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   BULLETIN
 Volume 2, Issue 1
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
12 Adar, 5775
NCSEJ at AIPAC's annual Policy Conference
NCSEJ Executive Director Mark Levin and American Foreign Policy Council Vice President Ilan Berman  
March 1   

  

NCSEJ Executive Director Mark Levin spoke on a panel about Russia's paradoxical approach to the Middle East at AIPAC Policy Conference 2015. The AIPAC policy conference is the largest annual gathering of America's pro-Israel community, with over 16,000 participants this year.
 
Meeting with

Lithuanian Foreign Minister
Daniel Mariaschin, Linas Linkevicius, and NCSEJ Executive Director Mark Levin 
February 24

NCSEJ and B'nai B'rith International co-hosted a meeting with Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius of Lithuania.
 
Issues discussed included the Ukraine crisis, property restitution, a recent neo-Nazi march in Kaunas, and UN resolutions on the Middle East. 
NCSEJ at annual Conference of Presidents mission in Israel
NCSEJ Board Chairman Stephen Greenberg, with Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel Avigdor Liberman
February 15   

  
NC SEJ leaders  participat ed in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations' annual mission .
Meetings included: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, and opposition leaders Tzipi Livni and Isaac Herzog. Issues discussed included Iran, ISIS, and the upcoming Israeli elections. 
Me eting with Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Feldman  
Eduard Dolinsky, NCSEJ Deputy Director Lesley Weiss, Oleksandr Feldman, Ira Forman, Oleksandr Feldman, Jr., Maxim Vodka, and Stacy Davis 
February 10

 

NCSEJ organized a series of meetings and accompanied Ukrainian Jewish Committee (UJC) President Oleksandr Feldman and UJC Executive Director Eduard Dolinsky during their visit to Washington.

 

Issues discussed included the Ukraine crisis, the humanitarian needs of the Ukrainian Jewish community, and U.S.-Ukraine relations. 
Interview with Ukraine MP Alexey Goncharenko
Ukraine MP Alexey Goncharenko and NCSEJ Executive Director Mark Levin 
February 6

This interview is the first in a new series on current issues impacting the Eurasian region, part of NCSEJ's ongoing work to report on and analyze events that affect the well-being of Jews and Jewish communities.
 
This first interview was conducted by NCSEJ Executive Director Mark Levin in Washington with Alexey Goncharenko, 34, a newly- elected member from Odessa to the Verkhovna Rada. Read the full interview. 
 

NCSEJ fighting anti-Semitism          
NCSEJ Executive Director Mark Levin (photo by Henley Moore/Star Democrat)
February 4

NCSEJ Executive Director spoke  in a lecture series "the Rise in Anti-Semitism and our Response" at Temple B'nai Israel in Easton, Maryland. 
 
Mark Levin addressed anti-Semitism in eastern and western Europe, highlighted the importance of fighting anti-Semitism in all its forms not only for Jewish communities, but for everyone.  Read more .   

NCSEJ meets with Georgian Foreign Minister
NCSEJ leaders and member agency representatives with Georgian FM Tamar Beruchashvili, fourth from right
February 3

NCSEJ  hosted a meeting with Georgian Foreign Minister Tamar Beruchashvili, during her first working visit to the United States. Participants included NCSEJ member agencies, members of the NCSEJ Board of Governors, and representatives from the Embassy of Georgia.
 
Minister Beruchashvili gave an overview of Georgia's foreign and domestic policy priorities. She emphasized Georgia's Western-oriented foreign policy and spoke about the progress Georgia has achieved in its pursuit toward integration into the European Union and NATO. Read more. 
 

70th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation
NCSEJ Deputy Director Lesley Weiss, Nicholas Dean, Aviva Sufian, Israel Albeiter, David Saperstein and Irene Weiss
January 26 

NCSEJ  Deputy Director Lesley Weiss joined her mother Irene Fogel Weiss, an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor in Poland to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Irene Weiss was a member of the official U.S. Presidential delegation to the anniversary ceremony.

 

Lesley's letter and photos from Auschwitz and links to articles published in the Guardian and Haaretz about Irene's personal journey of survival can be seen here.
President of the Russian Jewish Congress Visit
President of the Russian Jewish Congress Yuri Kanner
January 7   

NCSEJ organized a series of meetings and accompanied the President of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) Yuri Kanner during his visit to Washington. 

 

Issues discussed included current developments in the Russian Jewish community, as well as the general situation in Russia and the former Soviet Union region. 

  


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