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New director for ADL New England

E-mail|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Michael Paulson August 20, 2008 07:53 AM

The Anti-Defamation League has hired a new regional director to head its New England office, which has been struggling because of a controversy over the national organization's decision not to use the word "genocide" to describe the massacre of Armenians by Turks during World War I. In today's Globe, Michael Levenson reports:

"Derrek L. Shulman, who will take over as the ADL's New England regional director in October, worked for the past 5 1/2 years as political director in the Boston office of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and for nine years before that as a top official in the state Executive Office of Elder Affairs. He takes over at a time of turmoil for the ADL, a 95-year-old organization that was founded to fight anti-Semitism and now has a stated mission to combat 'all forms of bigotry.'"

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Michael Paulson covers religion for The Boston Globe. He shared in the Pulitzer Prize in 2003, won the Mike Berger, Templeton and Supple awards in 2008, and is a four-time winner of the Wilbur Award.
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