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Gifts totaling about $175,000
enable Federation to underwrite hospice
services in four central Galilee towns.
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DIANA LIEBERMAN
Staff Writer
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he Torah stresses two values
in health care, says Rabbi
E.B. "Bunny" Freedman of
Oak Park. One is curing
people; the other is keeping them free
of pain.
This second goal is, in many ways,
the more difficult to achieve, said Rabbi
Freedman, a member of the steering
committee for the Milton and Lois
Shiffman Home Hospice in the Valleys,
located in Israel's central Galilee. The
hospice, which provides care and corn-
fort for patients who are beyond cure, is
a joint project of the Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit and Madonna
University in Livonia.
Three years in the planning, the
hospice began providing services to
terminally ill Israeli patients and their
families in January. About 50 families
have been served so far.
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The Partnership 2000
hospice program allows
Detroit-area experts to
Members of the Partnership 2000 November hospice mission are shown visiting the central Galilee town of
Zippori. They are: Sister Mary Cecelia Eagen, Ilene Techner, Dr. Patricia Vint, David Techner, Dr. John Finn,
medical director of the Hospice of Michigan, Rabbi E.B. "Bunny" Freedman and Dr. Barry Kinzbrunner,
national medical director of Vitas Healthcare Corp.
share their knowledge
with medical providers in
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