THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

18 October 17, 1975

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Israel's New Sky-Diving Team Faces Problems

By CHARLOTTE DUBIN

Former Jewish News City Editor

JERUSALEM — The Is-
rael National Sky-Diving
Team is led by a South Afri-

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can-born immigrant, Brian
Street, who formed Israel's
first and only sky-diving
club a few years back. Other
members were an assort-
ment of sabras trained by
Street, three South African-
born jumpers and Marvin
Green.
Green, a 39-year-old
mathematician who made
aliya from the U.S. a year
ago, brought with him a
unique expertise: 1,800 par-
achute jumps. (By compari-
son, Israel's top man in sky
diving has fewer than 1,-
000.)
A former professor of to-
pology at Washington D.C.'s
Georgetown University,
Green came on the Israel
sports parachuting scene
only months before the club
was invited to Germany for
the "First World Relative
Work Championship."

The team had been told
that Germany was eager
for Israelis to take part in
the first competition to be
held there since the tragic
Munich Olympics. So
eager, in fact, that the
team's Israeli contact with
Germany assured them
that the German govern-
ment was prepared to pay
all fees for their participa-
tion, as well as plane fare.

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Green recalls that the
group was so excited at the
prospect of a free trip to
Germany they took in stride
the innumerable red-tape
snafus, and the animosity of
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butz which turned on the
cotton field sprinklers or
sent up crop-dusting planes
when the team wanted to
make practice jumps.
The air force wasn't too,
happy about "interference"
from a sports plane, and the
pilot who agreed to take the
men out on exercises wasn't
too reliable about showing
up on time.
The German govern-
ment's "promise" to pay all
fees for the Israelis had
been a figment of the con-
Israel National Sky-Diving Team
tact's imagination.
Israel's national team was
stunned, but they came up scious in a freak collision
There was no word of the
with the money needed.
with the chute of another competition in the Israeli
Other problems included jumper.
media. But Jordan Televi-
losing one member for
Yet he pulled the rip cord sion showed videotaped por-
breaking the team rule and the parachute flared tions of the championship
against having wives on the open. He came awake at 7,- without referring to Israel's
trip.
000 feet.
role.
Once, during the compe-
Compared to the other 19
The 20-man American
tition, while attempting to teams, dapper in the colors Free Fall Exhibition Team
form the required "star"
of their respective countries, approached Green and said
in less than 40 seconds, the Israelis were "a ragged- they would like to form a
Street was knocked uncon-
looking team in blue-jeans." Star of David in Israel's
honor.
"They drew it on paper,
walked through it once,
then went up and did it,"
Green recalled. Twenty par-
By BEN GALLOB
privileges come from six achutists jumped from a
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buildings, on their own or plane and, by varying their
accompanied by volunteers. body movements and falling
A Philadelphia Orthodox
Additonal services are held speeds, formed a six-pointed
rabbi, who serves as Jewish
in four other buildings.
star in a remarkable air bal-
chaplain for the Norristown
He described the 10- to let.
State Hospital for mental
15-minute weekly service as
Although the Israelis fin-
patients in Pennsylvania,
neither
Reform,
Conserva-
ished
in last place, they did
has developed and directs a
tive nor Orthodox. He said gain valuable experience in
major year-around program
the occasion was "a gather- world competition.
of religious services and hol-
ing of mental patients of the
iday festivals for the hospi-
Jewish
faith with their Or-
tal's 140 Jewish patients,
thodox rabbi to hear and
tailored to their differing
repeat some of the prayers
capacities to participate.
of
the synagogue and to sing
Rabbi Sherman Novo-
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Cong. Beth Tovim, not only partake of grape juice and
cake at a kidush."
leads weekly services on
Rabbi
Novoseller
Tuesday mornings at the
hospital but he and his wife stressed that because his
have been hosts for Passover "congregants" were men-
tal patients, his attitude is
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and "not to preach to them
reported.
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He also led Rosh Has- a sermon of repentance."
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He
said
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Shavuot has been ob-
tant
point
to
understand
in
served with a special
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bringing a message to men-
kosher dinner for the pa-
tal patients is to remember
tients, which included ge-
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time." He reported similar
ents. Accordingly, "holding
meals were served on Rosh
a 10-minute service requires
Hashana, Hanuka and
the full cooperation of many
Purim. During the sum-
people on the hospital
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Rabbi Novoseller reported
that he came to the hospital
in June, 1973, as a volunteer
chaplain to fill out the sick
leave of Rabbi Henry Har-
bater, who had served as
chaplain for 10 years before
settling in Israel. In Decem-
ber, the post was declared
vacant and Rabbi Novoseller
was named chaplain.
He said that when he
came to the huge hospital,
services were held for Jew-
ish patients in a central
building, No. 33, which has
a 200-seat chapel. Jewish
patients who have "ground"

Prof Trains Dogs
to Sniff Out Bombs

RAMAT GAN, Israel —
Prof. Robert Lubow of the
University of North Caro-
lina, with the assistance of
Bar-Ilan University, has
trained dogs to sniff out
explosives contained in let-
ter bombs.
Previously, Prof. Lubow
had achieved national fame
in the U.S. by successfully
training pigeons to distin-
guish between natural and
man-made objects on aerial
reconnaissance photos, and
dogs to detect mines and
booby traps in Vietnam.

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