TheNational Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry (NCSEJ), formerly theNational Council for Soviet Jewry (NCSJ), is an organization in the United States which advocates for the freedoms and rights ofJews inRussia,Ukraine,Belarus, theBaltic States, andEurasia. Emerging from the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry, now with a paid staff, it played an important role in theSoviet Jewry movement, including such landmark legislation asJackson–Vanik amendment.^[1] Headquartered inWashington, D.C., it is now an umbrella organization of about 50 national organizations and 300+ local federations, community councils and committees.

NCSEJ comes out of the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry, which first met in October 1963. Among those present wereSaul Bellow,Martin Luther King Jr.,Herbert Lehman, BishopJames Pike,Walter Reuther,Norman Thomas, andRobert Penn Warren. This was followed in April 1964 byStudent Struggle for Soviet Jewry. The AJCSJ was formally established in 1971, with the name change to NCSJ was approved on December 13, 1971.^[2]Jerry Goodman was the founding executive director of NCSJ and led the organization until 1988.^[3]

The organization helped link Jewish emigration to trade restrictions, leading to increase of immigration of Jews from Soviet Union to Israel in the 1970s. It organized a march for human rights forSoviet Jews on December 6, 1987, the day before a meeting betweenRonald Reagan andMikhail Gorbachev, known asFreedom Sunday for Soviet Jews. About 250,000 people were there, among themGeorge H. W. Bush,Iosif Begun,Yuli Edelstein,Ida Nudel, andNatan Sharansky.

The chairman of the organization is Stephen Greenberg, and the presidentAlexander Smukler.^[4]

• NCSEJ website
• 1988 Conference, aC-SPAN video with speeches byGeorge Shultz andIosif Begun
• Guide to the Papers of Jerry Goodman at the American Jewish Historical Society

• Jewish organizations based in the United States
• Jewish political organizations
• Organizations established in 1971
• Political advocacy groups in the United States
• Soviet Jewry movement

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