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In the New Yorker, Jane Mayer interviews Philippe Sands, the British Lawyer whose book, “Torture Team,” apparently provided the basis for a criminal investigation launched last month by a Spanish judge against six former senior Bush administration officials. At least one of the six targets is Jewish — Doug Feith,  the Bush administration’s undersecretary of […]

President Obama has named leaders of the Orthodox Union and the National Council of Jewish Women to his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Nathan Diament, public policy director of the O.U., and Nancy Ratzan, president of NCJW, both were appointed to one-year terms on Monday, joining Religous Action Center of Reform Judaism directeor […]