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Fahmi Sees Better
Soviet Relations
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MOSCOW — Egyptian
Foreign Minister Ismail
Fahmi said last Saturday
he was optimistic about
"ironing out" policy differ-
ences with the Soviet Union
which have strained rela-
tions between the two coun-
tries for five years.
Fahmi was interviewed
by the official Soviet news
agency Tass, shortly before
leaving for Cairo after a
three-day stay in the Soviet
capital, where he nego-
tiated with Foreign Min-
ister Andrei Gromyko and
met with Soviet leader
Leonid Brezhnev.
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Israel Helps Develop Arab Libraries in East Jerusalem
By HEIDI PRESS
Arab libraries in Jerusa-
lem grew from a collection
of 4,000 books unavailable
to the public after the Six-
Day War to a system of
four Arab-directed libraries
and one bookmobile with
the help of the Jerusalem
Public Libraries Division.
According to Rachel
Cohen, director of the li-
brary division who was in
Detroit this week as a gu st
of the American Library s-
sociation meeting at Coco
Hall, in the aftermath of Je-
rusalem's reunification, Is-
raelis were sent into east
Jerusalem to find Arab li-
braries. There were none,
save a collection of 4,000
books of which the Arab
public was unaware. From
that collection, Israel devel-
oped four libraries and a
bookmobile_ serving a read-
ership of 30,000 Arabs.
Funded by the Jerusalem
municipality, as are the
other 25 city libraries, the
Arab libraries are staffed
by Arabs since they know
the needs of their people,
Mrs. Cohen said.
What is unusual about the
Jerusalem library system
is the peaceful cooperation
that exists between the
Arabs and Israelis.
Since the reunification of
Jerusalem, the two groups
have held joint programs
for children that have
earned the acclaim of both
communities. The joint pro-
gr ams include story hours,
f ilm shows and slide presen-
tations.
The Jerusalem library
system sponsors a Chil-
dren's Book Day in the
home of the Israeli Presi-
dent Ephraim Katzir,
where Arab and Israeli chil-
dren are invited to meet
and hold dialogues with au-
thors of children's books.
Mrs.' Cohen , called the pro-
gram successful.
Throughout Israel there
are 50 village libraries and
19 regional libraries with
the Jewish National Li-
brary located on the Hebr-
ew University campus. The
Israeli counterpart of the
U.S. Library of Congress,
the Jewish National Li-
brary houses more than 2.5
million volumes.
The Jerusalem library di-
vision lends slides and
films, records and offers a
stamp club, chess library
and *omen's library to
more than 350,000 residents,
both Arab and Israeli. Of
that number, 105,000, al-
most a third, are registered
readers—holders of library
cards.
American best sellers are
popular in Israel, Mrs.
Cohen said. Favorite au-
thors among the Israelis
are Frank Slaughter, Har-
old Robbins, Bernard Mala-
mud and Saul Bellow. The
American books, translated
into Hebrew, are so popular
that only 17 percent of all Is-
Greek-Jewish Re lations Studied
NEW YORK—A scholarly
study of the historic and the-
ological relationships be-
tween the Greek Orthodox
and Jewish religious-ethnic
communities is presented in
the spring issue of the
Greek Orthodox Theological
Review, just off the press.
This marks the first time in
American and in world reli-
gious history that such _a
comprehensive examination
of the interrelationship be-
tween Greeks and Jews and
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tions has been published.
The quarterly review, pub-
lished by the Holy Cross
Greek Orthodox School of
Theology, Brookline, Mass.,
has devoted its entire June
1977 issue to the publication
of selected papers that had
been presented by leading
theologians and scholars of
both religious communities
at the first National Collo-
quium on Greek Orthodox-
Jewish. Relations, held sev-
eral years ago in New York
City.
A simultaneous pub-
lication of this unique study
has been issued by the Jour-
nal of Ecumenical Studies,
foremost international
ecumenical journal sub-
scribed to by major Catho-
lic, Protestant, Evangelical,
Orthodox and Jewish lead-
ers around the world.
Begin Meets U.S.
Envoy for Talks
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Pre-
mier Menahem Begin met
with U.S. Ambassador Sam-
uel Lewis at Begin's home
Sunday. It was announced
afterwards that Begin will
visit the United States dur-
ing the second half of July
to meet with President Car-
ter.
Ambassador Lewis de-
scribed the meeting as
most amicable. Begin said
he discussed very serious
matters with the American
envoy, but would not dis-
close their nature. It was
learned that details of his
visit to the U.S. and meet-
ing with Carter were
among the matters dis-
cussed.
raeli readers are reading
original Hebrew texts.
The Israeli libraries are
operated similarly to their
American counterparts.
The open shelf system is
practiced, the ALA rules of
cataloguing are used as is
the Dewey decimal system
of organization. The lending
policy remains the same as
in the U.S., however, since
there is less television pro-
gramming, people have
more time to read. For that
reason the length of book
loans may be longer.
At the ALA conference
Mrs. Cohen learned ways to
update the Jerusalem li-
brary system. She had in-
struction in computer pro-
gramming, used in Detroit
public libraries, and was ac-
quainted with Detroit's TIP
information program,
which she hopes to imple-
ment in Israel.
Detroit Federation Presents #
$1 Million Check to UJA
On behalf of the Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation, a
check for $1 million in campaign pledge payments was pre-
sented to United Jewish Appeal National Cash Chairman
Gerald S. Colburn, left, and UJA National Women's Divi-
sion President Mrs. Merrill L. Hassenfeld by Paul Zucker-
man at the UJA National Campaign Closing Luncheon,
June 1, in New York City. The country-wide cash goal is
$150 million by Thursday. Zuckerman, prominent Detroit
civic and Federation leader, is president of the UJA.
Mizrachi Women
to Meet in L.A.
NEW YORK—The 52nd
national convention of
American Mizrachi Women
will take place Aug. 7-10 at
the Century Plaza Hotel in
Los Angeles. Theme of the
convention will be "Our
Children, Our Builders,"
and the emphasis will be on
the needs and rights of chil-
dren, especially in Israel.
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