NEWS FROM THE Di P STUDIES PROGRAM Dire Ho FOR ISRAELI STUDIES ■ ■ ■ I amela Nadell, nside r ector, Endowment: p. 6 Abensohn F Lectures: p. 2 ward Wachtel, aculty Notes: p. 4 ctor, JEWISH CENTER zerici JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM T T I F Calvin Goldscheider Appointed we distinguished faculty.these two very To continue the type of programming you have come to expect from us, the Washington area and enrich the lives of AU students. Your past contributions have enabled us to host their teaching, lectures on campus, and community-based lectures off campus they will add to our presence in U DIRECTORSFROM THE programming of American University’s Jewish Studies Program and Center for Israeli Studies. form. Please clip the form and send us a contribution so we may continue to sponsor the highly acclaimed (2002); written or edited include U the Center for Women’s Studies at Stockholm F Be S held faculty appointments at the University of D U of sociology and demography at the Hebrew U has just retired from a distinguished career at Brown (2002); and sraeli Studies outhern California, the University of California at ulbright Research Scholar and visiting professor at aculty Fellow in Jewish Studies and niversity. The most recent of the 24 books he has niversity of Jerusalem and chairman of its niversity, where he is professor emeritus of sociology, niversity Faculty Fellow and Brown University’s Ungerleider Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies. Through epartment of Demography.epartment Goldscheider has also r

keley, and Brandeis University and was a Senior need your sustaining financial support. On the back page of this newsletter you Onneed your will find a contribution the back page of this newsletter sustaining financial support. C G I he Jewish Studies Program and the Center for first Abensohn Visiting Professor in Israeli Studies and Professor Calvin Goldscheider, American scholars from other institutions: Dr. Rubin Barry of the Interdisciplinary University—Herzylia as the his year the Center for Israeli Studies and the Jewish Studies Program welcome two distinguished sraeli Studies welcome Professor Calvin ultures and Conflict: The Arab-Israeli Conflict oldscheider as Faculty Fellow. Goldscheider S tudying the Jewish Future U He studies, sociology, and demography. scholar in Jewish studies, Israel an internationally renowned T ate of the Population Studies and J U udaic Studies, and faculty associ- raining Center. Goldscheider is niversity and was ngerleider Professor Emeritus of AND

earned his PhD at Brown Is r ael’s Changing Society THE CENTER FOR ISRAELI STUDIES formerly professor (2004). P Fr H contributing columnist to the I I P or coauthor of 20 books specializing in the Israeli- D.C., area and around the country. Rubin is the author U I V B F Tr lished F U the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise and the S made possible by contributions to the Center for Israeli I used electronic journal, and edits the edited or coedited. He on is an expert Turkey, as well, with Walter Laquer). The last is among 23 books Rubin the Middle East conflict widely used compendium of documents on nternational Affairs nternational sraeli studies, lectures in other classes at American nterdisciplinary University—Herzylia,nterdisciplinary and a nternational Affairs (GLORIA) at the tudies and its Abensohn Endowment and grants from ederation of Greater Washington. undamentalism in Egyptian Politicsundamentalism in Egyptian alestinian conflict, the director of Global Research in niversity, and speaks at programs in the Washington, nited Jewish Endowment Fund of the Jewish arry Rubin Namedarry Inaugural Abensohn is newest book eedom ansformation of Palestinianansformation Politics isiting Professor in Israeli Studies Y 2005–06 academic year. He teaches classes in Visiting Professor in Israeli Studies r asir Arafat: A Political Biography ofessor Barry Rubinofessor Barry is the inaugural (W iley 2005) Tu r kish Studies The Long War for (MERIA). Rubin’s appointment was . Pr M The Israel-Arab Reader eviously he pub- iddle East Review of journal and another widely Je r usalem Post. , and the , I slamic , The A for the bensohn (coedited F ALL 2005 FROM THE JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM director of strategic studies. She is currently the IN ISRAEL and a former high-ranking Mossad agent. Most assistant director for the Center for Human of the program, however, was spent in the field. Rights and Public Policy at B’nai B’rith Deputy director of the Field trips included going to the border of merican University’s Jewish Studies Lauren Kart, School of Public Affairs ’98, Federation’s first Young International. She was the U.S. representative to Center for Israeli Studies, Lebanon, where the participants saw the Program graduates have taken AU’s College of Arts & Sciences ’00, minored in Endowment