than 50 years under the original name, coincided with heightened public scrutiny of pro‑Israel lobbying groups such as AIPAC and with a controversy in which a California Faculty Association questionnaire grouped “AIPAC/JPAC” together with industries like oil and tobacco, although Jewish California’s own announcement did not cite this criticism as a reason for the rebrand.