HEARTBEAT Spring 2009 - American Committee for Shaare Zedek ...

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HEARTBEAT 

American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem 

49 West 45 th Street • New York, NY 10036 

1-800-346-1592 • www.acsz.org 

I SRAEL IS COUNTING ON US...TO CURE AND TO CARE 

Bringing Smiles to Our Youngest 

Patients and Friends 

In a ceremony featuring the Glaubach 

clan and members of the larger Shaare Zedek 

family, the Glaubach Department of Pediatric 

Emergency Medicine, which began operating 

several months prior to the festivities and is 

already providing the highest level of urgent 

care for children in Jerusalem and the surrounding 

areas, was officially dedicated. 

At over 8000 square feet, the Department 

is more than ten times the size of the Pediatric 

Emergency Room it replaces. As Jerusalem’s 

NATIONAL DINNER HONOREES 

PROF. JONATHAN HALEVY, 

MENNO RATZKER AND RABBI 

MORRIS I. ESFORMES 

Full story inside on page 11 

Drs. Felix and Miriam Glaubach at 

the official Dedication of the 

Glaubach Department of Pediatric 

Emergency Medicine 

GLAUBACH FAMILY DEDICATES SPECTACULAR NEW PEDIATRIC ER 

only major centrally located hospital, Shaare 

Zedek is regularly called upon to treat the 

myriad ailments that effect the children of 

the city. 

Shaare Zedek Director-General Jonathan 

Halevy saluted the generosity of Drs. Felix 

and Miriam Glaubach for whom the Department 

is named. “This is the first phase of the 

Wilf Children’s Hospital and through the 

kindness and vision of the Glaubach Family, 

continued on page 14 

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SPRING 2009 


Highlights 

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Profiles in Giving 

Murray and Linda Laulicht, Nader and 

Fred Ohebshalom and Heidi Rothberg 

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Highlights from the Hospital 

Making a Difference 

One Patient at a Time 

OTHER FEATURES: 

Mission to South Africa 2008 

Bill Lowenberg Makes Historic 

Return to Poland 

Around the Regions 

In memory of Chazzan Robert R. 

