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A Match For Life
A Huntington Woods girl, 4,
needs a bone-marrow transplant for her survival.
JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR
Lauren Cohn
needs a bone-
marrow
transplant.
PHOTO BY DANIEL LIPPITT
STAFF WRITER
Neighborhood Might
Southfield police are fighting harassment and nuisance crimes,
but residents need to help out, too.
JULIE EDGAR STAFF WRITER
arc Herschfus realizes you can't Margaret Alper and or fortitude, is necessary, Dr. Herschfus
put out a brushfire with a water Diana Peagler were said.
hose. among 150 at
And he believes there are ways that ob-
Without a citizenry commit- Tuesday's meeting. servant Jews, some of whom have lately
been the target of taunts and assaults on
ted to policing its turf— with two-way ra-
dios, mobile watch units and cell phones, if need their way to and from shut in Southfield, can de-
be — police can offer only temporary and spotty so- fend themselves without violating Halachah (Jew-
lutions to crime in the neighborhood. A bit of chizuq, HARASSMENT page 18
L
auren Cohn adores her
brand-new, curly-haired
doll, Samantha. She loves
her little sister, Emily, and
her best friend of the day,
Sarah.
In the presence of a stranger,
she shyly buries her head in her
mother's lap, emerging when
the talk turns to food. Goldfish
crackers, it seems, weigh heav-
ily on her mind.
By all accounts, Lauren is a
typical 4-year-old.
"She wants to be a normal
kid, " said Kathy Cantor Cohn,
Lauren's mom. "She wants to
go to camp. She wants to go to
school."
But this summer will not be
spent at camp. Instead, Lauren
will pass the long, hot days
waiting for the end of an inter-
national search for someone
who has the exact same bone
marrow as she, someone who
has the potential to save her
young life.
You see, Lauren has acute
lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), a
cancer of the blood. She has had
it for more than half her life.
During the time since her
mother noticed bruising and
pink specks on Lauren's 2-year-
old legs, the young Huntington
Woods resident has endured an
aggressive protocol of treat-
ment, including chemotherapy,
drug therapy and a variety of
other procedures, all designed
to force her cancer into remis-
sion. While many adults and
children suffer from such tor-
tuous procedures, Lauren made
it through without complaint,
losing only a few wisps of her
short, dark hair.
Perhaps the only thing that
bugged Lauren about having
cancer was that she wasn't able
to play with other children who
had not already had the chick-
en pox. That virus, a difficult ill-
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Plebiscite Envy
Israelis abroad are keeping tabs on historic election.
DAVID ZEMAN STAFF WRITER
W
hen Israeli elections
take place later this
month, Jeff Kaye will
employ everything but
a satellite dish on his head to stay
abreast of the latest returns.
"r11 be glued to the computer,
the radio, the television and the
telephone," Mr. Kaye, the shall-
ach, or Israeli emissary, for metro
Detroit said matter-of-factly of
his election-day plans.
It is a measure of Israelis' fas-
cination with political cam-
paigning and of the historic -,.,-J
implications of the upcoming elec- f,,
tions that Mr. Kaye's keen inter- c'is
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Raviv Schwartz
follows Israeli
politics by computer.