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nal service and thought this
would be an excellent way to
start. "We want to learn from our
hosts, not just teach, change, or
make improvements. It will be a
sharing process."
The six North Americans were
chosen out of a group of 17 flown
to Atlanta last March for inter-
views and psychological screen-
ing. "Of the 12 who were chosen,
half dropped out because of
Chernobyl, safety concerns, or
simply other good alternatives,"
explains Ms. Silverman. The
dropout rate was similar among
the Israelis.
A collection of more eager, ar-
ticulate and self-possessed young
people would probably be diffi-
cult to find. If there was one fail-
ing of the selection (and
self-selection) process, it is that
the pilot group boasts only one
male, 21-year-old David Rappa-
port of Wilmington, Del. Mr. Eyal
stresses that the organizers will
be striving for a better balance
next year.
Mr. Rappaport speaks of a de-
sire to "go back to my roots" as
one of the things that drew him
to Amitim. Five of the 11 partic-
ipants, in fact, trace their fami-
lies back to Ukraine. And one of
them, 22-year-old Miri Pudalove,
actually hails from the region and
still has relatives there.
Others, however, like 23-year-
old Hillary Arlen of Framingham,
Mass., were attracted by the
sheer challenge and uniqueness
of the program. "I read about
Amitim while completing my MA
in theater history and looking for
a break before starting my doc-
torate," she explains.
The 11 Amitim participants
are in the midst of a two-month
seminar in Jerusalem, studying
Russian, brushing up on Jewish
and Israeli subjects, and devel-
oping the kind of group solidari-
ty that will be so important once
they find themselves on their
own.
It's not by chance that the pi-
lot program is built on almost
equal numbers of Israelis and
North Americans. "Bringing
young people from Israel and the
diaspora together in a coopera-
live framework is in itself one of
the aims of Amitim," Mr. Eyal
notes.
One thing the two contingents
quickly discovered they share is
understandable apprehensions
about going off to a strange,
vaguely menacing place "Where
you can't always get an interna-
tional phone connection," as Mr.
Silverman points out.
What kind of an impact do
these young people expect to have
on their hosts? And what kind of
impact do they expect their ven-
ture to have upon their own lives?
Twenty-one year-old Ronit Glus-
berg, who spent two months
teaching in Odessa during her
army service, points to the heart
the matter.

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