Jews in the D
“Wrapped in Love,” the volunteer blanket-making group from National Council
of Jewish Women, Michigan just sent 32 sick children to Walt Disney World
in Orlando with their own Disney-themed blankets. Popular Fox 2 and WNIC
radio host Jay Towers has a program called Jay’
s Juniors, which give kids with
chronic and terminal illnesses, along with their families, a five-day, all-expens-
es-paid vacation during the holiday season. Wrapped in Love volunteers Marta
Gottesman (left) and Ruth Zerin (right) are pictured with Jay Towers at the
blanket drop off at iHeartMedia in Farmington Hills ahead of the trip.
Wrapped in Love
The Detroit Jewish com-
munity came out to support
Magen David Adom, Israel’
s
national EMS, blood-services
and disaster-relief organiza-
tion, as more than 300 people
attended a fundraising event
at Shaarey Zekek in Southfield
Oct. 24.
The event honored Sandy
and Jim Danto for their many
decades of providing vital
support to Magen David
Adom. Their philanthropic
gifts to the organization have
included the sponsorship of
ambulances and a laboratory
in MDA
’
s new national blood
services center, currently
under construction in Ramla,
Israel.
The event also featured
the dedication of two new
Medicycles, motorcycles mod-
ified and equipped to enable
medical first responders to
quickly get to the scenes of
medical emergencies to ini-
tiate treatment ahead of the
ambulance’
s arrival. The vehi-
cles were sponsored by the
Eugene Applebaum Family
Foundation and the Bruce
H. & Rosalie Rosen Family
Foundation. Magen David
Adom now has more than 620
of these lifesaving motorcycles
on the streets of Israel in addi-
tion to its 1,100 ambulances.
“Detroit has always been
a community that’
s made a
big philanthropic impact in
Israel,
” said David M. Frankel,
CEO of American Friends of
Magen David Adom. “
And
that’
s just as true for our orga-
nization, where Detroit-area
donors have made so many of
MDA
’
s initiatives and lifesav-
ing efforts possible.
”
Community Supports Magen David Adom
David M. Frankel, CEO of American
Friends of Magen David Adom,
presents Sandy and Jim Danto with
a tzedakah box in honor of their
decades of support of MDA and Israel
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