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anis Roszler was stumped.
Then concerned.
Very concerned.
Ezra Fantaye, the 18-year-
old Ethiopian boy Ms. Roszler
had befriended during the 1993
Michigan Miracle Mission to Is-
rael, seemed to have vanished.
Her overseas pen pal just had
stopped writing.
Ms. Roszler, who lives in sub-
urban Detroit with her husband,
Myer, and four children, couldn't
understand what went wrong.
Ezra had corresponded with her

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get their feet on the ground.
At Hadassim, many of the
young olim were Ethiopian. Sev-
eral were from problem homes.
Some even wore rebellious fash-
ion statements, like nose-rings
and earrings.
Ezra, a quiet boy, wore a
Michael Jackson T-shirt. Ms.
Roszler asked him if he would
like the latest Michael Jackson
cassette tape. Sure, he said. Once
back in America, she sent it.
Ezra immediately returned a
letter of thanks, and the corre-

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family for 18 months and the
family considered him almost
one of its own.
"He was a very frequent
writer," she says. "He always
sent my kids individual letters
and picture postcards. His
notes were simple (he wrote in
English), but very sweet."
`The whole relationship was
very exciting because we were
making a connection with an
Ethiopian Jew, a new member
of our (Jewish) family. We emo-
tionally adopted him, and I think
he emotionally felt adopted."
The companionship started at
Hadassim, an Israeli youth-
aliyah village. A bus load of De-
troiters on the Miracle Mission
visited with teen-agers living
there two years ago.
In Israel, it is customary for
immigrant children to tem-
porarily reside in aliyah villages
where they become acculturated
while their parents find jobs and

spondence went on for many
months. Last summer, the fam-
ily sent Ezra a high-school grad-
uation gift, but they received no
word from him. After months, the
package came back — unopened.
Ms. Roszler imagined the
worst. Ezra, she knew, had en-
tered the army. He had been
looking forward to it. His dream
was to become one of the elite
paratroopers.
"He was always very, very ex-
cited about going into the army,