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Nava Mizrahi will advocate on behalf of B'nai B'rith.
KYLE BERGER REPORTER
Meetings of the United Nations in New York will soon have a Vancouver touch to them. Once she has received her approved immigration documentation, the Greater Vancouver Jewish community's Nava Mizrahi will move to Washington, D.C., where she will act as the senior assistant for B'nai B'rith's Centre for Public Policy (CPP). •
The primary mission of the CPP is to promote and protect human rights, conlix)nt all forms of discrimination and support the state of Israel. They also advocate for selected issues on behalf of the Jewish people and establish international, national and local community programs and activities.
Along with Dina Sicgel Vann, director of B'nai B'rith's United Nations and Latin American Affairs, and Daniel S. Mariaschin, the executive vice-president of B'nai B'rith, Mizrahi will monitor and participate in the discussion and debates that take place at the United Nations office in Now York and at the European Union in Brussels.
Mizrahi told the Bulletin her job will also include frequent meetings with heads of state, kings, ambassadors and other government officials.
"We will discuss the issues of the day, with special attention paid to how tliey affect Israel and the particular circumstances that impact on individual Jewish communities around the world," she said.
Mizrahi said the most important thing she offers her new position with B'nai B'rith is a passion for justice and representing Israel.
"I am humbled by how much I realize I still don't know and must learn," she explained. "But every person makes an impression through his or her involvement with an organization and for me [that impression was made at] the CPP. That is my niche."
Mizrahi said the diverse range of issues will allow her to direct her energy toward several issues she feels strongly about, particularly, raising awareness and lobbying efforts in Middle East and Holocaust-related issues.
"In its entirety," she said, "I respect what B'nai B'riUi stands for and, even more, its utter persistence to actualize its ideals into real, cnbctive projects."
Some of the issues with which the CPP has been involved include Nazi gold and restitution, working on behalf of Jews in Cuba and the former Soviet
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Union, calling for the arrest and extradition of Dinko Sakic, the commandant of a death camp in Croatia during the Second World War, and opposing former U.S. president Bill Clinton's veto of the Iran sanctions legislation.
Mizrahi said she looks forward to using the skills she has learned and developed in the Jcwisli Community of Greater Vancouver.
"I have to admit that, as exdtcd as I am for all that I will be exposed to through this experience, I am just as excited about being able to bring everything I have learned bom being involved with this com-mvmity," she said. "I am sincerely proud to come from Vancouver.
"Every community has strengths and weaknesses, but the more I have travelled to others, [the more] I have come to appreciate my home community," she continued. "There is a real sense oinachcs (pride) that one derives through community involvement, especially once one sees results."
Mizrahi is well-trained for her new international responsibilities. She graduated from the University of British Columbia (UBC) last May with a bachelor of arts degree, honors, in religious studies with a minor in international relations. For her major, she focused on Judaism and Islam and for her minor in international relations, she concentrated on the history and politics of the Middle East as it relates to Israel.
She has also been involved with B'nai B'rith on many levels and she has already served as the senior administrative assistant for tlie CPP, providing support to all of the organization's programs, with a specific focus on United Nations and Latin American affairs.
Locally, she has served as the president of the Vancouver Hil-lel House at UBC and was tlie international president of the B'nai B'ritli Youth Organization for tlie 1996/1997 year. □
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