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Tune in on Channel 11 2:30 p.m. June 16th & 23rd for THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA'S Eye-Opening Television Specials featuring: AMBASSADOR YORAM ARIDOR AND OUTSTANDING AMERICAN JEWISH PERSONALITIES SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON: — Secretary Baker's obsession with "settlements" — The Arab boycott, The Jordanian Option, — Israel's insistence on direct, face to face negotiations with the Arabs — The true meaning of U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338 JOIN ZOA — Help us fight the anti-Israel campaign of misinformation — Phone 569-1515 for a membership-application. ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA, 18451 West 10 Mile, Southfield, Michigan 48075 Boutique So much shopping, so little time! 62 FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1991 TZVI DOLE WEST BLOOMFIELD MICHIGAN Orchard Lake Road • North of Maple T his spring gave cancer patient Meir Shor and his family plenty to celebrate. A bone marrow donor had been found with perfectly matched tissue typing for the 16-year-old. And it look- ed as if the chemotherapy treatment was working so well that the bone marrow transplant might not even be necessary. The chances of survival for Meir (pronounced MAY-er) — a former student of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim in Monsey, N.Y. — looked good, doctors said. Relieved by the news, Meir's father had begun working on the creation of a New York-based national Jewish leukemia foundation to help other families sear- ching for compatible bone marrow donors. On May 30, however, Zvi Shor's full attention was back on Meir. After some tests, doctors at New Jersey's Hackensack Medical Center discovered the Orthodox teenager's leukemia was back — and in full force. This week Meir was ad- mitted to Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where an ex- perimental medication from China will be used to treat his acute myelogenous leuke- mia, his father said. Doctors hope to stabilize Meir's condition in the next four to six weeks, Mr. Shor said. Meir and his compati- ble donor, whose identity has remained confidential, will then fly to the Hutchin- son Medical Center in Seat- tle, where the bone marrow transplant will be perform- ed. While not guaranteeing a return to perfect health, the operation greatly improves Meir's chances of survival, especially since his tissue type is exactly matched by his donor's, Mr. Shor said. Allison Atlas, a Jewish leukemia patient who made news around the country last year with a $3 million unsuccessful search for a compatible donor, underwent a transplant at the Seattle Center in Aug. 1990, using her mother's imperfectly matched Tzvi Dole is a staff reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. marrow. She has been back home since February in Bethesda, Md., recuperating slowly but steadily, family members say. The National Marrow Do- nor Program, based in Saint Paul, Minn., has the tissue typing of 330,000 people in its computerized registry, including 50,000 names added through the efforts of the Atlas family and close to 3,000 more added in the Shor family's drives. Labor- atory tissue typing costs $75 per person. But there are about 14,000 leukemia patients in the United States as well as 200 Jews in Israel unable to locate a compatible bone marrow donor in the Ameri- can data bank, Meir's Israeli-born father said. To try to address this need, Mr. Shor is presently work- ing to create two non-profit organizations. One is an ad- ditional New York donor center for tissue typing to supplement existing efforts by the New York Blood Center. The other is a Na- tional Jewish Children's Leukemia Foundation to assist Jewish patients stricken with the disease. Financial support for these organizations has been hard to find, Mr. Shor said. But he remains optimistic, both about his most pressing con- cern — his son's survival — and his proposed organiza- tions. "Everyone I spoke to — the UJA (United Jewish Appeal) and the rabbis —are very positive about it," Mr. Shor said. For more information, call (718) 853-0510. . ❑ Israel, China Science Accord Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel and China signed a scientific cooperation agreement in Jerusalem giving formal, binding status to a memo- randum of understanding exchanged a year ago bet- ween the Israeli and Chinese academies of science. The signatory for the People's Republic of China was Professor Sun Honglie, deputy president of the Academy of Science in Beij- ing, and the most senior Chinese official to visit Israel to date. Israel was represented by Professor Joshua Jortner, president of the Israeli Academy of Science.