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…PURELY COMMENTARY PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus Bar-Ilan's Detroit Roots: Our Cultural Achievement F rom the earliest years of this century, our community shared in the advancement of Israel's major cultural tasks. Technion was among the first with a direct involvement in the for- mation of the Detroit Zionist Engineering Society. Then, with the Hebrew University's initial years, star- ting in 1925, the local involve- ment kept growing...…
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…DETROIT Oak Park's Jim Rosen Reports From Moscow Levin Calls AAI Charges 'A Personal Slur' STAFF REPORT M ichigan Sen. Carl Levin this week called charges by a leading Arab activist that Political Action Committee money influences the senator's politics "a personal slur." James Zogby, executive director of the Washington- based Arab-American In- stitute (AAI), claimed Levin is creating "a kind of hysterical campaign that Israel is once ag...…
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