Chair. Rhea Schwartz, with the Young Jewish Leadership Diplomatic Hezbollah flag flying but not the Lebanese flag; tradition of service out to the wider Jewish studies and teaches fifth grade at the Hila Reichman, College of Marcia Weiner Mankoff former prime minister A and family Seminar hosted by the Israeli Ministry for Shimon Peres during her going to Gaza to meet with high-ranking repre- Jewish community, where they have distin- Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Arts and Sciences ’97, minored Foreign Affairs and participated in the Nahum International Women’s sentatives of the IDF; meeting convicted terror- guished themselves as professionals and as out- Rockville, Maryland. in Jewish studies and went on to earn a Forum conference in Goldmann Fellowship in Sweden, a summer ists in an Israeli prison; talking with an Israeli standing volunteers. After their time on our Jamie Levine, College of Arts and Sciences master’s degree in Jewish Communal Service at Tel Aviv institute training the next generation of world- whose wife and two children were murdered by campus, many continued to explore Jewish and School of International Service ’02, double the University of Michigan. For six years she wide Jewish leaders. machine gun fire on their family car; meeting studies in graduate school or in formal pro- majored in Jewish studies and international worked with college Eric Siroka, College of with and seeing demonstrations by Israeli anti- grams of adult education. Our graduates work relations. After graduation, she was a program students at Hillel of Greater Arts and Sciences ’99, minored terrorist forces charged with going into Gaza and vocationally and avocationally with the local specialist for the B’nai B’rith Youth Organiza- Philadelphia, eventually direct- in Jewish studies. Ordained the West Bank to capture or kill terrorists; visit- and national Jewish federations; they teach in tion. She is currently a Jewish Service Corps ing the program. She was also rabbi by the Hebrew Union ing a specially trained team that detonates terror- Jewish schools and synagogues; they are leaders volunteer, stationed in Izmir, Turkey, where she active in the young adult College–Jewish Institute of ist-planted explosives; and meetings with mem- in their Jewish communities. Hila Reichman, works with the Jewish community for the Joint division of Jewish Federation Religion in Cincinnati, he is bers of the Knesset, including Natan Sharansky. immediate past director of Hillel of Greater Distribution Committee. Hila Reichman of Greater Philadelphia and on the spiritual leader of Or Eric Sinoka The group tried on Philadelphia, speaks for many when she says: “I Lori Lyons, College of Arts and Sciences the board of the Collaborative, a Jewish group Chadash synagogue in captured suicide truly believe that my Jewish experiences at AU ’00, minored in Jewish studies. After graduation, for 20- and 30-something professionals. Rita Simon, School of Public Affairs, in 2000 established Flemington, N.J. He is also the current chair of the Shula Ankary Foundation in Israel to support higher vests and suicide as a Jewish studies minor, my internship at the Lori directed the Graduate and Professionals Judy Millman Rosen, College of Arts and the board of rabbis of Somerset, Hunterdon, and education for North African Jews. In 2005, the latest of belts from suicide Jewish Community Center of Greater Division of the Hillels of Illinois and then Sciences ’86, majored in Jewish studies and more than 30 students granted awards accepted a scholar- Warren Counties and the rabbinic dean of the bombers and saw Washington, my year of study abroad in Israel, earned a master’s in Jewish education at the has worked with the American Society for ship from Moshe Ankary (Shula’s son). Seated, from left to adult education consortium Jewish LIFE. right, Professor Haim Levi (Hebrew University), Rita the Palestinian and my involvements with AU Hillel all shaped Jewish Theological Seminary. She is currently Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, the Jay Tcath, School of International Service Simon, and Ruchama Nagar (Shula’s daughter). warehouses of my career path.” Occasionally, such as when assistant principal of New York’s Congregation American Israel Public Affairs Committee, ’85, is vice president of the Chicago Jewish Improvised Chicago Jewish communal professionals Judy B’nai Jeshurun’s Hebrew School and a contribut- and the Union for Reform Judaism. She is Alan Levine, right, in the AU Federation and director of its Jewish Community (in Hebrew) T-shirt, eyes the Explosive Devices Millman Rosen and Jay Tcath met up for the ing author to the Jewish publishing company currently the Great Lakes regional director of Relations Council. He is immediate past presi- Alan Levine, School of Public Affairs, was remnants of one of the SCUD (IEDs) that the fist time this year, our