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Prof IJ SIngh to deliver keynote
address at Saldef Gala
WSN Network
Washington DC:
James Standish, Executive Director of the United States Commission
on International Religious Freedom and Richard Foltin, Legislative
Director and Counsel to the American Jewish Committee will both be
recognized with the Dorothy Height Coalition Building Award during
SALDEF’s 2009 Civil Rights Awards Gala on May 2, 2009 in the Los
Angeles Area.
Dr. I.J. Singh,
a leading scholar and a Murry & Leonie Guggenheim Foundation fellow
will deliver a keynote address. Singh is a professor of anatomical
sciences at New York University and serves on the Advisory Boards of
the Sikh Research Institute, and United Sikhs, a trustee of the
MBSK Foundation and a consultant to the Sikh Coalition.
James D
Standish has been named the co-recipient of the 2009 Dorothy Height
Coalition Building Award for his dedicated leadership to religious
freedom in the United States and around the World and for his
leadership as a past co-chair of the Workplace Religious Freedom
Coalition.
Richard T.Foltin
is responsible for the development, promotion and execution of AJC's
legislative agenda (which includes religious liberty, civil rights,
immigration, hate crimes, the intersection of national security and
human rights, and foreign affairs issues).
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April 2009
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