Biography - Lesley Weiss
Ron Sachs/CNPLesley Weiss is Director of Community Services and Cultural Affairs for NCSJ. She travels frequently to the former Soviet Union, where she coordinates democracy initiatives, community education and outreach efforts and promotes partnerships between American Jewish communities and communities in the region.
Prior to joining NCSJ, Lesley was the Associate Director of the Washington, DC, Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League. She has previously served as Assistant Director of the New England Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League; Assistant to the International Director, Hillel: Foundation for Jewish Campus Life; and Assistant Director of the Syracuse Jewish Federation.
Lesley has extensive experience in program development and fundraising, community relations, legislative outreach, hate crimes training, combating anti-Semitism, and Holocaust education. Lesley served in 2005 as a Public Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance in Cordoba, Spain, and in 2007, to the follow-up Conference on Combating Discrimination and Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding in Bucharest, Romania.
Lesley Weiss is a graduate of the Baltimore Institute for Jewish Communal Service (now the Darrell D. Friedman Institute). She received a B.A. in Jewish Studies from American University, a Master’s Degree in social work from the University of Maryland School of Social Work and a Master’s Degree in modern Jewish history from the Baltimore Hebrew University.
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- Russia, Ukraine & Estonia 2007 (.pdf 277 K)
- UJF in Russia & Ukraine 2004 (.pdf 455 K)
- Republic of Georgia 2003 (.pdf 350 K)
- Azerbaijan 2003 (.pdf 640 K)
- Baltics 2002
- Russia 2002
- Ukraine 2000
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- Washington-Moscow Student Leadership Program
- KehillaWatch: February 2003 (.pdf 200 K)
- KOLOT "Russia Project Takes Root"
- KOLOT: Fighting Domestic Violence (.pdf 360k)
- Texas-Russia Leadership and Advocacy Program
- Dnepropetrovsk-Boston Student Leadership Program (.pdf 430k)
...with Latvian President Toomas Ilves (center) and B'nai B'rith International leaders
...with Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Envoy on Anti-Semitism Olexander Gorin and Jewish community leaders
...with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev (center) and Jewish leaders
...with Israeli MK and refusenik Yuli Edelstein
... with Ukraine government leaders and Coalition for a Secure and Democratic Ukraine members
...at the 2007 OSCE Conference in Bucharest, Romania with U.S. Delegation Co-Chair Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)
...with Russian Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov (second from right) at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia
...leading the March 2008 Washington- Moscow Student Leadership Program
...at the 2006 OSCE Human Dimensions Implementation Meeting in Warsaw
...at a 2005 NCSJ and Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations leadership meeting with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
...at the 2005 OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance in Cordoba, Spain, serving as an advisor to the U.S. Delegation, led by Gov. George Pataki (second from left)
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... with Belarusian Amb. Mikhail Khvostov at an NCSJ reception in the U.S. Capitol building
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... with (l.-r.) NCSJ Executive Director Mark Levin, Representative Robert Wexler (D-FL), Rabbi Levi Shemtov of American Friends of Lubavitch
... with U.S. Ambassador Ross Wilson in Baku, Azerbaijan
... with Dr. Judith Wolf and Arkady Suharenko, Chairman of the Latvian Jewish Community, in Riga
Lesley Weiss (above, left) in Voronezh, Russia with activists in the Kolot domestic violence awareness project
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...leading a Washington briefing on domestic violence in Russia
...at the Conference on Euro- Integration at the National Mining University in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
...meeting with BBI Executive Vice-President Dan Mariaschin, Georgian PM Zurab Noghaideli, and Georgian Amb. Levan Mikheladze
...at Spaso House in Moscow, with (l.-r.): Rina Edelstein, former NCSJ President Dr. Joel Schindler, U.S. Ambassador Alexander Vershbow and Pittsburgh Jewish Community leaders
... at the Vilnius Holocaust Education Conference with (l.-r.) Emanuel Zingeris, Director of the Vilnius Gaon Jewish Museum; NCSJ Vice-President Dr. Judith Wolf; Daniel Mariaschin, B'nai B'rith International Executive Vice President
... with U.S. Ambassador Richard Monroe Miles (at left) and Howard Rieger, President of United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh, in Tbilisi, Georgia
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