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Aiding country torn by war Locals collect money, send supplies to besieged Ukrainians years ago, but remained in contact with Chaplinskyy. They have been friends for over 50 A call from one boyhood years, Firdman said. “I was born friend to another in the first in Ukraine, I g rew up in weeks of the Russian invasion Ukraine,” Firdman said. “Like of Ukraine, in early March, all normal people, I want to help sparked a quick col— especially people lection of $20,000 that need the help.” that helped buy porWithin two weeks t abl e a n e s t h e s i a after they spoke, the machines and pulse money the hospital oximeters that were needed was raised sent to the Regional using Venmo. GradiClinic Licarnya in an Health Systems, a Kharkiv. nonprofit medical “I knew what technology company, was going on from partnered with Diathe very beginning medica UK Ltd. to of the war, and he supply the equipcalled me kind of ment. Rohlog SUUS panicking,” WoodLogistics, a partner mere resident Dr. of Gradian, coordiVadim Firdman, a nated shipment and dentist with offices d e l ive r y o f t h e in Lynbrook and equipment to ChapDR. VADIm Brooklyn, said of linskyy’s hospital. his childhood friend FIRDmAN “We believe that Dr. Rostylav Chapbecause of the partlinskyy, who is head nerships we’ve of anesthesiology at the hospital developed with people like Dr. in Kharkiv. “He said they were Chaplinskyy and Dr. Firdman, down to four units of anesthesia we can help address some of the and they were struggling with a ongoing health care needs exaclack of equipment.” erbated by the crisis,” Nicole Firdman, 57, who was born Lund, Gradian’s North America and grew up in Ukraine, immi- logistics manager wrote in an grated to the United States 20 Continued on page 20
By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
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FRom tHE StAGING area to the vehicles lined up for the food orders, the SKA campus was a beehive of activity last Sunday.
Doing a good thing for many Volunteers serve over 500 Passover meals By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
More than 50 volunteers filled over 375 alphabetized food orders and placed them in a makeshift staging area in the parking of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls campus in Hewlett Bay Park last Sunday. The Passover meals, for people in need across western Long Island, from Merrick to the Five Towns and even Brooklyn, Queens and Great Neck, were packed in boxes and readied for pickup as vehicles began rolling
in at around 1 p.m. The effort was sponsored by the Hewlettbased Leon Mayer Fund and its Mark Ramer Chesed Center, in association with Kosher Response. “This has been in planning for months already,” said Gabriel Boxer, of Hewlett, who heads Kosher Response, a charitable program he created at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, “and if you’re aware of what’s going on in the market today, [it’s difficult] for us just to be able to get chicken, Continued on page 22
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