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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