NCSJ: Advocates on Behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia

Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko met with representatives of American Jewish organizations at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, co-hosted by NCSJ (April 2004)

Today, NCSJ helps to secure the well-being of over one million Jews who are rebuilding Jewish life in the former Soviet Union. Comprising nearly 50 national organizations and over 300 local federations, community councils, and committees, NCSJ works on behalf of federations to ensure that political conditions in the former Soviet Union allow Jews to live freely as Jews, without interference or intimidation. 

Since 1991, NCSJ has worked in the changed political environment towards: assuring full and free access to Jewish tradition, education, culture, and communal life in Russia and Eurasia; involving American Jews in revitalizing Jewish life in these countries; monitoring and combating anti-Semitism in the post-Soviet region; cooperating with foreign policy makers in the United States, and with other Western governments, on behalf of Jews in the former Soviet Union; assisting

NCSJ leadership and staff in Tallinn Estonia with Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet (May, 2007)