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January 19, 1968 - Image 5

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1968-01-19

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Twelve Inches o f Snow Isolates Jerusalem; Coast Hit by Gales

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

TEL AVIV — Snow driven at
times by gale force winds still cov-
ered large portions of Israel this
week. But a warm sun broke
through the clouds at Tel Aviv
and Haifa, on the coast, Tuesday
morning, indicating that the worst
storm to hit this country in 30
years was abating.
Fresh snow cut Jerusalem off
from coastal regions Tuesday after
emergency squads had labored
most of Monday to clear the Shaar
Hagai .road. Police and military
personnel using vehicles with four-
wheel drive distributed bread and
milk to people in outlying areas.
But most grocery shops and dairies
in Jerusalem re-opened.
Police and army units also pro-
vided emergency transportation to
hospitals.
The situation was similar in
Galilee where most roads remain-
ed blocked by snow.
The fierce gales and snow-
storms forced the cancellation
of a scheduled meeting between

public works department, unused most of Israel and Sinai earlier of the heavy snow drifts. But sec-
to the heavy snow-12 inches this week, was postponed again tions of Galilee were still cut off,
blanketed the streets of Jerusalem Wednesday because the E gy ptians and food had to be brought to out-
Sunday night—nevertheless man- had not cleared their section of lying villages by helicopter. Druze
aged to clear the Shaar Hagai road the road. It was hoped that the tribesmen in the upper Galilee vil-
with heavy equipment, thus re- exchange could be resumed Thurs- lage of Reinhaniev embraced the
opening communications between day. The exchange was arranged helicopter pilot who landed Tues-
the capital and Tel Aviv.
by the International Red Cross, day with bread.
Their work was hindered by a which is supervising the operation.
The new storm did not prevent a
power blackout that darkened large Israel healds 4,500 Egyptian wedding from taking place on
large sections of the city when POWS, while Egypt has between schedule. Rabbi Isaac Stein, of
trees felled by the gale-force winds 10 and 15 captured Israeli pilots Safed, trudged five miles through
knocked down electric power lines. and marines.
the snow to an isolated village in
Traffic in and out of Jerusalem order to perform the ceremony.
News dispatches, including
moved
normally
Wednesday
f
o
r
No vehicle could get there. Said
those of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, were routed via Tel the first time in more than 24 the rabbi, "It was a hard walk
Aviv. Hol Israel, the government- hours, as roads were finally cleared, but a great mitzva."

owned broadcasting network,
was the only means of com-
munication during most of the
day. Schools were shut down and
shops closed. Hadassah Hospital
requested police assistance for
transportation i n emergency
cases.

While Jerusalem was probably
hardest hit by the storm, snow fell
heavily in the Golan Heights, in
Galilee and in Beersheba in the
the UN Mideast envoy Ambas- Negev. Tel Aviv on the coast was
buffeted by a hailstorm and suffer-
sador Gunnar Jarring, and
ed sub-zero temperatures, as did
Israel's Foreign Minister Abba
Jerusalem and many normally mild
Eban.
Ambassador Jarring's headquar- regions of the country. Shipping
ters at Nicosia, Cyprus, was noti- was at a standstill at Haifa ,
fied when it became apparent that Israel's largest seaport, where gale
winds ripped the roofs off some
the storm was not abating.
Ambassador Jarring conferred buildings. Safed, in the hills of
with Foreign Minister Abba Eban central Galilee, was buried under
in Jerusalem for an hour and a snow and was accessible only by
half Tuesday. No details of their vehicles having four-wheel drive.
Police were called upon to res-
talk were announced, but a note
of urgency seemed to surround the cue a group of school children
meeting largely because of the UN stranded in the hills near Jeru-
envoy's special efforts to reach salem. They had come from near
Jerusalem over roads made impas- Tel Aviv to see snow for the first
time in their lives. The youngsters
sable by the .heavy snow storm.
Ambassador Jarring was driven were taken to a nearby village and
from Lydda airport to the capital given hot drinks and beds for the
in a police jep, one of the few night.
The Egyptian-Israeli prisoner of
types of vehicles able to negotiate
the snowbound roads. It was be- war exchange, delayed by the
heavy
snowstorm that blanketed
lieved he was carrying proposals
from Egypt which needed a quick
Israeli reply.
Emergency crews of Jerusalem's

Sex Education Course
Permanent Addition
to Synagogue School

NEW YORK (JTA) — The rabbi
of a Manhattan synagogue which

tested an experimental program in
sex education for 10th grade stu
dents at its religious school said
this week that its success had led
to a decision to make the program
a permanent addition to the 10th
grade curriculum.
Rabbi Ray Soloff, spiritual
leader of the East End Temple,
said the goals of the project were
to advance the personal growth of
the student, demonstrate and rein-
force the use of Judaism as an
asset to the student in growth and
development, and to work directly
to equip the students to behave
effectively in specific situations.
Rabbi Soloff reported that the
project at the East End Temple
was started with an evaluation of
"Consecrated Unto Me; a Jewish
View of Love and Marriage." by
Reform Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn,
as providing "a new opportunity
and incentive for Reform synago-
gues in particular" to act on the

matter.

A meeting was held of congre:
gants who included pediatricians,
school principals, psychologists,
social workers and religious school
board members. The topic was
whether such a course should be
tried and how. A number of guide-
lines were approved. One was that
parents of children in the proposed

program should be fully informed
in advance. Another was that the
caliber of teachers handling such

"emotionally charged material" be

on the highest.

It was also agreed that the best
place to introduce such a course
would be in the confirmation class,
the tenth grade, where some sex
education and more preparation
for marriage could be integrated
"into the still larger perspective of
a course in psychology of personal

development." The framework of

the program would be to treat sex

as an aspect of the student's total
maturation_ Rabbi Soloff stressed.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 19, 1968-5

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