Biography - Mark B. Levin

 

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Mark B. Levin, Executive Director of NCSJ since 1992, is one of the organized Jewish community’s leading experts on national and international political and legislative issues, and has led the organized Jewish community effort in supporting financial and technical assistance to the new independent states of the former Soviet Union.  In June 2006, Mr. Levin was honored for 25 years of distinguished service with NCSJ at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Levin has served three times as a Public Member of the U.S. Delegation to meetings of the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE): the October 2004 Human Dimensions Implementation Meeting, in Warsaw, the June 2003 Conference on Anti-Semitism, in Vienna, and the November 1994 Review Meeting, in Budapest.  In addition, Mr. Levin has represented NCSJ at many other OSCE meetings, and served as a Public Advisor for the U.S. Delegation to the OSCE's April 2004 Berlin Conference on Anti-Semitism.  Over the years, he has traveled extensively, representing NCSJ and the Soviet Jewry advocacy movement.  In October 1992, Mr. Levin was the Scholar-in-Residence for the UJA Young Leadership Chazak Mission to Russia and Israel.  Mr. Levin made his first trip to Russia in 1982, leading a Congressional delegation which met with Soviet officials and Jewish activists.  He organized the First International Parliamentary Spouses for Soviet Jews Conference in Washington, DC.  Mr. Levin played an instrumental role in the creation of the Congressional Coalition for Soviet Jews – one of the largest Congressional caucuses ever formed.  He has also represented NCSJ at Democratic and Republican National Conventions since 1980. In December 1987, as a member of the Summit Task Force, Mr. Levin was a key figure in organizing the Washington Mobilization on behalf of Soviet Jews which brought more than 250,000 people to the nation’s capital.  (In 2002, he again worked closely with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and other NCSJ member agencies to organize the massive April 15 National Rally for Israel.) From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Levin served as Director of the NCSJ’s Washington office.  He has been a member of the organization’s professional staff since 1980.  Prior to coming to NCSJ, he worked for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).  Mr. Levin is a graduate of the University of Maryland. Read  Testimony on Anti-Semitism Letter on Russian skinhead threat Moscow Letter "Russian Democracy: Good for the Jews" Contact Mark B. Levin Conference of Presidents ... with Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, at Torah dedication in Almaty, Kazakhstan, February 2003

Ron Sachs/CNP Mark Levin in Washington with (l.-r.) Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Florida), and Deputy Assistant Secretaries of State Steven Pifer and Lynn Pascoe, June 2004 Elke Jung-Wolff / USOSCE ... in Berlin with Secretary of State Colin Powell, during OSCE  Anti-Semitism Conference, April 2004  ... in Moscow with (l.-r.) NCSJ Chairman Robert Meth, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and NCSJ Board of Governors Member Allen Kronstadt, April 2004 ... in Washington with (l.-r.) Georgian Foreign Minister Salome Zourabichvili and Georgian Ambassador Levan Mikeladze, June 2004 ... in Vienna with former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, head of U.S. delegation to the OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism, June 2003 Ron Sachs/CNP ... with Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas

Consolidated News Photos ...with Representatives Steny Hoyer (at left) and Chris Smith (at right),  celebrating a decade of free emigration from the former Soviet Union  Ron Sachs/CNP ...with Moldovan Ambassador Mihail Manoli  Ron Sachs/CNP ...with Turkish Ambassador O. Faruk Logoglu and B'nai B'rith International Executive Vice President Daniel Mariaschin  ...meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, January 2002  ...and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, May 2002 Ron Sachs/CNP ... with Assistant Secretary of State A. Elizabeth Jones, May 2003 ...discussing Jewish concerns at religious freedom panel on Capitol Hill, January 2002

Ron Sachs/CNP ...greeting (l.-r.) Georgian Ambassador Levan Mikeladze; Ambassador Daniel Fried, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Eurasian Affairs, National Security Council; and Lithuanian Ambassador Vygaudas Usackas  Ron Sachs/CNP ...with (l.-r.) Ambassador Shavkat Khamrakulov of Uzbekistan; Alexander Mashkevich, President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress; and Ambassador Kanat Saudabayev of Kazakhstan Dnepropetrovsk Jewish Community ... with Dnepropetrovsk Chief Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki, Ukraine, October 2002  Ron Sachs/CNP ...with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton at April 2002 National Rally for Israel at U.S. Capitol  ...conferring with Senators Joseph Biden (D-DE) and Gordon Smith (R-OR) Ron Sachs/CNP ...with Ambassador Hafiz Pashayev of Azerbaijan