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Bargain Flights

Help Is Needed

Sarah Gittleman, 23, of Huntington
Woods urgently needs the communi-
ty's help. She recently contracted a rare
and aggressive form of leukemia that is
curable only through a bone marrow
transplant.
Sarah is a recent graduate of
Michigan State University and an
accountant at a Detroit area public
accounting firm. She had been living at
home with her parents, Barbara and
Ted Gittleman, and sister Laura but
the progress of her disease now con-
fines her to the hospital until a donor
can be found. Sarah will travel to MD
Anderson Cancer Center in Houston
for the transplant procedure.
To help locate a donor, the American
Red Cross-National Marrow Donor
Program (NMDP) will conduct bone
marrow screenings from 10 a.m.-4
p.m. Sunday, Aug. 15, at the Jewish
Community Center in West
Bloomfield.

To join the NMDP Registry,
potential donors must be between
ages 18 and 60, be in general good
health, fill out a health question-
naire and provide a small blood
sample (through a simple finger
prick) to determine tissue type. If a
tissue match is found, the potential
donor will be contacted for further
testing. For more information, see
the NMDP Web site:
wvvw.marrow.org
or contact Tarita Gibson at (313)
833-2624.
The cost to the Gittleman family
to conduct bone marrow screening
is $25 per person. Any donation to
the NMDP at the time of screen-
ing to help defray this expense
Sarah Gittleman: needs man-ow transplant.
would be greatly appreciated.
Sarah is the granddaughter of
Sheinwald, Ellen and Jack Tucker, and
Natalie and Seymour Victor and Ilene
Shelly Rossmoore.
Gittleman, and the niece of Doug and
—Keri Guten Cohen,
Sheryl Victor, Neal Victor, Adrienne
story development editor

Silver Anniversary

Ramat Gan university,
worker in rehabilitation
Goldstein has helped the
counseling in Haifa, Acco
Midwest region increase
and Tiberias. At the same
annual donations by 800
time, he went back to school
percent. The region, which
at Bar-Ilan for graduate
includes Detroit, Cleveland
work in rehabilitation coun-
and Chicago, contributes
seling.
$2.5 million to the univer-
He also met and married
Goldste in
sity each year.
the former Dora Harrar, a
Goldstein is proud of
native of Casablanca, and
that record, but most
then served two years in the
proud of his family. His wife has
Israel Defense Forces.
worked for 16 years at the Adat
The couple came to Michigan in
Shalom Synagogue nursery school;
1977, when Goldstein joined the
the couple's children, Dan and
B'nai B'rith Foundation.. Two years
later, he started his professional affil- Michelle, are U-M graduates.
— Alan Hitsky, associate editor
iation with Bar-Ilan.
In his 25 years working for the

Les Goldstein of West Bloomfield is
quietly marking a milestone this
month: 25 years as executive direc-
tor of the Midwest Friends of Bar-
Ilan University.
A Detroit native who grew up in
Oak Park and graduated from
Berkley High School, Goldstein was
a junior at the University of
Michigan in 1968-69 when he stud-
ied in Israel for a year at Hebrew
University.
After completing his degree at
Michigan the next year, he returned
to Israel and worked as a state social

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In addition to the four holy cities of Jerusalem,
Hebron, Safed and Tiberias, there were four cities
in Turkish Palestine that had significant Jewish
populations prior to the Zionist immigrations
which began in 1880. Can you name them?

— Goldfein

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Quotables

"Everything you read, Maimonides, Rashi — even
watching Yentl, for God's sake — you're taught to
question. .In Judaism, it's all about why. After why,
it's all about how."

— Fashion expert Hal Rubenstein, interviewed by
JTA at the New York office of his InStyle magazine
after UJA Federation of New York honored him at a
benefit to fight AIDS.

Always wanted to go to Israel, blit were
turned off by the cost? Well, start plan-
ning now for a Sept. 1-10 departure
from New York aboard Israel's "other"
airline, Israir.
The 9-year-old carrier, which began as
a domestic carrier between Tel Aviv and
Eilat, has been offering international
flights for the past five years. For persons
departing from New York's Kennedy
International Airport for Israel between
Sept. 1 and Sept. 10, Israir is offering
$767 round-trip tickets for nonstop
flights. Return flights must be within 14
days or there will be an additional
charge.
The same ticket on El Al would be
$5,428.
Israir operates three days a week, but
plans to have daily service from New
York to Tel Aviv by next year. To check
out the bargains, call (877) ISRAIR-1 or
wWw.israirairlines.com

— Alan Hitskfi associate editor

• The 13-14-year old JCC
Maccabi tennis players competing
in Columbus (Schedule, Detroit
Teams, Aug. 6, page 47) are:
Mitchell Adler, Michael Brodsky,
Alex Fishman, Dustin
Goldenberg, Darin Gross,
Brandon Kappy, Alex Simmons,
Josh Zeman.
• On the same page, all Ann
Arbor athletes are playing in
Columbus.

Do You Remember?

August 1984
Jewish residents in the West Bank held funerl
rites for religious articles found vandalized in the
Hebron flea market. Pages torn from prayerbooks
and other holy books were found with no clear
evidence of the defamers.
Six sacks were found as the army closed off the
area. The remnants were buried in the Jewish
cemetery in Hebron.

— Sy Manello, editorial assistant

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