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Making a difference to children around the world:
SACH cardiologist to speak at Choices By Louise Rachlis Pediatric cardiologist Dr. Livia Kapusta remembers sitting with a beautiful 16-year-old Chinese girl who could hardly walk. The girl’s lips and fingers were blue because of a lack of oxygen. “I realized how much this girl must have suffered all these years, not only physically, but also mentally,” the doctor, who was part of a Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) mission to China, told the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin in a telephone interview from Israel. “And, in Canada, such a girl would have been treated just after birth and would have had a healthy life. Yes, this world can be unfair sometimes.” Kapusta will be the keynote speaker, October 24, at the annual Choices event of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s Women’s Campaign. Kapusta works with SACH as a
senior consultant in pediatric cardiology at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel. SACH is an Israel-based international humanitarian project providing lifesaving heart surgery and follow-up care for children from developing countries, with the aim to create centres of competence in those countries. To date, SACH has saved the lives of 3,000 children from 42 countries. Half of them have been Palestinian children. Before joining SACH, Kapusta and her husband had supported the organization for many years. “Not only does SACH give life to children from countries that do not have the medical possibilities as we have in Israel,” she said, “but it shows that Israel is also made up of people. People who like to do well. People who like to cross borders and bridge gaps, in (Continued on page 2)
Pediatric cardiologist Dr. Livia Kapusta of Save a Child’s Heart, seen here with a mother a child she is treating, will speak in Ottawa, October 24, at the Choices event.
Study: Young pro-Israel activists are ideologically and religiously diverse By Neil Rubin (JTA) – Jewish student leaders may be strident in their Israel advocacy, but they are tolerant in defining pro-Israel activism and diverse in their political views. Those are among the major findings of a new survey being billed as the first major study of North American young adult leaders involved in pro-Israel advocacy. Of the 4,000 or so Israel advocates age 30 and younger who were surveyed, 87 per cent said they welcomed “multiple perspectives” on the pro-Israel spectrum. Ideologically
speaking, 45 per cent self-identified as either politically liberal or slightly liberal; 30 per cent said they were conservative or slightly conservative; and 21 per cent called themselves moderate. Four per cent said they were extremely conservative and two per cent said they were extremely liberal. The respondents came from diverse religious backgrounds, too: 37 per cent said they were Conservative Jews, 27 per cent Orthodox, 18 per cent Reform and 16 per cent “other Jewish.” The study, titled Next Generation Advoca-
cy: A Study of Young Israel Advocates, was released late last month by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. It was conducted by Ezra Kopelowitz and Daniel Chesir-Teran of Research Success Technologies. “There’s a sense that young advocates come from a particular political persuasion, that they’re shrill and that there’s polarization,” Lisa Eisen, the director of the Schusterman Foundation, told JTA. “They are very diverse, sophisticated and non-ideological, which is not something that most people
would imagine.” Divisive activists are part of the spectrum, Eisen acknowledged, but they “are way out on the margin.” Those surveyed were leaders of such organizations as Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Hillel, iCenter, the Israel on Campus Coalition, Moishe House, The David Project, Write On For Israel, Hasbara Fellowships, MASA Israel Journey, Stand With Us and the BBYO group for teenagers. (Continued on page 2 )
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