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T

he Dalia Reuven who
spoke to the Detroit
Friends of Bar-Ilan
University on Nov. 6
is light-years removed from the
frightened Ethiopian child who
trekked across the Sudan toward
Israel in 1984.
A senior at the Ramat Gan-
based university, Reuven, 24,
plans to go on to earn a master's
degree in psychology. Her goal
now is to help bridge the gap
between other young ohm
(immigrants) and their older
family members, and to help
them adapt to their new lives in
Israel.
Michigan was the third stop
on a four-city tour that brought
Reuven first to New York and
Miami. Sponsored by Bar-Ilan,
she spoke with about 80 local
residents at a luncheon at the
Dalia Reuven
Max M. Fisher Federation Building
in Bloomfield Township, then left
for Cleveland.
Tragedies like this one haunt many
Reuven, whose appearance, poise
of
Israel's immigrant families, wherever
and intelligence charmed the audi-
they
came from. But, she said, young
ence, minimized the privation her
Ethiopian
Jews who made ahyah with
family faced in Ethiopia and on the
family
face
an even greater generation
trip to Israel.
gap
than
that
encountered by teens
"When we lived in Ethiopia, it was-
whose
parents
grew up in the same
n't bad," she said. "Later on, there was
country.
a famine; the locals became more prej-
"Education is really important,"
udiced. But with us, it was the pure
Reuven
said. "Those who are helping
desire to go to Israel."
them
are
helping not only the
About 30 people from her home vil-
Ethiopians,
but all Israeli society." ❑
lage, which she said was a "mini-kib-
butz," went with her to Israel. Reuven
was almost 8 years old, and her imme-
The American Friends of Bar-
diate family consisted of her mother,
-Ilan University is sponsoring a
stepfather and two younger brothers.
Solidarity Delegation to Israel
One brother was only 2 months old.
and to the university's campus
"We walked to the Sudan," Reuven
in Ramat Gan. The trip, Dec.
said. "Then the Sudanese arrested my
3-8, will include study sessions
stepfather because he was helping the
at the university and meetings
Mossad [the Israeli intelligence organi-
with top Israeli leadership.
zation]. They kept him three years.
Everyone is welcome.
They broke his bones."
Information is available from the
Eventually, he escaped and made his
Bar-Ilan University office at (248)
way back to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
540-8900; fax (248) 540-0515; or
"When he came to Israel, in 1991, he
e-mail dfbiuei earthlink net
was like a broken vessel," Reuven said.
"He still needs medical attention."

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11/17
2000

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