An official at the American Jewish Committee will head a U.S. agency dealing with religious freedom. Felice Gaer, director of the AJCommittee’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, next week will become chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
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