Frankel, z”l 

Giving the Gift of Life

COMMITTEE FOR 

SHAARE ZEDEK 

MEDICAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM 

NATIONAL BOARD 

Sidney Adler 

Treasurer Emeritus 

Michael G. Jesselson 

Chair 

Menno Ratzker 

Vice Chair 

Jack C. Bendheim 

President 

Phil Friedman 

Vice President 

Ronald Abrams 

Treasurer 

Abby Ellison Kanarek 

Secretary 

Gabe Erem 

Harvey Felsen 

Rabbi David Fuld 

Aryeh Guttenberg 

Alan Hirmes 

Laura Huberfeld 

Dr. Ronald Krinick 

Esther Lerer 

Dr. Larry Lerner 

William Lowenberg 

Dr. Larry Platt 

Kurt Rothschild 

Michelle Stein 

Louise Kirschner Wolinetz 

Professor Jonathan Halevy 

Director-General 

Shaare Zedek Medical Center 

Paul S. Glasser 

Executive Vice President 

Lee Weinbach 

President, Women’s Division 


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Israel 


PO Box 3235 

Jerusalem, Israel 91031 

Phone: 02-666-6622 

Email: pr@szmc.org.il 

http://www.szmc.org.il/eng 

The Canadian Shaare Zedek Foundation 

3089 Bathurst St., Suite 205 

Toronto, ON M6A 2A4 

Phone: 416-781-3584 

Fax: 416-781-6439 

Email: foundation@hospitalwithaheart.ca 

http://www.hospitalwithaheart.ca/ 

Shaare Zedek UK 

766 Finchley Rd. 

Temple Fortune, London NW11 7TH 

United Kingdom 

Phone: 44-208-201-8933 

Fax: 44-208-201-8935 

Email: office@shaarezedek.org.uk 

http://www.shaarezedekuk.com 

Shaare Zedek Holland 

Kloet 3 

Hardinxveld-Giessendam 

Holland 

Phone: 018-461-2632 

Email: info@shaarezedek.nl 

http://www.shaarezedek.nl/

HEARTBEAT American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem 

A Message from the Desk of the Executive Vice President 

In these pages you will have a chance to see the vibrancy and the 

vitality of the efforts of the American Committee for Shaare Zedek 

Medical Center in Jerusalem. You will also read about some of the 

happenings at the Hospital which really highlight the superiority of 

our staff and the medical treatment Shaare Zedek provides. Never 

before has the support for our beloved Hospital been so magnanimous 

and the constituencies so broad. 

Look through the pages of this newsletter and you will see 

supporters of every age making Shaare Zedek their priority, 

whether through a major gift, national events, the purchase of 

new equipment, joining our missions, touring the Hospital, or 

regional events around the country to name a few. You will find 

pages full of people who feel that supporting Shaare Zedek is 

a reflection of their own priority in charity and who have been 

moved for one reason or another to become a part of our family. 

And what a family it is! 

And now to the “however”. Over these many months we 

have all been effected in some way by the economic downturn, 

a situation that is having a major impact on the $300 billion 

business of philanthropy in the U.S., not to mention the charitable 

activities around the world. Many potential contributors 

have trimmed their charity budgets while others are refraining 

from taking on new causes. At Shaare Zedek we have found 

Visiting Israel 

Please visit Shaare Zedek—“The Hospital with a Heart.” 

If you are going to be in Israel, please join us for a private tour of the Hospital. 

Prior to your visit contact your local Shaare Zedek office. In Israel, call 

011-972-2-666-6622 or email pr@szmc.org.il to set up an appointment. 

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that our major donors have been wonderful about meeting their 

commitments and in some cases increasing their giving. We deeply 

appreciate such support especially in these turbulent times. As an 

organization we have seriously downsized our own expense 

budget. We hope that you will agree that Shaare Zedek remains 

a central force of healing for the citizens of Jerusalem and will 

assist us as we support the State of Israel. Although times are 

incredibly difficult, we appreciate those who have stepped forward 

with courage and care. 

We are sensitive to all individual situations, but if you can 

assist us either with your own gift, a planned giving option or 

if you can identify someone with whom the message of Shaare 

Zedek would resonate, please feel free to call me personally at 

212-764-8113 and let’s begin a conversation. It can make a 

difference for tens of thousands of people in Jerusalem and Israel. 

Remember, Israel is Counting On Us ….To Cure and To Care! 

Q Paul S. Glasser

H I G H L I G H T S F R O M 

NICU Physician 

Finds A Whole New Way 

to Save A Life 

For more than three decades, Professor Michael Schimmel has been a regular 

presence in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Shaare Zedek. During that 

time, he has been personally responsible for supervising the care that has literally 

nursed thousands of babies, most born prematurely, back to health and prepared them 

to take on the outside world. 

Yet, through a combination of fate and his willingness 

to help, Professor Schimmel was recently able to save the life 

of someone far older than the patients he typically is called 

upon to treat, by donating bone marrow to an anonymous 

woman suffering from leukemia. 

Professor Schimmel had given a blood sample more than 

a year earlier, through one of the blood sample drives organized 

by a local organization. Several months later, the word came 

that he was indeed a match for a woman with leukemia. After 

consulting with many of the experts in the field from Shaare 

The extensive story in a special health section of the 

paper, Israel’s most widely read daily, gave particular attention 

to Shaare Zedek, leading off with quotes from Dr. Todd 

Zalut, Director of the ER and prominently featuring a large 

picture taken at Shaare Zedek. 

