Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Twenty five Jewish and Arab Israeli educators are completing the Harvard International Education Seminar this week after a month studying issues in American education...
...idea for the seminar originated three years ago, Chasdi, explained, when he and Donald W. Oliver, professor of Education, taught a course on "Community and Education." The students spent one month studying at Harvard and another in Israel touring Jewish and Arab communities. Chasdi laughs as he recalls the reaction of Israeli educators. "'This is all fine and dandy,' they'd say, 'But when do we get to go to America...
Rothenberg is equally optimistic about Jewish society in Israel. "Within two or three generations you will see intermarriage between European and Oriental Jews. Remember that we are much younger than you are --it is necessary to understand that these processes are long, and we are a young country..." But he sees no end to the separation of Arabs and Jews. "Living within one nation we are two separate nations of Arabs and Jews...
...That continued through the British mandate and the establishment of the state." It is unlikely to change in the future, but, he adds, "We do have a desire to work closer together--that's one of the goals of this program." He points to the teaching of Arabic in Jewish schools and of Hebrew in Arab schools as signs of rapprochment...
...slipping across the border to get aid from Israeli doctors. One Lebanese cabby even conducts a regular ambulance run to the frontier. Signs on the Lebanese side direct the sick and wounded to nearby Israeli towns where special first-aid stations have been set up. So far, the Jewish physicians have treated 2,000 Lebanese; some 100 are still recovering in Israeli hospitals. Initially, most of the patients were Christians, apparently because they were not as fearful of reprisals from their countrymen as were others. But these anxieties have diminished as medical needs increased. The Israelis recently...