graduates discovered their Behrman House. the American Associates of Ben-Gurion missiles shot at Tel Aviv by dent of the Jewish Community Relations one of 35 U.S. professors participating in a ten- detonation team AU Jewish studies connection. This year’s Marcia Weiner Mankoff, College of Arts University of the Negev. Her volunteer activities Saddam Hussein. Israeli officials Council Directors’ Association and is currently day seminar in Israel, euphemistically called “ter- said that, instead of warheads, had successfully dis- column spotlights our graduates. and Sciences ’91, minored in Jewish studies. center on the Solomon Schechter Day Schools participating in the United Jewish rorism school,” on how democracies defend one SCUD was filled with armed. Avital Ingber, Kogod School of Business She, her husband, Doug, and their growing of Metropolitan Chicago, where she was a cement and another with shoes. Communities–Mandel Foundation themselves from terrorism. Sponsored by the Levine says, ’03, minored in Jewish studies. An associate in family were recently featured on the cover of member of the board of directors, and Temple Photo taken at an Israeli mili- Executive Development Program. Foundation for the Defense of Democracy tary base. “Before I went to the Financial Resource Development Depart- Mosaic, the magazine of the Jewish Federation Beth-El, where she was campaign manager for His work with the Initiative for (FDD), the program consisted of classroom Israel, I knew about ment of the Jewish Federation of Greater of Greater Los Angeles, for their commitment the capital campaign. Israel on Illinois Campuses led meetings with experts from the renowned terrorism from reading about it and seeing it in Washington, she works with the Women’s to the Foundation for Jewish Camping. She also Susan Silverman, School of International him to return to his alma mater to Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the images. However, being in Israel and learning on Affinity Network and also serves on the United continued her Jewish learning in the Wexner Service ’99, ’00, minored in Jewish studies. get pointers from Professor Pamela Interdisciplinary Center in Herziliya, meetings the spot where the actual terrorism had been Jewish Community’s National Recruitment Heritage Foundation program and is a member While at AU, she interned for the American Jay Tcath S. Nadell and AU’s Center for with the American and Jordanian ambassadors to executed gave me a visceral understanding of Corps to educate and recruit students to work of the United Jewish Communities National Jewish Committee, working on foreign policy Israeli Studies. Israel, a representative from the Turkish embassy, terrorism that will never leave me.” in the Jewish community. Young Leadership Cabinet and the L.A. Jewish issues and eventually becoming its assistant

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■ ETGAR LEFKOVITS, correspondent for the ten days leading up to the 1973 Yom ■ DR. JACOB SHAMIR, ■ “The Archaeology of Qumran and the ■ “Resettlement of the ■ “We Are What We Eat: 350 Years of the Jerusalem Post, “Reflections of a KippurWar—the personalities involved professor of communica- Dead Sea Scrolls,” by Jodi Magness, Iberian Conversos: American Jewish Food,” by Joan Jerusalem Correspondent,” spoke on and the questionable military decisions tion at Hebrew University Kenan Distinguished Professor for Choosing an Identity,” Nathan, an internationally known the special problems a journalist faces that did not anticipate the Egyptian and senior fellow, U.S. Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism, by Professor Renée cookbook author. when there are vastly different competing attack on Israel. Institute for Peace, sum- at the University of North Carolina at Levine Melammed from ■ “Representing the Holocaust in Poetry,” narratives about a specific event. marized new research he Chapel Hill. the Schechter Institute ■ Journalist ELLI WOHLGELERNTER, by Professor Marc Lee Raphael, chair and Khalil Shikaki jointly for Jewish Studies in ■ Distinguished Israeli currently an editor at Dr. Jacob Shamir ■ “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Renée Levine of the Department of Religion, and conducted on Israeli and Jerusalem, where she is Melammed playwright and film Ha’ Aretz, spoke about Race,” by Dr. Patricia Heberer, historian Nathan Gumenick, chair of Judaic Palestinian public opinion in a lecture associate professor of maker MOTTI LERNER, the impending American with the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, both at the College of William entitled “A New Game for a New history and associate dean of the at an AU screening of presidential election and Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Mary. Era: Publics and Leaders in the Israeli- Women’s Studies MA program. his newest film, The its impact on the region Museum.

