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Send a tray 1 Nibbles & Nuts 737.8088 A Thoughtful Expression... With a Cookie or Candy Tray 210000 if Sr---"" WE DELIVER! 737-2450 I 1 132 FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1990 DAN IZENBERG Special to The Jewish News AMENITIES INCLUDE: 851-4803 SHIVA BASKETS & TRAYS . . . 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.