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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.” Let Me Handle Your Transportation Needs At Dyer & Dyer Volvo We carry all European models new & used Dyer & Dyer Volvo 5260 Peachtree Ind. Blvd. 452-0077 HarveyGlickson 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. 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