hoto by Eyal Landsman Eyal hoto by Palestinian Conflict.” Silence of the Sirens, P in a lecture entitled “The spoke on the widely Day after November 2.” acclaimed film about Motti Lerner Elli Wohlgelernter

2 3 Faculty Notes

Richard Breitman, Department of History, Jewish Thought about the Holocaust since WW of the Naturalization Examination. ideas for forming the MA Dance Curriculum. Construction of Memory, for which she received a continues his work with other historians on pre- II: The Radicalized Aspect” and “From Alan Levine, School of Public Affairs, won Prevots was an invited guest at the performance grant from the Lucius Littauer Foundation. She viously classified documents that deal with the Holocaust to Redemption in Wartime Jewish a Foundation for the Defense of Democracy of high school dance work at the Suzanne Dallal gave a lecture entitled “Holocaust Memoir: U.S. government’s knowledge of the Holocaust Religious Thought” both in The Impact of the Academic Fellowship for an intensive ten-day Center, associated with the Israeli Bagrut pro- Choose Another People/Sacred Script,” during World War II and its use of Nazi war Holocaust on Jewish Thought and Theology; and seminar in Israel on the threats of terrorism to grams. She was instrumental in helping to American Literature Association, and read poems criminals after the war. Cambridge University “Remember, But Do Not Resolve,” Murder democracy. He continues researching his book develop the Bagrut programs through her at Politics and Prose Bookstore, Café Muse Press published an expanded edition of their Most Merciful. His lectures were: “Religion in on the idea of America in European political consultations for the Ministry of Education in Literary Series, Grace Church, and Chapter findings (Richard Breitman, Norman Goda, the Face of Death,” Conference on the Church thought, 1492–9/11, a topic on which he 1993 and 1994. Books. Her essay “Appendix” was listed in Best Timothy Naftali, and Robert Wolfe), U.S. and Israel: Protestantism and Judaism in delivered numerous papers, including one at Rhea Schwartz, deputy director of the American Essays 2004 as one of “100 Notable Intelligence and the Nazis. A French translation Lithuania in the 19th–20th Century (Vilnius); the Tel Aviv Seminar in Political Philosophy, Center for Israeli Studies, participated in an Essays.” of Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What “God and Man in the Musar Theology of Tel Aviv University. He continues to run the International Women’s Forum conference in Tel Russell Stone, Department of Sociology, the British and Americans Knew was published. Slobodka: Avraham Grodzensky and Yitshak Washington, D.C., Political Theory Aviv, hosted by the Israeli Women’s Forum. serves as administrative officer of the Association Indiana University Press has agreed to publish Ayzik Sher” (Vilnius); “Religious Losses in Colloquium, is a regular consultant for the Delegates from 15 countries traveled the country, for Israel Studies (AIS). The headquarters office the diaries of James G. McDonald, coedited by Lithuania under the Nazi Regime” (Vilnius); Department of State’s International Visitors meeting with leaders in politics, academia, for AIS, an international academic association for AnewAU Barbara McDonald Stewart, Richard Breitman, and “Kabbalah in the Land of Israel: Mordekhai Program, and serves on the board of the AU science, journalism, and the arts. Highlights the study of contemporary Israel, is housed at and Severin Hochburg. Atiyah on Holocaust and Redemption” Hillel. included a private meeting with Shimon Peres American University in cooperation with AU’s Erran Carmel, Kogod School of Business, (Jerusalem). Richard Linowes, Kogod School of and a reception hosted by Moshe Katzav. She Center for Israeli Studies. He is advising editor The purpose of AU's $200 million capital on sabbatical, was a visiting professor at Alan Kraut, Department of History, Business, continues to teach several weeks a year was the Israel Week speaker at Temple Rodef of the Israeli