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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE December 12 ( 1986 Page 9
Jewish professor chosen
for AJC’s Israeli seminar
Dr. Kathryn E. Amdur of
Emory University’s department
of history has been chosen to
participate in the American Jew
ish Committee’s 17th Seminar in
Israel for Jewish academicians.
Her selection was announced
by Marvin Weintraub, Ph.D..
AJC president. Drs. Melvin
Konner and Su/anne Mirra, last
year’s participants, chaired the
selection committee.
Dr. Amdur received her BA
degree from Cornell University
and masters and Ph.D. degrees
in the field of history from Stan
ford University. Her fields of
specialization include Modern
European History and French
Labor and Social History. She
teaches courses in Western Civil
ization, 20th Century Europe,
France since 1815 and Histori
ography.
Among her other professional
responsibilities, Amdur is history
department director of under
graduate studies, referee for re-
Kathryn Amdur
search grants and manuscript
publications and a participant in
numerous scholarly conferences.
She has published extensively
and has received numerous re
search grants. About the seminar,
Amdur said, “I wish to learn
more about modern Israel and to
strengthen my sense of identifi
cation with Jews outside the
United States. I wish to become
better equipped to integrate
materials about modern Israel
into my courses on modern Euro
pean history and on contempor
ary European politics.”
Sponsored by the American
Jew ish Committee's Department
ot Jewish Communal Affairs, in
cooperation with the Hebrew
University and the World Zionist
Organization, the special seminar
in Israel was established in 1970
to familiarize university faculty
with Israel's political, religious,
social and cultural life.
Past participants include: Dr.
Joseph Patterson, Dr. Harvey
Klehr. Dr. Virginia Hein, Dr.
Louis Schmier. Dr. Mark Bau
man. Dr. Diane Lavett, Dr.
Abraham Tesser, Dr. Boris Khu-
denko. Dr. Michael Jedel, Dr.
Melvin Konner and Dr. Suzanne
Mirra.
Finnish interest in Jews praised
by David Landau
JERUSALEM (JTA)—More
than 2,000 people, most of them
gentiles, attended a David Ben-
Gurion centennial gathering in
Helsinki, Finland, last week,
under the auspices of Jewish Na
tional Fund world chairman
Moshe Rivlin. The chairman,
back from a tour of Scandinavia,
told the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency Sunday that the interest
in JNF’s work among non-Jews
in all the Scandinavian countries
was phenomenal—especially in
view of the small Jewish com
munities in those countries.
In Norway, he said, another
mass rally took place with a Ben-
Gurion-JNF theme. In Denmark,
Rivlin was welcomed at the
Royal Palace and discussed with
a clearly fascinated Crow n Prince
Frederik Israeli methods of af
forestation and land reclamation.
Rivlin said the prince was in
formed and interested in matters
of ecology and quality of life in
Israel.
At the gathering in Oslo, Riv
lin said: “Some 60 percent of
Israel’s total area is the Negev,
and we are enjoined to pursue
David Ben-Gurion's vision of
turning this barren space into
fertile and productive land.”
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REFLECTIONS ON BIBLE,
JEWS AND JUDAISM
EMANUEL FELDMAN
Now available at the Beth Jacob bookstore.
Available soon at other local bookstores.
Profound, touching,
serious, playful—
oil describe accurately this collection of
sermons, lectures, reminiscences and
satire by one of America s most respected
yet provocative rabbis.
In this, his third published book, Rabbi
Emanuel Feldman provides fresh and
penetrating insights into the seminal
themes of Judaism, while not hesitating
to slay the sacred cows of contemporary
Jewish life.
Dr. Emanuel Feldman, rabbi of Atlanta’s Beth
Jacob congregation since 1952, is a distin
guished rabbi, writer & teacher. He has pub
lished two previous books, I ho 28th ot Ivar and
Law as Theology, as well as some one hundred
articles.
Clarification
JER USA LEM (JTA) —A report on the world Jewish popu
lation in the Dec. 2 Daily News Bulletin inadvertently dropped
a key word when it stated that the number of Jews by the end of
1985 was down to 9.5 million. The report should have clearly
stated that the 9.5 million figure related only to diaspora
Jewry. There are some 3.5 million Jews in Israel. The total,
therefore, for world Jewry is some 13 million.
The report on world Jewry was prepared by a committee on
demographics appointed by the World Zionist Organization
Executive.
The committee was appointed two months ago and submit
ted its report last week. The committee comprised several \N /.()
Executive members, Hebrew University scholars, representa
tives of the government's C enter for Demography, the World
Jewish COngress, and the American Jewish Committee.
Mubarak is hoping Shamir
will be as flexible as Peres
PARIS (JTA) President
Hosni Mubarak of Egypt blamed
the attitude of Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir for his failure to
visit Israel. Mubarak, who was
to arrive here Wednesday for a
three-day state visit, told the
newspaper Le Monde that he
had in fact accepted an invitation
to visit Israel, extended to him by
Shamir w hen the latter, as Israel's
foreign minister, visited Cairo a
year ago.
Mubarak said he advised
Shamir privately that he would
go to Israel but not to Jerusalem
“as we do not recognize it as
Israel’s capital.” He said Shamir
broke an agreement when he
revealed this to the press, and
when he said on his return to
Israel, “If Mubarak does not
want to visit Israel, let him stay
away.”
According to Mubarak, the
future of an Israeli-Egyptian dia
logue depends on the flexibility
of Shamir. “1 hope he will show
himself as flexible as (former
prime minister) Shimon Peres
has been," Mubarak said.
The Egyptian president main
tained that American arms ship
ments to Iran undermined the
“credibility” of the United States
in the Arab w orld. He also spoke
of his “clash” with the U.S. in
1985 when U.S. Air Force planes
forced an Egyptian airliner to
land at a NATO base in Sicily.
The airliner was carrying terror
ist suspects in the hijacking of the
Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro.
According to Egyptian sourc
es, Mubarak hopes to convince
French leaders to help convene
an international conference for
Middle East peace.
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