WASHINGTON — Hillel Fradkin has been named president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a think tank that examines political and social issues within a religious framework.

Fradkin succeeds Elliott Abrams, who resigned in June to take a post on the Bush administration's National Security Council.

Fradkin, who researches Islamic, Christian and Jewish thought, has taught at the University of Chicago, Barnard College and Yale University.

He was most recently a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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He earned a bachelor's degree in government from Cornell University and a doctorate in Islamic and Jewish political thought from the University of Chicago. He also served from 1969 to '72 in the Army.

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