Rabbi Schulweis is the founding chairman of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, an organization that identifies and offers grants to those non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews threatened by the agents of Nazi savagery.

In 2004, after the revelation of the slaughter and unrest in Darfur, Sudan, he founded Jewish World Watch, a synagogue-based organization dedicated to raising both awareness and funds to protest the first genocide of the 21st Century, and bring vital assistance to the victims of its unrest.

Rabbi Schulweis is the author of Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion, Evil and the Morality of God, For Those Who Can’t Believe, Finding Each Other in Judaism, In God’s Mirror, and most recently Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey. An editor and contributor to a number of magazines, Rabbi Schulweis is the spiritual leader of Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California.

Janice retired from the active practice of law to establish Jewish World Watch which she jointly founded with Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis to fight against the genocide in Darfur and against other global human rights abuses. 

Janice received her BA degree from UCLA (1973), and an MSW (USC, 1975) and a Masters of Jewish Communal Services (Hebrew Union College, 1975).  After several years in the 1970’s of leading LA’s Soviet Jewry mobilizing effort and traveling to the former Soviet Union in her capacity as the Director of the Commission on Soviet Jewry for the Los Angeles Jewish Federation, Janice received her JD from UCLA in 1982. Janice practiced environmental real estate law for the firm of Reznik & Reznik, which eventually merged with the statewide firm of Jeffer, Mangels, Butler and Marmaro.  There she chaired the environmental practice group and remained a partner until her retirement from the active practice of law.   During those years in practice, Janice was President of California Women Lawyers, the California Women’s Bar, a founder and President of California Women’s Law Center, a public interest organization advocating for the rights of women and girls, a trustee of the California State Bar’s Trust Fund, and a trustee of the LA County Bar.

Currently, Janice serves as a County Commissioner, as a member of the Economy and Efficiency Commission; formerly, Janice served as President of LA County’s Judicial Procedures Commission.  In addition to the various legal related volunteer positions held by Janice over the years, she has served in a variety of Jewish community leadership roles.  Among the Boards on which she has served are: Los Angeles Hebrew High School, Valley Beth Shalom (VBS), Los Angeles Hillel Council, UCLA Hillel, and the Jewish Federation Council.  Janice is a graduate of the first Wexner Heritage Foundation Leadership Program in Los Angeles and served as Chair of the Pluralism and Religious Diversity in Israel Committee of the Jewish Federation. 

Janice considers her 37 year marriage to Ben and their three children, Yoni, Devi and Sami, her greatest achievements!