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NCSJ Honors EAJC President Alexander Machkevitch

 

NCSJ Board of Governors meets June 17, 2008

Russia charges gang with race murders
Russia jails cemetery vandals
U.S. will hear Chabad-Russia case
Russia's ambassador bids farewell
Jun. 11 2008: NCSJ Executive Director Mark Levin bid farewell to Amb. Yuri Ushakov at the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

U.S. presses Armenia on democracy
Bobruisk Jews celebrate 500 years
Tajikistan's shul torn down
Litvak Jews: indict hate speech

Plaque vandalized in Lviv
Ukraine pol's virulent anti-Semitism
Ukraine MPs to visit Israel
Ukraine cites Jews for top honor
Ukraine Jews reject Babi Yar transfer

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Jun. 16, 2008: (l.-r.) Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) with NCSJ Executive Committee member Herbert Seif and Chairman Ed Robin (photo: Chris Kleponis)Jun. 17, 2008: (l.-r.) Alexander Machkevitch, Chief Rabbi of Kazakhstan Yeshaya Cohen, Ambassador of Kazakhstan Amb. Erlan Idrissov, Azerbaijan Amb. Yashar Aliyev (Photo by Ron Sachs/CNP)

 

Jun. 16, 2008: (l.-r.) NCSJ Program Chair Richard Stone, Chairman Ed Robin, honoree Alexander Machkevitch, Executive Director Mark Levin and President Lesley Israel (photo: Chris Kleponis)Jun. 17, 2008: U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Joseph Burns (Photo by Ron Sachs/CNP)

     
     


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FSU Jewish Organizations: Updates

FSU counselors at U.S. summer camps
WUPJ hosts FSU shul leaders in Israel
U.S. students help Belarus cemetery
Russian Jews meet in Israel

 


Analysis and Opinion

NY Times on Russia/Georgia
Russia eyes Mideast role; Israel says no
  See also: Russia and the Mid-East
NY Times: Russia's religious orthodoxy
U.S. campaign advisors on Russia

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NCSJ In the News

Seeking Lithuanian restitution
NCSJ Honors Machkevitch
NCSJ in Moldova, Belarus
NCSJ student mission to Moscow

 


U.S.-Russian Relations

Bush, Putin meet in Sochi
U.S.-Russia strategy declaration
U.S. Will Work With Medvedev  
U.S., Russian Ambassadors' Joint Op-Ed

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Focus on Jackson-Vanik

U.S. Treas. Sec. Paulson on Russia, WTO
Lautenberg Renews Amendment

 


Focus on Anti-Semitism

ADL Urges Govts. to Combat Anti-Semitism
Amb. Burns on Anti-Semitism, NGOs

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Resources

 


NCSJ Archives (1998-2001)
History of Soviet Jewry (March 1999)
Russian Federal Law on Religion (1997)
Listen to Moscow Synagogue Choir
Maps (World, CIS)


U.S. Commission on International 
Religious Freedom Report

FreedomHouse World Survey 
U.S. Immigration Information (HIAS)
UJC's National Funding Councils


State Department Documents:

 


Int'l Religious Freedom Report
U.S. on Human Rights Abroad
Human Rights Report 
U.S. Assistance to FSU (FY 2007)
Int'l Affairs (Function 150) Budget

 


Russian and U.S. students meeting in Moscow
Lviv, July 2004: NCSJ President Joel Schindler at Janowska memorial

LOOK WHO'S TALKING... TO NCSJ

Mary Warlick, Director, Office of Russian Affairs, U.S. State Deptartment (Ray Gerard photo)Amb. Stephen Sestanovich, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations (Ray Gerard photo)Ambassador Lynn Pascoe, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (Ron Sachs photo)Ambassador Steven Pifer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (Ron Sachs photo)Under Secretary of State Paula J. Dobriansky
Alexander Mashkevich, President, Euro-Asian Jewish CongressRabbi Alexander Dukhovny, Chief Progressive Rabbi of Ukraine (Arnie Sachs photo)Rabbi Yakov Dov Bleich, Chief Rabbi of Ukraine (Ron Sachs photo)Tom Graham, Special Asst. to the President and Sr. Director for Russian Affairs, National Security CouncilAmbassador Edward O'Donnell, U.S. Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues
Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio)Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Florida), President, OSCE Parliamentary AssemblyRep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Minority Whip (Arnie Sachs photo)Representative Robert Wexler (D-Florida), Ranking Member, House International Relations Subcommittee on Europe (Ron Sachs photo)Rep. Chris Smith (R-New Jersey), Chairman, U.S. Helsinki Commission
Dr. Igor Branovan, President and Founder, Russian American Jews for Israel (Ray Gerard photo)Amb. Carlos Pascual, Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia, Department of State (Arnie Sachs photo)Amir Shaviv, Assistant Executive Director for Special Operations, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Ron Sachs photo)Assistant Secretary of State A. Elizabeth JonesAmb. Daniel Fried, National Security Council

 

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