In the report, the ER was described as clean, with clear 

and prominent signage. The journalist, whose real identity 

was unknown to the medical staff to ensure he did not receive 

“special treatment”, reported experiencing very short waiting 

times. “Very respectful and patient” were words used in 

Undercover Published Report 

Describes Care in 

Shaare Zedek ER as “Excellent” 

In an article published on December 21st in Yediot Aharonot, where a reporter 

went undercover to experience care in eleven of Israel’s largest emergency 

departments, the Weinstock Department of Emergency Medicine on the Fanya 

Gottesfeld Heller Floor at Shaare Zedek was described as “excellent,” a ranking given 

to only one other Israeli emergency department. 

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Zedek and receiving support from his colleagues and family, 

Professor Schimmel began the process of preparing his body to 

donate the marrow. According to an international law which 

governs such transplants, the identity of the recipient is kept 

from the donor for at least a year after the initial donation. But 

Professor Schimmel says it is largely irrelevant to him who 

received the transplant. “As opposed to my daily work here at 

Shaare Zedek where I am in a one-on-one relationship with my 

patients, here I didn’t have to be concerned with who was 

being helped. Just the sense that I was able to save a life is 

all the incentive I needed.” 

reference to the medical staff, and doctors were described as 

“outstanding in their patience and willingness to help.” The 

reporter went on to write, “At all stages, explanations were provided 

by the staff for what they were doing. They acted calmly 

and with no feelings of stress or anxiety. Despite the fact that 

the Department was busy with patients, traffic moved smoothly 

and everyone received prompt attention.” 

The bottom line expressed by the report asked, “Would 

you suggest that someone choose this Emergency Department?” 

To which the reporter answered with one word, “Certainly!”


T H E H O S P I T A L 

Veteran Midwife 

Experiences 

Truly Memorable 

Delivery 

Over the years, Shaare Zedek’s maternity department 

has produced its fair share of dramatic stories, but one 

recent delivery stands out, even in a place well-known 

for producing emotional and highly memorable events. 

As one of the longest serving midwifes at Shaare Zedek, 

Chana Dibon has personally been responsible for bringing literally 

thousands of new babies into the world. The soon to be 

70 year old has been working in the maternity department for 

49 years. With that career, she has been privy to delivering 

children from several generations of the same family. Yet most 

recently that accomplishment took on a whole new drama of 

its own, when Chana delivered a baby that was none other 

than her own great-grandchild. 

“Having worked here for nearly fifty years, it is not rare 

for me to deliver a baby to a woman and then have her moth- 

Anita and Rabbi David Fuld and their entire family 

recently participated in a ceremony that celebrated 

their dedication of Shaare Zedek’s Pre-Implantation 

Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) Lab. Rabbi Fuld explained that he 

“wanted to open this PGD lab to give back some of what I 

have received.” 

The beauty of PGD is that it does not involve abortion, 

says Fuld in a recent interview with The Jerusalem Post, but 

merely the selection of healthy eggs for fertilization of healthy, 

non-carrier embryos for implantation. So far the Shaare Zedek 

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Shaare Zedek midwife Chana Dibon with one of the 

thousands of babies she’s delivered over the last five decades 

er come to tell me that I was the midwife who delivered her 

children as well,” Chana said in an interview reported on 

Israel’s most popular website Ynet. “I truly love my work and 

it is something I have been doing since I was 20 years old. 

While I long ago lost count of how many children I’ve delivered, 

I know it’s well into the thousands.” Perhaps most 

impressive about the Ynet article were the resounding responses, 

which included praise for the staff at Shaare Zedek. One 

writer described the Hospital as “remarkable” and concluded 

her posting by writing, “I strongly advise all women in labor 

whether from Jerusalem or the South to tell their ambulance 

driver, just head for Shaare Zedek!” 

Fuld Family Dedicates 

Shaare Zedek PGD Lab 

lab has tested for 45 different genetic disorders including fragile 

X, monotonic dystrophy, cystic fibrosis, Tay Sachs, Gaucher, 

muscular dystrophy, familial dysautonomia, Niemann-Pick disease 

(type A), Canavan, CIPA and other syndromes. 

To date the lab has proudly brought 62 healthy children 

into the world, including one set of triplets and 10 sets of twins. 

