NCSJ Celebrated Soviet Jewry Anniversaries

...40 Years Since the Movement's Birth
...20 Years Since the March on Washington

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Board of Governors Meeting - morning, 12.11.2007

Paul D. Wohlers, U.S. State Department  Director of Caucasus Affairs and Regional Conflicts, spoke about the political crisis in Georgia. (r., with NCSJ President Lesley Israel)		Presenting the meeting's keynote speech, Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. a Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow, discussed the U.S.-Russia bilateral relationship.

 

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Symposium - afternoon, 12.11.2007

NCSJ held an afternoon symposium entitled "From Oppression and Isolation, to Freedom and Rebirth: The Past, Present and Future of the Soviet Jewry Movement."

(l.-r.) Rabbi Norman Patz, Anniversary Co-Chair, began the symposium with opening remarks on the Soviet Jewry struggle. Panel I, "What We Knew Then and What We Know Now," was moderated by Mark Talisman, President of the Project Judaica Foundation, and featured Kevin Klose, President of NPR and former Washington Post Moscow reporter, and Jewish community leader Joseph Smukler.

Panel II, "The Power and Limits of Public Opinion in Democracies: The Significance of the Soviet Jewry Movement and NCSJ's Future Role," was moderated by former NCSJ Chairman Shoshana Cardin (center), and presented by Soviet Jewry scholar Dr. William Korey (right) and Yuli Edelstein (left), a former refusenik and now Member of the Israeli Knesset.

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All photos this page by Ron Sachs/CNP.

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