The Orthodox Union named a veteran Canadian youth leader as head of its national youth group, which had been clouded by a sex-abuse scandal. On July 3, the centrist Orthodox group named Zale Newman of Toronto, a 35-year veteran of its National Conference of Synagogue Youth, as national director.
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