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July 30, 2002: Commission Chair to Testify on Anti-Semitism in Europe |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 30, 2002 Contact:
Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240, ext. 27
WHAT: Felice D. Gaer, Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent federal agency advising the Administration and Congress, will testify at a briefing of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on "Anti-Semitism in Europe." WHEN: Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 10:30 a.m. WHERE: Room 2255, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC. BACKGROUND: In the past year a wave of anti-Semitic incidents has occurred across Europe. Individuals have been attacked, places of worship and cemeteries vandalized or firebombed, and anti-Semitic signs posted with booby-traps to injure those who dismantle them. The Commission has publicly deplored acts of anti-Semitism in Belgium and France and continues to closely monitor violations of religious freedom on the continent as a whole. 
Felice D. Gaer, Chair - Michael K. Young, Vice Chair Firuz Kazemzadeh Richard D. Land Bishop William Francis Murphy Leila Nadya Sadat Nina Shea The Hon. Charles R. Stith The Hon. Shirin Tahir-Kheli Tad Stahnke, Acting Executive Director
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