There are now an additional 20 women pregnant with 27 fetuses 

on the way. As a special thank you to the Fulds, the Hospital 

presented them with a photo album of all of the babies whose 

birth had been made possible by their visionary generosity.

H I G H L I G H T S F R O M 

Shaare Zedek Researchers Highlighted in National News Item 

In a report written in The Marker, the business daily associated with 

Haaretz, two Shaare Zedek physicians, Professor Alberto Gabizon 

and Professor Ephrat Levy-Lahad, were featured prominently and 

described as having advanced some of the most important findings in 

cancer research. The two Shaare Zedek physicians were among a total 

of five from throughout Israel that the article chose to highlight. 

The article bearing the bold headline, “Here in Israel We Have 

Brilliant Minds” discussed the prestigious Israel Cancer Research 

Fund (ICRF) and the grants it has distributed in recent decades. The 

head of the Fund, Leah Susskind, well-known to the Shaare Zedek 

community as a cherished friend and supporter of the Hospital, was 

quoted prominently in the article. “My father, sister and two of my 

best friends died from cancer. So many people are lost to this disease, 

so how can I possibly stand by and say that this is not my business?” 

A passionate advocate for strengthening cancer research in Israel, 

Mrs. Susskind travels the world gaining support for the Fund. 

Professor Alberto Gabizon, the Director of Oncology at Shaare 

Zedek, is a world-recognized scientist whose studies have directly 

lead to the development of cancer-care drugs. The drug Doxil, which 

he developed, is used for the reduction of sarcomas, cancerous 

growths that appear in AIDS patients as well as sufferers of breast and 

ovarian cancer. 

Professor Ephrat Levy-Lahad is known both in Israel and 

throughout the international medical community as a leading 

The Cardiac Catheterization 

Laboratory in the 

Jesselson Heart Center 

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geneticist. Serving at Shaare Zedek as the Director of the Fuld 

Family Department of Medical Genetics, Professor Lahad has been 

responsible for advancing some of the hospital’s most ambitious and 

important research studies including its pioneering Pre-Implantation 

Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) program and the Stem Cell Research 

Program which commenced in December of 2007. 

Professor Jonathan Halevy, Director-General of Shaare Zedek 

commented on The Marker article saying it serves as an important 

recognition of the type of institution Shaare Zedek has become. “In 

recent years we have dedicated considerable resources and attention 

towards making our Hospital not only a provider of top quality and 

compassionate care but also a leading center of academia and cutting 

edge science. Professors Gabizon and Levy-Lahad are prime examples 

of what Shaare Zedek has to offer the medical research community,” 

Professor Halevy said. “They are joined by hundreds of other physicians 

and researchers who have succeeded in making Shaare Zedek 

a name known all over the world and we look forward to witnessing 

many more and increasingly impressive advancements coming out 

of the Medical Center.” 

Shaare Zedek Introduces Groundbreaking 

New Cardiac Procedure to Israel 

This year Shaare Zedek performed a groundbreaking cardiac procedure that made it the first hospital 

in Israel to successfully replace heart valves using cardiac catheterization. The procedure, performed 

under the direction of Dr. Yaron Almagor, Director of Interventional Cardiology for the Jesselson 

Heart Center at Shaare Zedek, involves threading artificial implants through an artery and into the heart. 

Such a procedure is being lauded across the medical community for allowing patients to avoid open-heart 

surgeries which can bring heightened risk for complications and are often defined by long recovery periods. 

Until Shaare Zedek introduced the procedure, it was being performed at only a few other hospitals 

around the world. Post-procedure hospitalization can be as short as two days and the overall recovery 

period is expected to last a few days, considerably shorter than is the case with open-chest surgery. While


T H E H O S P I T A L 

Providing a Face to Radiology 

For decades Shaare Zedek has been 

known as a Hospital that embodies 

the perfect combination of high-tech 

medicine with compassionate patient care. 