Studies series published by the campaign is to transform the university University College Dublin (Ireland) where, received the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize from the in Tel Aviv at ISEMI, Israel’s Shalom, Falls Church, Virginia, and presented a State University of New York Press. The series so that the education and environment among other research projects, he researched the Medical Section of the American Public Health Institute for the Study of lecture entitled “Israel on American Campuses.” publishes four to six books each year on contem- we provide will enable future genera- comparative adjustment process of the Irish and Association for the best new volume on the his- Entrepreneurship and Rita Simon, School of Public Affairs, wrote a porary Israeli society, politics, and history and tions of students to respond insightfully Israeli high-tech industries since the dot.com tory of public health, his most recently pub- Management of Innovation. chapter on Israeli systems of juvenile justice in currently has 65 books in print. He serves on the collapse and the new era of offshoring. lished book, Goldberger’s War: The Life and His public lecture “American Juvenile Justice Systems; her book Illicit Drug editorial boards of the journals Israel Studies and and innovatively to emerging challenges Kenneth Cohen, rabbi and Hillel director Work of a Public Health Crusader. Kraut’s Financial Scandals and Their Policies: Trafficking and Use the World Over Israel Studies Forum. He presented a paper in a constantly changing world. To make a at AU, spoke on Neturei Karta, anti-Zionism, Immigration and Ethnic History Society’s presi- Aftermath” attracted a broad cross-section of the describes the law and use of drugs in Israel, and entitled “Oslo and Public Opinion” in the panel gift online, please visit our secure Web and the texts at the Rabbi Jay Sales Memorial dential address, “Foreign Bodies: The Perennial Israeli business community. she has a book forthcoming, The Roles and Failed Peace-Making at the 20th Annual site, www.giving.american.edu/gift. Discussion Series, Adas Israel. He was inter- Negotiation over Health and Culture in a Pamela Nadell, Department of History and Statuses of Women the World Over. Conference of the Association for Israel Studies. viewed on WRC-TV about the life of Pope Nation of Immigrants,” was published in the Jewish Studies Program, was deeply involved in Myra Sklarew, Department of Literature, His review of Joel S. Migdal’s Through the To learn more about gift opportunities and John Paul II. Journal of American Ethnic History, and his essay the commemorations for the 350th anniversary published: “What We Want from Our Enemies,” Lens of Israel: Explorations in State and Society the Center for Israeli Studies, go to: Gershon Greenberg, Department of “Health, Disease, and Immigration Policy” was of American Jewish life. A consultant to the Moznaim: Hebrew Writers’ Association Literary will appear in the Middle East Studies Association www.centerforisraelistudies.org. Philosophy and Religion, published: “The published in the Journal of American Ethnic Library of Congress’s exhibit From Haven to Monthly (poem translated into Hebrew by Bulletin. Theological Letters of Rabbi Talmud of Lublin, History. His lectures were: “Doctors at the Home, she wrote “America’s Jewish Women” for Moshe Dor); “Guardians of the Howard M. Wachtel, Department of Summer-Fall 1942,” Center for Advanced Borders: Historical Perspectives,” to the C. F. its companion catalogue. Her articles on the First Estate,” Grace and Gravity: Economics and director, Center for Israeli Holocaust Studies symposium, Ghettos Reynolds Medical Society at the University of anniversary also appeared in American Jewish Fiction by Washington-Area Studies, served on a committee to make doctoral 1939–1945; “Historiyah Ugeulah: Bituyim Pittsburgh Medical School; “Immigrant and History and Jewish Quarterly Review. She lec- Women, ed. Richard Peabody; dissertation and MA thesis awards in Israel studies YediAUt is