National Conference on Soviet Jewry
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National Conference on Soviet Jewry, or NCSJ, is a US-Jewish lobbying group to: "to safeguard the individual and communal political rights of Jews living in the former Soviet Union and to secure their religious and political freedoms." Its institution coincided with the US-Israeli push for the USSR to open Jewish migration to Israel in the 1970s -- 1980s. [1]
"Look Who's Talking... to NCSJ"
- Mary Warlick, Director, Office of Russian Affairs, U.S. State Deptartment [2]
- Stephen Sestanovich, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
- Lynn Pascoe, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
- Steven Pifer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
- Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State and PNAC signatory
- Alexander Mashkevich, President, Euro-Asian Jewish Congress [3]
- Alexander Dukhovny, Chief Progressive Rabbi of Ukraine
- Yakov Dov Bleich, Chief Rabbi of Ukraine
- Vladimir Slutsker, Duma member and President, Russian Jewish Congress
- Edward O'Donnell, U.S. Special Envoy for Holocaust
- George Voinovich (Senate R-Ohio)
- Alcee Hastings (D-Florida), President, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
- Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Minority Whip
- Robert Wexler (D-Florida), Ranking Member, House International Relations Subcommittee on Europe
- Chris Smith (R-New Jersey), Chairman, U.S. Helsinki Commission
- Igor Branovan, President and Founder, Russian American Jews for Israel
- Carlos Pascual, Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia, Department of State
- Amir Shaviv, Assistant Executive Director for Special Operations, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- Daniel Fried, National Security Council
- Elizabeth Jones, Assistant Secretary of State [4]
Contact
- Website: www.ncsj.org
Notes
- ↑ 'About NCSJ', NCSJ website, accessed 27 March, 2009.
- ↑ 'Biography - Mary Warlick', NCSJ website, accessed 27 March, 2009.
- ↑ 'Events', EAJC website, 27 January, 2003. (Accessed 27 March, 2009)
- ↑ 'Look Who's Talking... to NCSJ', NCSJ website, accessed 27 March, 2009.