Voluntary association of attorneys, social scientists, academicians and others whose purpose is to represent the observant Jewish community on legal, legislative, and public-affairs matters. COLPA has represented, without fee, thousands of individuals and institutions in appearances before Federal and State courts and regulatory agencies throughout the United States. In dozens of cases and scores of amicus curiae briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, COLPA has advocated the rights and interests of individual observant Jews and the observant Jewish community as a whole.