dedicated to “our teachers Limeshihiyut Yehudit Ortodoksit Betom Milhemet Refugee Health: A Historical Perspective,” tured about the anniversary at such campuses as “Impasse,” D.C. Poets against for the Israel Scholar Development Fund of the and their students and the students Ha’olam Ha’sheniyah,” Yad Vashem, Holocaust keynote lecture at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the War, ed. Sarah Browning et American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. He is of their students” down through the and Jewish Historical Consciousness; “Amalek the American Society of Tropical Medicine and and Boston University and to diverse Jewish al; three poems in European chair of the Association for Israel Studies Task generations. Bitekufat Ha’shoah: Mahshevet Yehudit Hygiene; “America and the Holocaust: A communities, including Teaneck, Omaha, and Judasim: “Forest,” “Impasse,” and “Harmless”; Force on endowed chairs and centers in Israeli Ortodoksit,” Derekh Haruah: Sefer Likhvod Chapter in U.S. Immigration History,” cospon- Houston. “Talking to Insects in a Time of War,” The Studies. His book Street of Dreams—Boulevard of Jewish Studies Program Center for Israeli Studies Eliezer Schweid; “The Vilnius Torah sored by the Holocaust Awareness Institute and Naima Prevots, professor emerita, Potomac; “111 Days in My Life Plus 4,” intro- Broken Hearts: Wall Street’s First Century is being American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Conference, 19–21 June 1939: Messianism at the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Department of Performing Arts, presented a duction to a memoir by Ephraim Sten; translated and published in Chinese and Washington, DC the Onset of Catastrophe,” Jewish Intellectual at the University of Denver. He continues to lecture, “E-Learning in Dance: A Case Study “Monument,” Beltway: A Poetry Quarterly (con- Bulgarian. He has also published “U.S.-China 20016-8042 Life in Pre-war Vilna; “Holocaust and Musar for serve as the chair of the History Advisory Based on an Erasmus/European Union temporary poems inspired by Walt Whitman); Financial Entanglements,” Yomiuri Shimbun http://www.american.edu/academic the Telsiai Yeshivah: Avraham Yitshak Bloch and Committee of the Statue of Liberty–Ellis Course,” at the Dance Library, the Central and “Identity, Memory, and Authority: An (Japan) and “World Trade Order and the .depts/cas/js/js.html Eliyahu Meir Bloch,” The Vanished World of Island Foundation, is one of three script con- Library (Tel Aviv). She consulted in Israel Introduction to Holocaust Poems” (Hilary Beginning of the Decline of the Washington Produced by University Publications Lithuanian Jewry; “Postwar Orthodox sultants to the PBS television series History with Dr. Michael Sagiv, director of Wingate Tham, Myra Sklarew, and Dori Katz), ed. Myrna Consensus,” in Challenges of Globalization: New An equal opportunity, affirmative action university. UP 06-190 Responses to the Holocaust,” Contemporary Detectives, and served as a consultant to the College, and Dr. Shlomo Ben Gal, director of Goldenberg. She has an advance book contract Trends in International Politics and Society. ■ Responses to the Holocaust; “Ultra-Orthodox Office of Homeland Security on the revision Continuing Education, to begin exploration of from SUNY Press for Holcaust and the

4 5 Former AU President Hosts Reception in Honor of Lillian Abensohn Faculty Comings AU Starts Chapter of and Goings ne year after the establishment of the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Alums Host Dinner Reception Endowment in Israeli Studies, former AU president Benjamin Ladner and Two luncheon speakers launched an AU chapter of Scholars for Peace in the Middle in NJ Mrs. Nancy Ladner hosted a reception for donors to the endowment. The The Jewish Studies Program welcomes East—an international organization of faculty with 19 campus endowment’sO success enabled the Center for Israeli Studies to appoint Professor Barry its new affiliated faculty. chapters. Rubin as the inaugural Abensohn