Newsbriefs ----------------------------------------------------------------- Office furniture, kitchen equipment being sought for East Baltimore community health center ----------------------------------------------------------------- Heart, Body and Soul, the School of Medicine-affiliated service organization dedicated to the betterment of the East Baltimore community, is currently accepting donations for the area's newest health center. The Mattie B. Uzzle Outreach Center, at 1211 North Chester St., provides substance abuse counseling, eye screenings and tests for diabetes to all residents. Professionals also offer CPR training, blood pressure and cholesterol training and classes on nutrition and aerobics. The center, which is the first new building to be constructed in the struggling neighborhood in more than 40 years, officially opened last month. Volunteers and organizers are in need of desks, chairs, file cabinets, sofas, and kitchen equipment and supplies. The center will arrange for pickup of donations; for more information call Starr Mickle in the Center for Health Promotion at 955-7781. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Johns Hopkins University Press to publish 102-year-old "American Jewish History" journal ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Johns Hopkins University Press has added "American Jewish History," the official journal of the American Jewish Historical Society, to its publications list. The society is the oldest national ethnic historical organization in the United States. The pre-eminent scholarly journal in its field, "AJH" focuses on all aspects of the American Jewish experience. Published for 102 years, the journal often focuses on special topics, such as American Jewish women, Jews in American sports or American Jews in the Holocaust. "We selected the Hopkins Press for its impeccable professional standards," said "AJH" editor Marc Lee Raphael, the Gumenick Professor of Judaic Studies at the College of William and Mary. "They publish beautiful journals that come out on time." The Hopkins Press began publishing "AJH" in November with vol. 82, a hefty 448-page tome comprising all four issues for 1994. The press is working closely with Dr. Raphael to resume a regular quarterly schedule in 1995, with issues published in March, June, September and December. "The journal had been printed by an obscure press, and there were just so many problems," Dr. Raphael said. "We hadn't been out in two years." The acquisition of the "AJH" is another milestone in the Press's efforts to expand its list in Jewish studies. In 1992, it published the highly acclaimed five-volume set "The Jewish People in America," also for the American Jewish Historical Society.