By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | August 21, 2007
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"I have never gotten such unanimous support for any position by the JCRC as I have in the last few days on this one," Kaufman said. "It doesn't matter where people are on the political spectrum -- left, right, middle -- people are really standing behind this
because it strikes at the core of what it means to be a Jew and never again means never again."{emphasis mine}
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In an open letter, the ADL has called the bill pending in Congress "counterproductive" and said the organization, founded in 1913 to fight anti-Semitism, worried what effect it would have on Jews in Turkey.
The controversy has since drawn in Jewish leaders across the region, not all of whom are in agreement with the local ADL. Grand Rabbi Y.A. Korff, a chaplain of the City of Boston, said the local chapter made a mistake in breaking ranks with its national leaders, who he said are better suited to assess "very sensitive international and diplomatic nuances and ramifications."
"As with any organization, you can't have different chapters going their own way, and basically that undermines the national organization," Korff said in an interview from Jerusalem. "In my view, the essential issue is how does a national organization make these decisions, and who is in the best position to make these decisions."
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