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FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1990

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Learning About Israel
At Hebrew University

Fact is, more Americans
may die by the fork than by
any other weapon. That's
because so many of them
use it irresponsibly. Like
to fill up on high-fat, high-
cholesterol foods. Foods
that can load the blood with
cholesterol, which can build
up plaque in their arteries,
increasing their risk of
heart attacks and threaten-
ing their lives. So next time
you pick up a fork, remem-
ber to handle it as you
would any other weapon.
For self-defense, not
self-destruction.

American Heart
Association

WERE FIGHTING FOR
YOUR LIFE

This space provided as a public service.

W

e're not in the
aliyah business,"
said Yisrael Ro'i,
vice provost of Hebrew Uni-
versity's Rothberg School for
Overseas Students. "But the
fact is that many of our
students come back to stay
after two or three years."
The fundamental aim of
the school, which attracts
some 2,000 students a year
from the Diaspora, is to
deepen Jewish identity.
Consequently, the 70
courses it offers lean heavily
toward Hebrew, Jewish his-
tory and Jewish philosophy.
Some non-Judaica courses
are offered, and students
who know Hebrew may
enroll in regular university
classes.
Students attend the
Rothberg School in three
basic streams: short-term
courses lasting six months or
less, the one-year program
for credit abroad, and the
four-year and preparatory
programs.
For the students in the
one-year program, the for-
mal courses are not the only
way of learning about
Judaism and Israel. The Of-
fice of Student Activities,
offers a range of informal
programs including
weekend visits with families
in development towns, mon-
th-long periods at a kibbutz
during semester break, vol-
unteer services in hospitals
or disadvantaged neighbor-
hoods, programs run by the
army for volunteer duty at
military installations and a
hiking club. One of the
weekend programs on Jew-
ish identity is known as
"The Propaganda Seminar."
The school's advisory ser-
vice is another way of help-
ing students adjust to life in
Israel — and, incidentally,
making it easier for them to
stay. "They come to me for
help in coping with the
difficulties and the bureau-
cracy," said veteran
counsellor Daniella
Schwartz.
Schwartz helps run a
workshop on decision-
making that is essentially a
seminar on how to integrate
successfully into Israeli life.
She recalls how one student
came crying to her after be-
ing shouted down by a
busload of passengers be-
cause she did not understand

where the bus stop was and
insisted on getting off at a
stoplight. "It's important
that the students have
someone to come to with
every problem," she said. "I
try to explain to them the
norms of Israeli life."
As well developed as the
Rothberg program may be, it
has its share of problems.
For one thing, the program
is a self-contained unit. Be-
cause there are so many
students in the program,
many find it easier to stick
with each other than to
mingle with Israelis. "They
don't live in Israel up there
on Mt. Scopus," said Rivka
Duker Fishman, a veteran
teacher at the school.
In the final analysis, the
success of the program
depends to a large extent on
the students themselves.
Josef Blumenfeld, a 23-
year-old graduate student
from American University
in Washington, D.C., worked
part time at the Israel Em-
bassy there before coming on
the one-year program.
Thanks to the contacts he
made there, he has found
some work with the Tourism
Ministry and the Jewish
Agency during the past few
months.
Academically, the year has
been almost a total loss,
Blumenfeld said. He took
four graduate courses in the
first semester and one in the
second. In other ways,
however, it has been a clear
gain. "I have learned a lot,"
he said.
Karen Abrams, 23, from
Santa Monica, Calif., is an
avid member of the school's
hiking club. It has provided
her with a close look at the
land and enabled her to
make friends with some of
the Israeli guides.
"I came here to meet peo-
ple," she said. She does so by
striking up conversations
with Israelis on campus and
in the city. "It takes an
effort," she says. "But if you
try, they're forthcoming."
David Wolle, a 19-year-old
biochemistry student from
the University of Toronto,
said he came on the one-year
program to see whether he
should make Israel his
home. In that respect, the
months he has spent at Heb-
rew University have not
helped him.
"The Israeli experience I
was looking for has not been
truly fulfilled by the univer-
sity," he said. "I feel I have

no clue as to what it's really
like to live here. All my
friends are American, and
we speak English all the
time."
Wolle's most powerful ex-
perience so far was when he
rented a car and toured the
North. An Arab dormitory
mate also took him to visit
his home in Iksel, a village
near Nazareth. During the
remaining months of the
program, he plans to do vol-
unteer work at Hadassah
Hospital.
All three say they are con-
templating aliyah, though
Abrams says she is attached
to her family and
Blumenfeld says his parents
would "kill him" if he set-
tled in Israel. ❑

Jerusalem Post Foreign Service

Senators Hear
Iraq's Hussein

Jerusalem (JTA) — A re-
ported offer by President
Saddam Hussein of Iraq to
dismantle his weapons of
mass destruction if Israel
does the same seemed to
satisfy four of the five U.S.
senators who held a news
conference in Jerusalem
Sunday winding up their
fact-finding mission to the
Middle East.
Only Sen. Howard
Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, the
lone Democrat in the group,
led by Senate Minority
Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan.,
was dubious of Hussein's
peaceful intentions and in
fact suggested that the Iraqi
leader suffers from a "war
psychosis."
In Washington, the Bush
administration welcomed
Hussein's reported offer, but
not the condition attached to
it.
The American legislators
talked with Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir and Foreign
Minister Moshe Arens of the
Likud caretaker government
and with former Labor Party
Ministers Shimon Peres and
Yitzhak Rabin, who are try-
ing to form a new coalition
government.
Shamir reportedly said
Israel is prepared to discuss
the demilitarization of the
Middle East with its Arab
neighbors.
The senators did not ask
for and got no response to
Saddam Hussein's offer from
Shamir.

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