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…/ , ,-. --- / -- -, ■ ■ \ \ / All the news that fits__ / Compiled by Elizabeth Applebaum C CAMERA Study Charges Anti-Israel Bias at NPR AMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Re- porting in America, last week issued in its fall newsletter a study of National Public Radio's coverage of the Middle East, charging a persistent pat- tern of anti-Israel bias. CAMERA President Andrew Levin noted that despite NPR's intense foc...…
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…50 YEARS AGO... Detroit Rabbis Honor Colleague SY MANELLO SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS F or the first time in the history of the Jewish community in Detroit, all Detroit rabbis as- sembled at one gathering at Congregation Shaarey Zed- ek to honor Dr. A. M. Her- shman on the eve of his sabbatical departure. A special report out of New York recorded the courage and versatility of Jewish soldiers, who, to- gether with their fellow Americans, he...…
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