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Orthodox Jew Tapped as U.S. Attorney General


[JTA] Ron Kampeas - Judge Michael Mukasey, an Orthodox Jew, is the White House's pick to be the next U.S. attorney general. Mukasey, 66, is a lifelong congregant at Kehillath Jeshurun on New York City's Upper East Side. He was educated at its Ramaz school, and his wife for a time was the school's headmistress. A defendant in the first 1993 World Trade Center bombing tried to make Mukasey's Kehillath Jeshurun membership an issue. He filed an appeal to remove Mukasey as a judge, arguing that his allegiances would prejudice him against Muslims. Appellate judges dismissed the concerns as "utterly irrelevant."
2007-09-20 01:00:00
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