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Detroit Friends ofALYN
Hospital to honor Gina
and Arthur Horwitz
for their support.

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Clockwise, from top:
Arthur and Gina Horwitz

Staff member communicates with a patient
through headphones.

A child shows off a custom-made wheelchair.

A small patient walks with help of a staff member.

A patient uses a hand-held device to run his com-
puter.

A long-time patient spends time with a young hos-
pitalized boy.

SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN
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Evening honoring the

Horwitzes will raise money

for children's orthopedic

hospital in Israel.

I

f Lori and Maurice Pagoda
abide by the Jewish good-luck
notion that traveling to Israel
with a dollar in tzedaka money
ensures a safe trip, then their recent
journey was protected 10,000 fold.
In April, the two carried with
them a special contribution in that
amount to be delivered personally to
the children of ALYN Hospital.

Sending a donation check with trav-
elers is a way to get people inside the
door, to see the good work being
done, explains Gina Horwitz,
incoming president of Detroit
Friends of ALYN Hospital.
Gina and her husband Arthur,
who will be honored at the organiza-
tion's annual dinner on Thursday,
May 25, were involved in the local
chapter even before there was one.
Eleven years ago, Carolyn Aronson,
then president of the Chicago

Friends of ALYN Hospital, called
Arthur for advice on how to publi-
cize the Israeli children's orthopedic
hospital in the Chicago Jewish news-
papers.
'As we talked about ALYN, I felt
there was an opportunity to see if we
would be able to generate a Detroit
chapter," says Arthur, publisher of
the Jewish News. "I knew we would
have no problem providing publicity
and exposure."
"People came out of the wood-

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