Tevia Maizel, chairman of the culture department of the Ashkenazic Kehillah Nidche Israel, has become the first Jew named to the Mexican Academy of Sociology. He received his diploma from former Mexican President Miguel Aleman, a friend of his. Maizel read a paper on the world population explosion at the ceremony.
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