Never has this dichotomy been more evident than in a recent 

study conducted under the auspices of Shaare Zedek radiologists 

Dr. Yonatan Turner and Professor Irith Hadas-Halpern. 

With their innovative new study, the field of radiology has 

the potential to be dramatically transformed by providing a face 

to what has often been thought of as a “faceless” medical discipline. 

Dr. Turner says the research study was motivated by a 

feeling that he was unable to build an emotional connection 

with patients whose images and scans he would analyze but 

rarely come into contact with. He surmised that if he and fellow 

radiologists were provided with a picture of their patient’s face, 

perhaps things would be different. 

Using this hypothesis, Dr. Turner and Professor Hadas-Halpern 

Genetic Study of Chronic Lymphocytic 

Leukemia Launched at Shaare Zedek 

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gathered photos from 318 patients, and attached their digital 

images to the patient file. The results clearly proved that radiologists 

reading scans with photos produced significantly longer 

reports and developed more comprehensive analyses than those 

cases without photos. 

This research was recently presented at the Radiology 

Association of North America’s gathering in Chicago, which is the 

world’s most prestigious radiology conference. The findings may 

prove to significantly change the field of radiology and have 

already garnered media attention all over the world. 

“For doctors like radiologists and pathologists who often 

don’t come into direct contact with their patients, this new 

concept will allow us to establish that emotional connection,” says 

Professor Hadas-Halpern. “There is little doubt that this can positively 

impact on how we relate to our patients and ensure that 

they are being provided with that extra amount of personal interaction 

and care in a medical discipline that had previously been 

lacking that aspect.” 

Through the initiative of Shaare Zedek Senior Hematologist Dr. Rosa Ruchlemer, 

Shaare Zedek’s Professor Ephrat Levy-Lahad, Dr. Andreas Rosenwald of the 

University of Wuerzburg, and Prof George Calin of the University of Texas M.D. 

Anderson Cancer Center are about to launch a study aimed at better understanding why 

Ashkenazi Jews have a higher incidence of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL). The study will be taking place through the 

support of a grant from the CLL Global Research Foundation and will create the CLL Israel Research Consortium (CLLIRC). 

Among the long-term objectives of this study are to identify 

the genetic basis connected to CLL which would provide important 

benefits for diagnostic and preventative medicine purposes. 

The study will first involve about 500 Ashkenazi Jews and 250 

non-Ashkenazi Jews who have the disease. Research would 

then center on any differences in the genetic constitution 

among the Ashkenazi population which might predispose this 

experts caution that this technique is not an option for all cardiac 

patients, the numerous benefits it represents makes it an 

important development for the Israeli medical scene. “The application 

of this highly complex procedure is evidence of how 

Shaare Zedek is able to apply the latest and most innovative 

techniques to benefit our patient population,” said Professor 

Jonathan Halevy, Director-General of Shaare Zedek. “This offers 

a great deal of potential to benefit the local medical community 

and further define Israel as a leading innovator in the international 

medical arena.” 

particular group to inherit the disease. 

Shaare Zedek’s location in Israel’s capital makes the Hospital 

particularly well positioned to take a leading role in the study. 

Home to the world’s most diverse selection of Jews, Israel’s demographics 

make it particularly well suited for genetic studies of this 

nature. The CLLIRC will act to collect information from around 

the country and facilitate future research and analysis. 

Since the summer, when the procedure was first introduced 

to Israel at Shaare Zedek, the technique has become increasingly 

more popular as it attracts more and more patients. Those who 

have benefited from the procedure at Shaare Zedek report recovering 

within days as opposed to the several weeks of recovery 

associated with open chest surgeries. They similarly report obtaining 

a better and healthier quality of life immediately. One of the 

first patients who underwent the procedure at Shaare Zedek 

was an American tourist who chose to come to Jerusalem for this 

very purpose.

P R O F I L E S I N G I V I N G 

She currently resides in Allenspark, CO where she trains horses. Ms. 

Rothberg serves on the Board and the Executive Committee of Hebrew 

University as well as on the Board of the Healing Waters Foundation. 

