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ler, student body president of
Creighton University, a Catholic
school in Omaha, Neb., used to
feel inhibited talking to Jews be-
cause he had only minimal fa-
miliarity and contact with them.
Now, however, after returning
from a recent trip to Israel, Mr.
Ickler said the barriers have fall-
en.
The evidence? While he was
stranded for 12 hours in New
York's John F. Kennedy Airport
waiting for his return flight home,
he walked over to a complete
stranger — a man wearing a
yarmulke — and started talking
about Israel and his recent trip.
Todd Chrzanowski, who lives
in the self-described "white,
Christian world" of small-town
northern Minnesota, said his idea
of Israel as "a stuffy, conservative
society" was quickly dispelled by
the "energy" of Tel Aviv and the
bar scene in the holy city of
Jerusalem.
Jennifer Tschetter, a political
science and economics major at
South Dakota State University,
also had several misconceptions
of Jews and Israel dispelled by
her visit to Israel earlier this
month, which was sponsored by
Project Interchange of the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee.
Ms. Tschetter said she was
worried about security and vio-
lence, but "felt very safe" once in
Israel. The trip, she said, also
gave her a "new understanding
and appreciation for Judaism, not
just as a religion, but as an en-
during culture."
Ms. Tschetter said that her
perception before the trip of Jews
as a whole was solely based on
"textbooks and stereotypes."
Mr. Ickler, Mr. Chrzanowski
and Ms. Tschetter were three of
the 11 student leaders who were
flown to Israel for Project Inter-
change's eight-day seminar,
which exposed them to the com-
plexities of Israeli society. They
explored issues such as the Arab-
Israeli conflict, Arab-Jewish co-
existence, U.S.-Israeli relations,
history, religion, archaeology, im-
migration and Zionism.
The student body leaders, who
are not Jewish, were chosen from
schools in the Midwest and
Plains states that have few Jew-
ish students and that have had
student body presidents go on to
hold state and national political
offices, according to Lisa Eisen,
executive director of Project In-
terchange.
For the past 12 years, Project
Interchange has sponsored sem-
inars in Israel for some 1,200 eth-
nic and religious leaders,

members of Congress and stu-
dents. They are designed to edu-
cate the American leaders about
Israel and to promote cooperation
between the two countries.
This most recent trip was the
first held specifically for college
student body presidents.
Ms. Eisen said the goal of the
educational seminar was to "give
a general overview of Israeli so-
ciety and the challenges it faces"
to student leaders who have not
been exposed to Judaism and the
Middle East.
"The perfect time to educate
future American leaders about
Israel is when they are young,"
Ms. Eisen said.
By meeting with Israeli and
Arab student leaders, kibbutz
members and soldiers their age,
according to Eisen, the students
will have some "personal con-
nection" to Israel and its people,
which will benefit American-Is-
raeli relations in the future.
"We don't give a whitewash of
Israel," Ms. Eisen said, referring
to the many points of view pre-
sented to the students.
'We let them draw their own
conclusions."
In the end, Ms. Eisen said,
most of the participants "come
out with a positive view of Israel."
Some future "tangible effects"
of the trip, according to Ms. Eisen,
may be support for Israel when

As leaders on their
college campuses,
the students are
planning to use their
experiences to help
educate their peers.

and if students reach Congress
or trade relationships between
Israel and states in which they
might hold influential offices.
"When these people move up
to state and national leadership
positions they will have a per-
sonal connection and under-
standing and will be sensitive to
Israel's concerns," Ms. Eisen said.
Hypothesizing about future po-
sitions in Congress, both Mr. Ick-
ler and Mr. Chrzanowski said
their experiences in Israel and
their better understanding of Is-
rael's goals would most likely in-
fluence them in favorable ways
on issues dealing with Israel.
"I see and understand the
goals of Israel now," Mr. Ickler, a
psychology major, said.
Ms. Tschetter said that, if
elected to Congress, she would be