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NEWS FROM THE JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM AND THE CENTER FOR ISRAELI STUDIES FALL 2005 FROM THE DIRECTORS his year the Center for Israeli Studies and the Jewish Studies Program welcome two distinguished scholars from other institutions: Dr. Barry Rubin of the Interdisciplinary University—Herzylia as the T first Abensohn Visiting Professor in Israeli Studies and Professor Calvin Goldscheider, American University Faculty Fellow and Brown University’s Ungerleider Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies. Through their teaching, lectures on campus, and community-based lectures off campus they will add to our presence in the Washington area and enrich the lives of AU students. Your past contributions have enabled us to host Pamela Nadell, these two very distinguished faculty. To continue the type of programming you have come to expect from us, Director, JEWISH we need your sustaining financial support. On the back page of this newsletter you will find a contribution STUDIES PROGRAM form. Please clip the form and send us a contribution so we may continue to sponsor the highly acclaimed programming of American University’s Jewish Studies Program and Center for Israeli Studies. Calvin Goldscheider Appointed Barry Rubin Named Inaugural Abensohn Faculty Fellow in Jewish Studies and Visiting Professor in Israeli Studies Israeli Studies rofessor Barry Rubin is the inaugural Abensohn Visiting Professor in Israeli Studies for the he Jewish Studies Program and the Center for 2005–06 academic year. He teaches classes in Israeli Studies welcome Professor Calvin P Israeli studies, lectures in other classes at American Goldscheider as Faculty Fellow. Goldscheider T University, and speaks at programs in the Washington, Howard Wachtel, has just retired from a distinguished career at Brown D.C., area and around the country. Rubin is the author Director, CENTER University, where he is professor emeritus of sociology, or coauthor of 20 books specializing in the Israeli- Ungerleider Professor Emeritus of FOR ISRAELI STUDIES Palestinian conflict, the director of Global Research in Judaic Studies, and faculty associ- International Affairs (GLORIA) at the ate of the Population Studies and Interdisciplinary University—Herzylia, and a Training Center. Goldscheider is contributing columnist to the Jerusalem Post. an internationally renowned His newest book is The Long War for scholar in Jewish studies, Israel Freedom (Wiley 2005). Previously he pub- studies, sociology, and demography. lished Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography, The He earned his PhD at Brown Transformation of Palestinian Politics, Islamic University and was formerly professor Fundamentalism in Egyptian Politics, and the of sociology and demography at the Hebrew widely used compendium of documents on University of Jerusalem and chairman of its the Middle East conflict The Israel-Arab Reader (coedited Department of Demography. Goldscheider has also with Walter Laquer). The last is among 23 books Rubin held faculty appointments at the University of edited or coedited. He is an expert on Turkey, as well, Southern California, the University of California at and edits the Turkish Studies journal and another widely Inside Berkeley, and Brandeis University and was a Senior used electronic journal, Middle East Review of Fulbright Research Scholar and visiting professor at International Affairs (MERIA). Rubin’s appointment was the Center for Women’s Studies at Stockholm ■ Lectures: p. 2 made possible by contributions to the Center for Israeli University. The most recent of the 24 books he has Studies and its Abensohn Endowment and grants from ■ Faculty Notes: p. 4 written or edited include Israel’s Changing Society the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise and the (2002); Cultures and Conflict: The Arab-Israeli Conflict ■ Abensohn United Jewish Endowment Fund of the Jewish (2002); and Studying the Jewish Future (2004). Endowment: p. 6 Federation of Greater Washington. zerici 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. the Young Jewish Leadership Diplomatic Rhea Schwartz, with 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 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 Shimon Peres during her Foreign Affairs and participated in the Nahum 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 International Women’s 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 Forum conference in institute training the next generation of world- Tel Aviv 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 Warren Counties and the rabbinic dean of the more than 30 students granted awards accepted a scholar- 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 adult education consortium Jewish LIFE. ship from Moshe Ankary (Shula’s son). Seated, from left to the Palestinian and my involvements with AU Hillel all shaped Jewish Theological Seminary. She is currently Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, the right, Professor Haim Levi (Hebrew University), Rita Jay Tcath, School of International Service warehouses of my career path.” Occasionally, such as when assistant principal of New York’s Congregation American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Simon, and Ruchama Nagar (Shula’s daughter). ’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 dent of the Jewish Community Relations one of 35 U.S. professors participating in a ten- missiles shot at Tel Aviv by 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- had successfully dis- column spotlights our graduates. and Sciences ’91, minored in Jewish studies. center on the Solomon Schechter Day Schools said that, instead of warheads, participating in the United Jewish rorism school,” on how democracies defend armed.