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    CLARK GRAD TAKES REGIONAL JOB ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE DIRECTOR

    Worcester Telegram
    http://www.telegram.com/article/20080821/ NEWS/808210687/1006/NEWS07
    Aug 21 2008
    MA

    A Clark University graduate and former Clinton resident has been named
    the New England regional director for the Anti-Defamation League,
    the organization announced yesterday.

    Derrek L. Shulman of Needham will join the ADL after serving nearly
    six years as the New England political director of the American Israel
    Public Affairs Committee in Boston. Mr. Shulman is an adjunct faculty
    member at Lassell College's Graduate School of Elder Care Management,
    where he teaches marketing and politics. He has also worked as a
    daily newspaper reporter and columnist, with articles appearing in
    publications such as The Boston Globe and Baltimore Sun, according
    to the ADL. He was also a reporter for the Clinton Daily Item.

    "We are entering a growth period at ADL, and Derrek is the perfect
    choice to lead us through it," said Esta Gordon Epstein, Chair Elect of
    the ADL's New England Regional Board, in a statement released by the
    ADL yesterday. "Derrek has the vision, people skills, and experience
    to enhance our ability to build bridges between ADL and other groups
    and communities, and to promote diversity and appreciation for our
    differences."

    A former Clinton resident, Mr. Shulman lives in Needham with his wife,
    Beth, and their two young children. Mr. Shulman will replace interim
    Regional Director Jonathan Kappel. Mr. Kappel was named interim in
    the wake of a controversy. Former Regional Director Andrew H. Tarsy
    was fired last year by National Director Abraham H. Foxman for calling
    upon the organization to recognize the killings in Turkey as a genocide
    and to support a congressional resolution on the matter.

    Mr. Foxman said at the time that he and the ADL acknowledged the
    massacre but feared that calling the slaughter a genocide might
    imperil Jews living in Turkey. Under mounting pressure from Jewish and
    Armenian groups, the ADL finally labeled the killings as "tantamount to
    genocide," but stopped short of backing the congressional resolution.

    Mr. Kappel will stay on as development director at the ADL. He said
    Mr. Shulman, who could not be reached for comment last night, is
    certainly aware of what the ADL has gone through in the past year,
    but said he will start the job in October with a focus on the ADL's
    core mission of fighting anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry.
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