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. T Rabbi Boruch E. Levin Executive Director )1 Rabbi Joseph Hirsch Vice President N EES, W NW my 924110 YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH School for Boys • Beth Jacob School for Girls • Early Childhood Development Center 15751 W. Lincoln Drive • Southfield, MI 48076 • (248) 557-6750 "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. 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"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 LEONARD POGER Copy Editor bet. Middlebelt & 14 Mile Rd.