Orthodox Jewish Group Supports Alito

The Orthodox Union, representing a large segment of Orthodox Jews in the United States, has sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee supporting Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, Jr. , according to a report yesterday from the JTA. The letter from O.U.’s Institute for Public Affairs said it is impossible to view Alito’s positions on the separation of church and state as out of the mainstream. "Only those who would advocate the most extreme views of religion-state relations in America — either total separation or total integration — could assert as much," the letter said.