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Remembering The Victims

College students embark on memorial campaign
for those lost to violence in Israel.

SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN

"I feel a closeness to klal Yisrael, the
Jewish nation," says Rothstein, a grad-
uate of Yeshivat Akiva in Southfield,
fter witnessing the effects of
and now a junior at Stern College for
terrorism during a January
Women of Yeshiva University.
Israel solidarity trip, a group of
"Kol Yisrael areyvim zeh bazeh, each
American college students created a
and every Jew is responsible for one
plan for a unique, ongoing memorial
another. I felt a responsibility to show
to the victims.
my fellow brothers and sisters in Israel
The group participated in
that I care about them, and I feel for
Operation Torah Shield II,
those who have unfortunately
specifically designed to help
been affected by the terror."
lend support to victims of
Rothstein sees Kol
terror. Upon their return, the
Haneshama as a way to "per-
200 New York City-based
sonalize the tragedy that has
Yeshiva University students
occurred."
launched Kol Haneshama
Says Naphtali Weisz, a project
(Every Soul), a nationwide
coordinator from Columbus,
newspaper campaign to
Ohio: "Kol Haneshama is not
memorialize those victims.
only a very exciting national
'As a result of the trip,
project, but is an important
Mindy
many of us were inspired to
local initiative as well. It pro-
Rothstein 20
do something back home,"
vides a way for every communi-
says Mindy Rothstein, 20, of of Southfield
ty to do something for Israel."
Southfield, the only student-
High school students have
participant from Michigan..
been recruited to create the profiles.
Disturbed by the thought that the vic- "(They) will get to know the families of
tims would be forgotten, she says, "We
the terror victims and form a relation-
proposed a national remembrance cam-
ship with them," says Judah Elbaum, a
paign to our fallen brothers and sisters."
project coordinator from Baltimore, who
And so, the project was born. The
sees the campaign as an opportunity to
printed memorial, updated monthly,
unite Jewish youth in support of Israel.
highlights the lives of victims.
Biographies also will be posted on
Beginning this week, some newspapers
the Kol Haneshama Web site, still
across the country will donate space to
under construction, with links to sites
publish personal biographies of vic-
that provide ways to assist families of
tims, along with their photographs.
terror victims.

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