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A 15-year-old Yisrael Pinson receives a dollar and a precious moment with the

Rebbe (the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson) in Brooklyn, 1991.

Vaccine Express

Grieving mother arranges bus trips to
Canada to guard against meningitis B.

Robin Schwartz I Contributing Writer

am one of many thousands of peo-
A few of these
ple from all walks of life who were
stories from local
privileged to have had a personal
residents are shared
here; more will be
encounter with the Rebbe.
My first personal audience was a
shared at Chabad
of Michigan's
few months before my third birthday,
during which the Rebbe gifted me
Vision, Song and
with a siddur that I still use. At 13,
Inspiration event on
Rabbi Yisrael
I was called to the Torah for my bar
June 23; and even
Pinson
mitzvah in the Rebbe's personal min-
more are found in
yan, the aliyah prior to his.
the pages of two
And since age 11 in 1987 until
new books.
1993, I spent
The Rebbe was a
greater-than-life fig-
four weeks a year
Inside:
with the Rebbe,
ure, yet he connected
• Local recollec tions, page 8
from before Rosh
personally with
Hashanah until
every single person
• Books reviewe d, page 12
he met. Through his
after Simchas
Torah.
shluchim (emissar-
Those moments with the Rebbe are
ies) here and around the world, the
unforgettable and have left a lifelong
Rebbe continues to reach out with
mark on me — and on the thousands
love to every single Jew. I'm hon-
who also experienced them.
ored and privileged to be part of the
Rebbe's army here in Michigan.
As we approach the Rebbe's 20th
yahrzeit on 3 Tammuz (July 1), we
look back to those moments for inspi-
— Rabbi Yisrael Pinson, Chabad of
ration to continue the Rebbe's legacy
Greater Downtown Detroit
of love to every Jew.

CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

W

hen Alicia Stillman
of West Bloomfield
recently held a tiny
box containing the Bexsero men-
ingitis B vaccine in her hands in
Windsor, Ontario, she burst into
tears. Her daughter, Emily, 19, a
Kalamazoo College sophomore, died
in February 2013 from meningitis
B, an aggressive strain of the bacte-
rial disease not currently covered by
vaccines in the United States.

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Leading a vaccination drive to prevent others from

dying from meningitis B, the disease that claimed their
daughter Emily's life, are Alicia and Michael Stillman.

