Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 2003 — Page 7

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Schechter awarded Esther

and Paul Lucky Fellowship Doctors share expertise

The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has announced that Landon Schechter is the 2002-2003 award recipient of the Esther and Paul Lucky Fellowship. A senior at the University of Cincinnati, Schechter is studying marketing and international business in the College of Business Administration with a minor in Judaic Studies. The Esther and Paul Lucky Fellowship is a one-year paid fellowship at The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education awarded to a college student to pursue community education and academic learning in the area of Holocaust studies. In addition to the 10 hours per week that Schechter will spend at The Center interviewing and recording survivor testimonies for "Mapping Our

Tears," he is required to complete an academic assignment under the auspices of the University of Cincinnati. The first recipient of the fellowship was Josh Brown, then a senior at Miami University, now a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion. Esther Lucky has been actively involved in the Dor 1'Dor program at Yavneh Day School, passing her wealth of knowledge on to the younger generations. Her testimony encompasses 14 concentration camps; she survived through her skills of nursing and health care. "Mapping Our Tears," a project of The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education of HUC-JIR, is a permanent, interactive exhibit detailing the personal stories of Holocaust survivors. Designed to resemble an attic from a Euro-

pean home of the 1930s, the exhibit will allow visitors to experience and explore the reality of Jewish life before its destruction by the Holocaust. The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education is an education and community resource center located on the Cincinnati campus of HUCJIR. It offers workshops, professional training seminars, and graduate courses. Teaching Holocaust Studies from academic and theological perspectives, The Center promotes tolerance and social justice in a broad range of civic and cultural concerns. For more information about the Esther and Paul Lucky Fellowship or the programs of The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, contact The Center by phone (513) 221-1875, ext. 355 or check the Web site at wwwbolocaustandhumanity.oig.

By RONA TRACHTENBERG Lauren Gelfond, a freelance writer in Israel, described how 71 American doctors recently flew to Israel for a joint medical solidarity conference in Jerusalem. Dr. Benjamin Sachs, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Harvard Medical School, led a delegation of academics from dozens of U.S. institutions who met with over 100 Israeli medical experts, many of them Hadassah physicians in the fields of emergency care, trauma, fertility, and oncol-

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Eleven other Harvard-af-filiated academics made the journey, as did leaders from the National Institutes of

Health and medical schools affiliated with such universities as MIT, Cornell, and Columbia. A high-ranking American military officer, who is not Jewish, was also a member of the group. "American medical professionals have a lot to learn from Israelis," said Jordan Cohen, head of the Association of American Medical Colleges. "We learn the importance of solidarity because medicine is a non-political enterprise without borders. We also learn how to prepare for and handle terrorism with mass casualties. Unfortunately, Israelis are leaders in this field, and we look to them for guidance."

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THE BOND THAT TIES—Israel Minister of Finance Silvan Shalom (second from right) accepts a display check for $10 million representing a new Israel Bonds purchase by the State of Illinois. Representing the Midwestern American state at the Treasury meeting were Illinois State Comptroller Daniel Hynes (far left). State Senator Jeffrey Schoenberg (second from left), Israel Bonds Board Member Howard Kaplan of Chicago (center) and Bonds President and CEO Joshua Matza (far right). Matza called the purchase "a vote of confidence in Israel's future economic development."