The Board of Directors
and Staff of
Hebrew Benevolent Society
Obituaries are updated regularly
and archived on JN Online:
www.detroitjewishnews.com
Wish its President
Rabbi Avie Shapiro
our profound condolences
on the recent passing of his mother
A Young Fighter
DORA SHAPIRO
May her memory be a blessing and may
you know of no more sorrow.
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Rabbi Boruch E. Levin
Executive Director
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Rabbi Joseph Hirsch
Vice President
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"The entire world is sustained by the Torah study o 'oung children".
During the coming week, the students of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah
will study in memory of the following departed friends.
In addition, Kaddish will be said during the daily minyan.
Teveth 21 / January 2
Jack Bookstein
Leo Finkelstein
Anne Harris
Simon Lefkowitz
Meriam Mayer
Bessie Rappaport
Herman Shorr
Harry C. Wolfe
Teveth 22 / January 3
Miriam Berris
Ida Boesky
Herman Eizen
Leya Griner
Rachel Kaiman
Rebecca Levin
Jacob Lieberman
Max Linovitz
Robert Margolis
Jacob Poss
Myron Rosenthal
Bella Rubin
Ann Gross Starr
Beatrice Vaccara
Teveth 23 / January 4
Herman K. Cohen
Israel Cohn
Sam Yuster
Allen M. Dinkin
David Hess
Harry Horowitz
Anna Lichtenstein
Beckie Mason
Sarah Repitor
Joe Scherr
Rosa Schloss
Celia Weingarden
Sarah Yunis
Teveth 25 / January 6
Louis Berman
Rebecca Colby
Rose Feldman
Allen Lawrence Leach
Jack Pasman
Joseph Spiegelman
Alfred Traurig
Fannie Weingarden
Teveth 24 / January 5
Eva Alpert
Ann Bard
Ida Blum
David Drazin
Kopel Dworkin
Esther Flayer
Charles (Tobias) Gellrnan.
Steven David Gross .
Isaac Henig
Archie Hoffman [Reprint]
Solomon Lumberg
Grant Lewis Mitchell
Harry Morrison
Babette Protetch
Hedwig Schloss
Samuel Weber
Jeanette Weiss
Teveth 26 / January 7
Sarah Lapinsky
Sadie Maltzman
Dr Jerry G. Margolis
Julius Nachman
Minnie Pechensky
Zelda Schwartz
Ruth Shapiro
Jacob Sukenic
Ruth Ungerleider
Issie Wrotslaysky
Teveth 27 / January 8
Harriet Jean Beale
Jerome Saul Coleman
Eleanor Greenwald
Stella Helfrand
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MSU basketball half-time shows.
"Sarah always made you laugh and
have fun — she was a person people
followed," Rosenberg said.
he world lost a good one," said
Another friend, Shayna Levine, told
Erin Rosenberg of her close
of meeting Sarah in the summer follow-
friend Sarah Gittleman, who
ing their freshman year at MSU and the
fought a valiant battle against a rare
friendship that developed. "She was a
form of leukemia.
diehard Spartan and loved sports,
Rosenberg, a friend since the sixth
grade, said Sarah was a person "who had Levine said. "She had every Michigan
),
State team poster that was distributed."
a special spark about her.
The two worked together on business
She was an amazing person. Wheri
class projects at MSU's Honors College.
she became sick, she never wanted peo-
As a student, Sarah was
ple to know that she
a volunteer for Habitat
was in pain."
for Humanity and also
MS: Gittleman, 23,
helped low-income
of Royal Oak, died
earners prepare tax
Dec. 21, 2004, at the
returns.
M.D. Anderson Cancer
At MSU, Sarah par-
Center in Houston.
ticipated in Hillel and
Growing up, Sarah
the study abroad pro-
stood out as a bright
gram. One of the high-
and vivacious member
lights of her academic
of her Huntington
career was working as a
Woods neighborhood.
tutor for student ath-
Countless children were
letes. Sarah served as
lucky enough to have
treasurer of the MSU
her as their babysitter.
accounting club.
A huge Jim Carrey Fan,
Friends celebrated her
she could be counted
affection for the school
upon to deliver a mean
Sarah Gittleman
by arranging for its
impression of his charac-
mascot, Sparty, to visit
ter from The Mask. She
her at home before she left for her bone
loved Halloween; and when she out-
marrow transplant in Houston.
grew trick-or-treating, she enjoyed
"Everyone will miss her impressions
accompanying cousins door-to-door.
and her passion for Michigan State,"
The special connection she had with
said Levine. "Mostly, though, we will
the community was in evidence last
August when hundreds of people joined miss her being the one that brought us
all together.
together to test for bone marrow com-
Those who knew Sarah will remem-
patibility at the West Bloomfield JCC
ber the radiance of her smile, her effer-
and scores later rallied for Sarah in a
vescent personality, her love of jokes and
Huntington Woods fund-raising walk.
good fun, friends agreed.
Physical fitness was always a big part
Sarah R. Gittleman is survived by her
of Sarah's life. She lettered in swimming
parents,
Ted and Barbara Gittleman; sis-
at Berkley High, and she also enjoyed
ter,
Laura
Gittleman; grandparents,
jogging and working out at the Oak
Natalie and Seymour Victor, Ilene
Park JCC's weight room.
Involvement in Jewish life was impor- Gittleman; aunts and uncles, Douglas
and Sheryl Victor, Adrienne Sheinwald,
tant to her. She joined the Brice Chap-
Neal Victor, Shelly Rossmoore, Ellen
ter of B'nai B'rith Girls and served as its
and Jack Tucker.
president and treasurer.
She was the granddaughter of the late
Always a hard worker, after gradua-
Stanford
Gittleman.
tion from Michigan State University last
Interment was at Clover Hill Park
year, Sarah began her accounting career
Cemetery. Contributions may be made
at a local firm and began studying for
to the Jewish Community Center of
the CPA exam.
Metropolitan Detroit, earmarked for
One of Sarah's interests was music. At
dance scholarships. Arrangements by Ira
an early age, she became involved in
Kaufman Chapel.
dance, and in college, she danced at the
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