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U.S. Helsinki Commission to Hold a Hearing on Combating Anti-Semitism in the OSCE Region

Monday, November 28, 2011, 5:00 am

Please join the U.S. Helsinki Commission for a hearing on efforts to combat global anti-Semitism. The hearing will review U.S. Government and civil society efforts to combat anti-Semitism with a focus on initiatives designed to target violent and other manifestations of anti-Semitism in the fifty-six North American and European countries that comprise the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Lessons learned and the way forward in monitoring and combating anti-Semitism will be discussed.

Witnesses Scheduled to Testify:

Hannah Rosenthal, U.S. Department of State Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism

Rabbi Andrew Baker, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chair-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism, AJC Director of International Jewish Affairs

Stacy Burdett, Director, Government and National Affairs, Anti-Defamation League

Eric Fusfield, Director, Legislative Affairs, B'nai B'rith International

Mark Levin, Executive Director, National Conference on Soviet Jewry

Shimon Samuels, Director of International Relations, Simon Wiesenthal Cen

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