Mr.
Current
Sammy Eppel
Trained as Mechanical Engineer, Member of the Founding group of Kibbutz Grofit, Israel. Lived there from 1970 to 1974.Consultant, political analyst, Journalist, Member of Interamerican Press Association(sociedad interamericana de prensa SIP). Columnist for Venezuelan major newspaper (EL UNIVERSAL), over 600 published articles, also reprinted in other newspapers and websites. Guest commentator in radio and Television in Venezuela and abroad.Founder(1995) and past president of FUNDACION MADRE MARIA LUISA CASAR, a foundation that cares for underprivileged children in Caracas slums that runs a school, a medical facility and a food preparation center. Wasmember of the governing body of Venezuelan Jewish community (CAIV) and past director of DDHH of B’nai Brith Venezuela. Lecturer and presenter of HASBARA Spanish program. Active on interfaith relations.Since 2004 has dedicated time to the study of the Venezuelan phenomenon that has been “GOVERNMENT SPONSORED ANTISEMITISM”. Traveled extensively to conferences and have lectured and given presentations on the subject in Spanish and English at, AJC latin forum Miami, Global Forum Jerusalem, ICCA in London and Ottawa, YIISA institute at Yale Uni, Tel Aviv Uni in Budapest, Paris, Tel Aviv and Zurich. ADL conference at Palm Beach, Israeli President’s Conference, SAJBG(south African Jewish board of governors) Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth, world Zionist organization(OSA) Argentina, Bnei Brith conferences Costa Rica, Panama, Washington, and Prague. La Maison De L'Amerique Latine Paris, State Uni of Rio, Brazil, NHCLC Houston, CUFI San Antonio Tx, Resident/research scholar ISGAP, co-chair of the first Global Forum to combat Antisemitism in latin America. Director of interfaith relations for Hatzad Hasheni Hasbara project. Now involved, with award winning Director Daniel Benaim and the US Holocaust Museum, in a documentary on western attitudes in 1939 that sealed the fate of many Jews.