The holiday gift *

has received in donations
from a fund established by
Rabbi Martin Berman at
Congregation Beth Achim.
Among the items up for
sale are clothes, crafts,
records, books, furniture,
videos and household items.
The garage sale will also
feature a bake sale, an ar-
tist, psychic readers, enter-
tainment and a raffle.
Among the raffle prizes are a
leather jacket signed by the
cast of ABC's "Full House,"
a jacket featuring "The
Simpsons," and sweatshirts
from "Twin Peaks."
Those who want to donate
items can bring them to
Southfield Lathrup after 3
p.m. Dec. 1 or call organizer
Helene Gottfried, 358-1875,
said Mrs. Ehrlich, adding
that merchandise has been
coming in at a steady pace.
"We're getting a lot of do-
nations, but what we really
need is people to buy them,"
she said.
Meanwhile, the donor
search continues.
Because Mr. Cohen was
adopted as a baby, neither
his mother, Charlene
Ehrlich, nor his sister,
Sheila, 26, made compatible

donors. Instead, the search
for a donor has taken Mr.
Cohen to Youngstown, Ohio,
where a probate court gave
him permission to open
adoption records in the
hopes of finding his natural
family.
Although his natural
mother has not been found,
the search led to three half-
sisters, all of whom have
been tested, Mrs. Erhlich
said. None matched Mr.
Cohen's tissue type.
Doctors have also matched
Mr. Cohen's tissue types to
those found in the National
Bone Marrow Registry. The
registry holds the names and
tissue types of more than
100,000 potential bone
marrow donors. Chances of
finding an unrelated donor
are one in 20,000.
Although 70 names in the
registry came up as poten-
tial donors, none of the 40
people who have undergone
further tests were compati-
ble with Mr. Cohen's tissue
type, Mrs. Ehrlich said.
But she remains optimistic
that a donor will be found.
"We've been getting a lot
of support," she said. "His
spirits are high." ❑

Project Mezuzah Brings
Judaism To Soviets

SUSAN GRANT

Staff Writer

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merican families
have a chance to br-
ing a bit of Judaism
and friendship to some
Soviet immigrants through
Project Mezuzah.
The Acculturation Corn-
mittee of Jewish Experi-
ences For Families has
teamed up with Conser-
vative sisterhoods and Hillel
Day School to give newly
arrived Soviet families
handmade mezuzot to hang
on their door posts.
"It's an attempt to
welcome new arrivals to the
community," said Jeannie
Weiner, Project Mezuzah
chairman.
"Most Soviet families don't
have a mezuzah," said Sha-
ron Hart, acculturation
committee co-chairman.
"They were afraid in Russia.
They didn't want to do
anything overtly Jewish, to
have any identity as a Jew."
"They need a support
system with families," Ms.
Hart said. "That includes
explaining what a mezuzah
means and that it is safe to
identify yourself as Jews."
The community's Conser-
vative sisterhoods agreed to

pool their resources and pur-
chase mezuzah scrolls and
the casings, Ms. Hart said.
Then, at a meeting with
Rabbi Efry Spectre of Adat
Shalom Synagogue, Dr.
Mark Smiley, Hillel Day
School headmaster, heard
about Project Mezuzah and
decided to get involved, Ms.
Hart said. In September, the
sixth, seventh and eighth
grade Hillel students began
making 200 mezuzah cases.
Now the sisterhoods and
acculturation committee
need volunteers from the
Detroit Jewish community
to deliver the mezuzot to
Soviet families.
American families and in-
dividuals who wish to vol-
unteer are asked to attend
one of two training sessions,
Ms. Weiner said. The first
session will be held at 10
a.m. Dec. 4 at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek. There will
be another seminar at 7:30
p.m. Dec. 6 at Adat Shalom.
At the training session,
American families will learn
which Soviet immigrants
need mezuzot, based on a list
complied by the accultura-
tion committee and
sisterhoods. It will then be
their responsibility to call a
Soviet family and deliver a
mezuzah. ❑

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