Her first gifts to Shaare Zedek included the dedication of a Trauma 

Bed Unit and a 10-Bed Acute Care Unit in the Department of 

Emergency Medicine. 

Ms. Rothberg’s father, Sam, who passed away in July 2007, was a key 

architect of the American Jewish community’s relationship with Israel 

who, as both a philanthropist and business leader, played a major role 

in the nascent state’s economic and scientific development. In 1967, 

he was elected chairman of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew 

University of Jerusalem where he played a major role in the Univer- 

sity’s return to its historic home 

on Mount Scopus and spearheaded 

numerous innovative 

projects at the University. Honored 

and saluted by Israel’s 

prime ministers, from David 

Ben-Gurion to Ehud Barak, 

all of whom acknowledged his unique contributions to Israel, Sam 

Rothberg created an unforgettable legacy. A founder of the State of 

Israel Bond Organization, a founder of the Israel Investors Corporation, 

a member of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Agency 

for Israel/World Zionist Organization, the first National Chairman 

of Major Gifts for the United Jewish Appeal, and a leader in countless 

other organizations, he devoted his life to Israel’s well being. 

Sir Isaac Newton wrote, “If I have seen further it is by standing 

on the shoulders of giants.” It is quite clear that Ms. Rothberg not 

only learned from one of the Jewish community’s greatest heroes, but 

has taken the message to heart and continued to leave her own lasting 

effect on countless organizations. 

“Her decision to dedicate Shaare Zedek’s Department of Pediatric 

Nephrology will literally change the lives of countless children 

throughout Israel,” Said Shaare Zedek Director-General Professor 

Jonathan Halevy. The Pediatric Nephrology unit at Shaare Zedek 

was the first such department of its kind in all of Israel and today 

represents the largest and busiest of only four in the country. The 

new medical environment that will be created within the Wilf 

Children’s Hospital will enhance both the Department’s reputation 

for excellence and its ability to positively influence the lives of 

hundreds of children and their families every year. 

Heidi Rothberg (Allensport, CO) 

Newest Gift: $2,000,000 to Name the Rothberg Family 

Department of Pediatric Nephrology, 

In Loving Memory of Samuel Rothberg, z”l 

Heidi Rothberg with Vulcan, Paris and Yoda 

Heidi Rothberg is a prominent lay leader in the United States whose 

commitment to supporting worthy causes throughout Israel has perpetuated 

the legacy of philanthropy instilled in her by her parents 

Jean and the late Samuel Rothberg. Ms. Rothberg grew up in Peoria, IL and 

graduated from the University of Colorado in 1972 with a B.A. in Archaeology. 

MS. ROTHBERG EXPLAINED, “HAVING SERVED 

AS AN EMT IN JERUSALEM, I BECAME EXTREMELY 

FAMILIAR WITH ALL OF THE LOCAL HOSPITALS, 

AND SHAARE ZEDEK WAS MY FAVORITE. 

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Young patients treated in the Department for end-stage renal 

disease receive treatment three times a week, for at least three hours 

each time, often for several years. Most of these children are awaiting 

a kidney transplant. For these patients, the Hospital becomes a 

second home, and we are committed to making this home as 

pleasant as possible. Appreciating the fragile health of the children 

in this Unit, the doctors and nurses are trained to handle all sorts of 

medical eventualities. Emer-gencies that require immediate invasive 

treatment including respiratory resuscitations can occur at any time 

and the Unit is equipped to react. At times, the severity of a child’s 

failing kidneys requires that they come in to the Unit for dialysis at 

night or on the weekends and the medical staff is always prepared 

to ensure such needs are met. 

Patients treated in the Department 

of Nephrology range 

in age from a few weeks old to 

19 years of age. Dialysis on a 

very young infant is known to 

be an extremely specialized 

technique that very few hospitals in the world are currently performing 

and many of these babies are referred to Shaare Zedek 

from other hospitals. 

