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WASHINGTON – Today, President Biden announced his intention to nominate the following people to serve in key roles:

United States Commission on International Religious Freedom The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom is an independent bipartisan federal government commission created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 that monitors the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad. USCIRF uses international standards to monitor violations of religious freedom around the world, and makes policy advice to the president, secretary of state, and congress. USCIRF commissioners are appointed by the president and the congressional leaders of the two political parties.

Mohamed Hag Magid, Commissioner, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Imam Mohamed Magid is the Religious Executive Director of All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center in Sterling, Virginia. He is the president of the International Interfaith Peace Corps and the former president of the Islamic Society of North America. He serves on the advisory board of the Peaceful Families Project and as Co-President of Religions for Peace. Magid is also the Co-Founder of the Multifaith Neighborhood Network, which focuses on building bridges between the Muslim, Christian evangelical and Jewish communities.

Its main focuses are the promotion of religious freedom, the prevention of violence against women, and the prevention of violence and hatred in our societies. Magid works with the United Nations Development Program to train Imams to address violence and extremism against religious minorities in East and West Africa.

United States Commission on the Preservation of the Heritage of America Abroad. The United States Commission on the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad was created in 1985 to ensure that important sites for populations affected by Nazism, Communism, and the Cold War will be preserved for future generations. The mission of the Commission is to identify, protect and preserve cemeteries, monuments and historic buildings in Eastern and Central Europe that are associated with the heritage of the United States. The work recognizes that the U.S. population is primarily composed of immigrants and their descendants, and that the United States has an interest in preserving sites in other countries linked to the heritage of these Americans.

Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, Member of the Commission, United States Commission on the Preservation of America’s Heritage AbroadElizabeth (Liz) Hirsh Naftali runs and owns a commercial real estate company in the Los Angeles Fashion District. He served on the board of Oakwood School in North Hollywood from 2002 and was chairman of the Board from 2012 to 2015. He currently also serves on the board of IKAR Shul in Los Angeles and the RAND Corporation Center for Middle East Public Policy. .

In 2007, Hirsh Naftali developed BIG Giving, a philanthropic branch of the company he co-founded, BIG Shopping Centers, which primarily supports educational, developmental and coexistence programs for Jewish and Arab children throughout Israel. He remains active in his philanthropy in Israel working with the Tel Aviv Foundation and the Museum of the Babylonian Jews. At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, Hirsh Naftali launched the Make More Masks Campaign, producing and distributing more than 100,000 masks to keep the most vulnerable in our communities safe.

Michael Lozman, Member of the Commission, United States Commission on the Preservation of the Heritage of America AbroadDr. Michael Lozman is a practicing orthodontist in Latham, New York. He has taught in the Department of Graduate Orthodontics at the School of Dentistry at New York University and has served in numerous professional leadership positions, including on the Board of Governors of the New York State Dental Society and as and President of the New York State Orthodontic Society.

In 2001, Lozman founded an organization to bring university students to Eastern Europe to restore Jewish cemeteries that were destroyed during the Nazi era. To date, the organization has completed the restoration of fifteen Jewish cemeteries, ten in Belarus and five in Lithuania. Lozman also founded the Capital District Jewish Holocaust Memorial, Inc. and is working to develop a Holocaust memorial in the capital of New York. Lozman has taught lectures in several countries, and has been noted for his Holocaust educational activities.

Roselyne Chroman Swig, Member of the Commission, United States Commission on the Preservation of America’s Heritage AbroadRoselyne Chroman Swig is Founder and President of ComCon International, and also Founder of Roselyne C. Swig Artsource. She was appointed Director of the State Department of the Arts in the Embassy Program by President Clinton. Swig has dedicated decades to philanthropic and community service efforts at the local, national and global levels with a focus on women’s empowerment, social welfare, the arts, political advocacy and education. He is Founder of the defense group Partners Ending Domestic Abuse and Founder and Member of Bayview Alliance.

Swig is National V.P. Emeritus of AIPAC, Lifetime Trustee of Shalom Hartman Institute, and Trustee Emeritus at Mills College. He has served as President and Trustee Emeritus of SF Art Institute, President of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, President of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, President Emeritus of Jewish Community Federation of SF Peninsula, Marin, and Sonoma County, President of SF Arts Commission. , and Co-Chair of the National Gallery of Art Committee, among others.

Lesley Weiss, Member of the Commission, United States Commission on the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad. In this role, he coordinates democracy initiatives, community education and outreach efforts, and promotes advocacy on behalf of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. She monitors respect for the governments of the region in the areas of religious and cultural rights and works closely with Jewish governments and communities on the restoration and preservation of Jewish communal property, the fight against anti-Semitism and the consciousness of the Holocaust. Weiss represents the National Coalition in Support of Eurasian Jewry at meetings of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and several other international conferences throughout Europe, Central Asia and Israel on the Holocaust, l anti-Semitism and international religious freedom.

Weiss is also a member of the U.S. delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. In 2013, President Obama appointed Weiss chairman of the United States Commission on the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, where he served until 2017.

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