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Anti-Defamation League names White House official as new leader

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WASHINGTON (RNS) Jonathan Greenblatt, a special assistant to President Obama, will succeed Abraham Foxman as head of the Anti-Defamation League, the world’s best-known organization founded to combat the hatred of Jews and Judaism.

Greenblatt will take the helm of the ADL next July when Foxman retires after 27 years.