Located on the first floor of the two-story Children’s Hospital, 

the new Department of Nephrology will occupy approximately 

8,000 square feet, well over five times the area of the current 

Department. At its Center will be the Pediatric Nephrology Unit 

comprising twelve individual stations (instead of the current eight). 

Two of these will be completely enclosed for patients undergoing 

procedures that require additional privacy. 

Ms. Rothberg explained, “Having served as an EMT in 

Jerusalem, I became extremely familiar with all of the local hospitals, 

and Shaare Zedek was my favorite. I have maintained a 

very strong connection to the Hospital throughout the years, 

especially because of my friendship with Emunah Hasin. As the 

Hospital embarks on its project to build the new Children’s 

Hospital, I decided that dedicating the Nephrology Department 

was a uniquely special opportunity.” 

Shaare Zedek is honored and privileged to merit the support of 

the Rothberg Family which continues in such a meaningful way to 

inspire hope and healing for the children of Jerusalem and Israel.


Murray and Linda Laulicht (Bal Harbour, FL) 

Newest Gift: $500,000 to Name the Linda and Murray Laulicht Non-Surgical Aortic 

Valve Replacement Program 

If you were to do a quick Google search online for the names 

Linda and Murray Laulicht you would find pages of “hits” listing 

their countless professional and charitable achievements 

throughout the years, spearheading programs and projects that 

have left a lasting impact on the international Jewish community. 

Murray Laulicht has been a partner, specializing in business 

litigation, in the Florham Park law firm of Pitney, Hardin, Kipp 

& Szuch (now Day Pitney LLP) since 1979. Mr. Laulicht received 

his undergraduate degree from Yeshiva University, where he was 

Editor-in-Chief of The Commentator and President of the 

Debating Society. He graduated, summa cum laude, from 

Columbia University School of Law, where he finished first in his 

class. Thereafter, Mr. Laulicht served as a member of the staff of 

the Warren Commission and then as Law Clerk to Judge Harold 

Medina of the United States Court of Appeals. 

From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Laulicht served as the president of 

the United Jewish Federation of MetroWest, NJ. He currently 

serves as a member of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust 

Education and sits on the Boards of the Jewish Agency for Israel, 

United Jewish Communities of MetroWest, and Stern College for 

Women. Mr. Laulicht previously served as chairman of the Metro 

West Federation’s Religious Pluralism and Community Relations 

Committees, president of the Jewish Education Association of 

MetroWest and of Congregation Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob & 

David in West Orange, NJ, and as a member of the board of 

Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy. 

Linda Laulicht currently serves as a member of the Board 

of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Mrs. 

Laulicht has served as a member of the Boards of United 

Jewish Communities of MetroWest, NJ, Jewish Services for 

the Developmentally Disabled, Rachel Coalition Against 

Domestic Violence, Daughters of 

Israel Geriatric Center, UJA 

Women’s Campaign and State of 

Israel Bonds. She has also served as 

a member of the Second Generation 

Council of the United States 

Holocaust Memorial Museum and 

as Co-President of the Sisterhood 

of Congregation Ahawas Achim 

Bnai Jacob & David in West Orange. 

Mrs. Laulicht received a B.A. from Rutgers University. She 

is a major benefactor of Stern College for Women and Joseph 

Kushner Hebrew Academy and Rae Kushner Yeshiva High 

School, which are named in memory of her parents. The Laulichts 

are currently involved in building the Linda and Murray Laulicht 

Center for Teens and Youth in Ofakim, Israel. 

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They are the proud parents of Laurie and Bernard Hasten of 

Chicago IL, Pamela and Ari Hirt of Teaneck NJ, Shellie and Eric 

Davis of Efrat, Israel, and Abigail and Scott Herschmann of 

Englewood NJ. The Laulichts are blessed with seventeen grandchildren, 

three of whom were born in Shaare Zedek. 