Visiting Professor in Israeli Studies. (See page 1) Rebecca Boggs, a Rhodes Scholar, followed her diploma in ■ Professor Gerald Steinberg, from Bar Ilan University, gave a talk Jewish studies from Oxford entitled “Exploiting the Rhetoric of Human Rights: War by Other University with doctoral work in Means” English at Yale University. She ■ Hudson Institute senior fellow Laurent Murawiec’s talk was joins AU’s entitled “The Dangerous Rise and Coming Fall of the House of Department of Saud.” Laurent Murawiec Literature, where Mrs. Anne Ayalon, substituting for she will teach the AU Resumes Formal Study Abroad Partnership her husband, Ambassador Daniel course entitled Ayalon, who had to return to with Hebrew University Israel for the visit of the U.S. secre- From Shtetl to Two AU alums and friends of the Center for Israeli tary of state, speaking about the Rebecca Boggs Superheroes in Studies hosted a dinner-reception at their lovely home in importance to Israel of the Center American University has officially resumed its study abroad partnership with Hebrew Modern Jewish Maplewood, N.J., for AU alums in northern New Jersey. for Israeli Studies and the University (HU), which was suspended in March 2001. Since then, AU students could Former American University president Benjamin Ladner (left) and Howard M. Wachtel, Literature. Her research focuses on From left, Ken and Mimi Heyman; Ellen and Alan Abensohn Endowment study at HU or others Israeli universities, but the process was more complex and financial director, Center for Israeli Studies, with Lillian Klein Abensohn in center in garden of the literary modernism and its after- Goldner, hosts; Rhea Schwartz, deputy director of the president’s residence aid could not be transferred. Now AU students can again study in Israel as they can at math, with particular emphasis on center, third from right; and Howard M. Wachtel, any other approved AU study poetry. She is married to Michael director, second from right. At right is Jason Benkendorf, We thank these contributors to the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Endowment Fund:* also an AU alum, who is now with the Embassy of Wenthe (see below). abroad program with all the Israel, Office of Academic Affairs. Dr. Mark H. Abensohn Harvey E. Fruman Stephen Kurzman and Rabbi Jonathan and Beverly Marcela Malek Sulak comes attendant benefits, including Vickie Abrutyn Dr. Paul and Michelle Gindoff Patricia Goldman Schnitzer transfer of financial aid and Adas Israel Congregation Geraldine Gittleson Dr. L. M. Lazarou Leonard J. Schreiber to American University’s Carolyn Alper Jack and Nesse Godin Ronald and Wilma Lenkin Gail and David SchwartzDepartment of Literature from the freely transferred credits back Maurice and Pearl Axelrad Sanford and Barbara Gold Susan B. Levin Harry and Deborah Segal Leonard and Gabriela Bebchick Helen Goldkind Levitt Foundation Yetta Segal University of Texas at Austin. Her to AU. David and Ellen Belkin Drs. Sara and Larry Goldkind Harry and Judie Linowes Hershel Shanks Right, AU students listen to information Judith Beltz Marjory Goldman Marvin R. Loewy Dr. Herbert and Madelyndissertation, R. New York as a Dottie Bennett Paula Seigle Goldman Kenneth A. Loren Shapiro Construction Site for American provided about study abroad at Hebrew Gary and Carol Berman Sonia Golobcow William and Helen Luksenburg Muriel Shindler University Dollye and I. Wolford Berman Mrs. Elaine L. Goodman Rabbi Jack Luxemburg Lawrence A. and RobertaL F.iterature, 1919–1929, considers a Foundation David and Jane Greene Dora S. Mallinoff Shulman variety of urban ethnic writers, David and Toni Bickart Jean Greenspan Dr. William Y. Marcus Warren Siegel and Ruth T. Bigelson Jerald and Debbie Greenspan Phyllis Margolius Christopher Sanger including the Yiddishist Moyshe- ✄ Pamela Bilik and Pamela Halperin Dr. Lynne F. and Roger Lewis Lester and Vivien Marion Jay and Ruth Silberg Stuart and Marty Bindeman Haims Anne C. Mazonson Beth and Barry Simon Leyb Halpern. 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