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Community Currents Preschoolers in the Rambam Day School of Savannah, Georpresident giaThe learn about of the World Marrow Donor Association, Professor the Aleph BaisJeff Szer, recently flew in from Australia to join Ezer Mizion’s Bone Marrow Registry in and their names.
On Sunday, October 13, the Yeshiva of Central Queens kicked off its Parent-Child Sunday Learning Program.
Ezer Mizion Celebrates One Million Registrants
celebrating the registration of the one millionth person in its registry. The celebration was attended by Israel’s Minister of Health and Minister of Defense as well as financial sponsors, stem cell donors, and recipients. During the event, three patients met the bone marrow donors whose transplant gave them life and hope, and Professor Szer spoke on “Marrow Transplantation as a Global Phenomenon: Current Status and Worldwide Trends.” Earlier this month, the Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation held its annual commemoration of Ramajor factor in theAgrowth of Ezerwas Mizion’s chelAImeinu’s yarzheit. buffet dinner held regat the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center on October 14. The istry is the willingness of Israel’s residents sign up a dramatic presentation on the relationship between Rakeynote speaker was Rabbi Jonathan Rietti to who gave chel Imeinu the nalrare Geulah. to save a life.and Extremely is the registrant who is found to be a match and refuses to help due to a busy schedule or fear of discomfort. Per capita, Israel has more registrants in a bone marrow registry than any other country. Prior to the founding of Ezer Mizion in 1979, the chances of a Jewish patient finding a match before it was too late was approximately eight percent. Cur- rently the chances are 76 percent.
Keynote Speaker Rabbi Jonathan Rietti and Evelyn Haies, founder and president of RCRF.
Yerushalayim’s Mayor Moshe Lion and top police officials recently pledged another upgrade in security for Har HaZeisim in recent meetings with Menachem Lubinsky, co-chair of the International Committee for Har Hazeisim (ICHH). He also pledged to continue cleaning up Har HaZeisim with regular sanitation and maintenance crews.
Rabbi Yechezkel Pikus, Chaim Deutsch, and Evelyn Haies.
Celebrating Purim with Rabbi Mordechai Jungreis of Nikelsberg.
Honorees pose behind the Jewish Mother’s Day cake donated by Pressers Bakery Avenue M. (L-R) Mark Langfan, Breaking the Silence Award; Rabbi Yechezkel Pikus, Rahel Imeinu Community Chessed Award; Evelyn Haies, Fran and Stephen Epstein Actualist Award; Esther Lamm, Young Leadership Award; and Mitchell Shapiro, esq., Rachel Imeinu Activist Award.
On October 2, Zicharon, an organization that assists people on issues relating to dementia, hosted an informative evening in Menorah Hall featuring renowned dementia experts who provided the audience with much-needed advice and information on dealing with this disease. Among the speakers were Rabbi Eliezer Kaminetzky; Dr. Gary Kennedy, chief of Geriatric Psychiatry at Monteore Medical Center; and Matt Kudish, senior vice president of caregiver services of the NY Chapter of the American Alzheimer’s Association.
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