NCSJ - 09.23.2008

Ukraine President Gives Medal to NCSJ's Levin

Levin receives "Order of Merit"

CONTACT: Lesley Weiss, NCSJ
(202) 898-2500; lweiss@ncsj.org



NEW YORK CITY - In a ceremony today, NCSJ Executive Director Mark B. Levin, received the Order of Merit citation from The Honorable Victor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine.

The Order of Merit recognizes citizens of foreign countries for their significant personal contribution to the cause of strengthening the prestige of Ukraine in the world and the promotion of its historic and contemporary achievements.

Over the past several years, Mark Levin has led NCSJ's successful diplomatic efforts with President Yushchenko's government to establish key policies to protect the religious and political freedoms of Ukraine's half-million Jewish citizens.

NCSJ's Executive Director since 1992, Mark is one of the organized Jewish community's leading experts on national and international political and legislative issues, and has led the community in supporting financial and technical assistance to the former Soviet Union.

NCSJ: Advocates on Behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia, founded in 1971, represents the organized American Jewish community in monitoring and advocating on behalf of the estimated 1.5 million Jews living in the 15 successor states of the former Soviet Union.

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