Board of Governors Meeting - 06.12.2007

Summary:

		Chairman Edward B. Robin opened the June 12, 2007 NCSJ Spring  Board of Governors meeting in Washington, D.C., welcoming the Board members, ambassadors and embassy representatives and other guests.
		Founding NCSJ Executive Director Jerry Goodman (left) updated the Board and guests on the Soviet Jewry Archives Project, which seeks to amass a record of the movement's history in the United States.  Markian Bilynskyj, Vice President and Director of Field Operations in Ukraine for the U.S.- Ukraine Foundation, spoke about Ukraine's recent political crisis and its implications for the future.
		NCSJ Director of Community Services and Cultural Affairs Lesley Weiss, and B'nai B'rith International Executive Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin discussed their work as official U.S. NGO advisors to the recent OSCE conference in Bucharest, Romania, on combating intolerance, where NCSJ presented an intervention on anti-Semitism.
		Rebecca Lieberman, of the Nadav Foundation, discussed activities planned around this year's 40th anniversary of the beginning of activities supporting the Soviet Jewry Movement.
		President Lesley Israel (left) and NCSJ Chairman Edward B. Robin talked about NCSJ's recent Leadership Mission to Russia, Ukraine and the opening of a new synagogue in Tallinn, Estonia.
		Ambassador James F. Collins, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Diplomat in Residence briefed meeting participants on the current political situation in the former Soviet Union.
		Chief Rabbi of Moscow Pinchas Goldschmidt (far right) praised NCSJ and told the assembled crowd that NCSJ's mission is now more vital than ever. pictured with (l.-r.) NCSJ Chairman Ed Robin, Amb. Jim Collins, Amb. Yashar Aliyev (Azerbaijan) and Executive Director Mark Levin.
		Presenting the meeting's keynote speech, Michele L. Raffino, the  U.S. National Security Council Director for Russian Affairs discussed the U.S.-Russia bilateral relationship. (l.-r.) NCSJ Executive Director Mark Levin, Raffino, President Lesley Israel and Chairman Ed Robin.

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For more information, see NCSJ's July 2007 NewsWatch (.pdf) newsletter.

All photos this page by Ron Sachs/CNP.

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