For several years the Laulichts have maintained a close relationship 

with Shaare Zedek and have come to understand the 

tremendous role the Hospital is playing in healing the citizens of 

Jerusalem and Israel from their close friends Helen and Menno 

Ratzker. This past summer they traveled to South Africa on the 

American Committee Mission and had an opportunity to spend 

significant time with Shaare Zedek’s Director-General, Prof. 

Jonathan Halevy. It was over the course of those two weeks and 

during a subsequent trip to the Hospital that the couple decided that 

they wanted to make a significant gift to this special institution. 

The Laulichts say that they “were particularly impressed by 

Prof. Halevy’s statement of Shaare Zedek’s two fundamental guiding 

principles, its dedication to Halacha and its commitment to 

equality and non-discrimination in its treatment of patients and 

staff. We were also very impressed by Shaare Zedek’s numerous 

medical breakthroughs.” 

After several discussions, Mr. and Mrs. Laulicht chose to 

dedicate the Linda and Murray Laulicht Non-Surgical Aortic 

Valve Replacement Program. This relatively new procedure 

has the potential to significantly change cardiac medicine 

in Israel. In the most basic of terms, the new procedure 

allows for the treatment of complex cardiac blockages 

without necessitating invasive surgery. The benefits are 

many, but most fundamentally, it allows for quicker recovery 

times and for comprehensive treatment options for 

many patients that previously would not have been able 

to receive any type of aggressive cardiac care. (Read more about 

this exciting medical breakthrough on page 6). 

It is not an exaggeration to say that this procedure represents 

one of the most significant medical developments of the last decade. 

The Laulichts’ gift is thus playing a historic role in advancing this 

procedure at Shaare Zedek and in providing lasting and immeasurable 

benefit to the people of Jerusalem and Israel.

P R O F I L E S I N G I V I N G 

Nader and Jeanette Ohebshalom (Kings Point, NY) and 

Fred and Yvonne Ohebshalom (Kings Point, NY) 

Newest Gift: $260,000 to Name The Parviz Ohebshalom 

Cancer Pain and Palliative Medicine Clinic 

Nader Ohebshalom Fred Ohebshalom 

Nader Ohebshalom was born in Tehran in 1946 and emigrated 

to the United States at the age of 18. He attended 

a local New York City community college, graduating 

with a degree in Finance. He is currently the President of Gatsby 

Enterprises, a major residential and commercial property management 

company based in Manhattan. Nader and his wife Jeanette 

have four children, Lisa, Sherrie, Jessica and Isaac. Nader is a member 

of Temple Israel of Great Neck, Bet Hadassah and The Cherry Lane 

Minyan. He supports the Iranian American Jewish Foundation 

(IAJF), an organization that 

has been recognized as the 

unified voice of Iranian Jews 

throughout the world. 

Isaac, Nader and Jeanette Ohebshalom 

dedicate The Parviz Ohebshalom Clinic 

Fred Ohebshalom was 

born in Tehran in 1952 and 

emigrated to the United 

States in 1964. He attended 

Pace University where he 

earned a B.A. in Business 

Administration. Fred currently 

serves as the President 

of Empire Management, a 

major residential and commercial 

property management 

company based in 

Manhattan. Fred and his 

wife Yvonne have 4 children, 

Richard, Sandy, Alex and 

Stephanie. Fred sits on the 

Board of the IAJC and recently started a fund to finance the purchase 

of computers for small community organizations in Israel. 

He has served as the Vice President and a member of the Board 

of the Bet Hadassah Iranian Jewish Center and twice served as 

President of the Sephardic Heritage Alliance. Fred also represents 

the Iranian community on the board of the Hebrew Immigrant 

Aid Society (HIAS). 

The Ohebshalom brothers recently chose to dedicate the 

Parviz Ohebshalom Cancer Pain and Palliative Medicine Clinic. 

The Clinic was named in loving memory of their brother Parviz, 

z”l. Jack Harounian, International Chair of the Iranian Friends of 

Shaare Zedek, introduced his brothers-in-law, Nader and Fred, to 

Shaare Zedek Director-General Prof. Jonathan Halevy, who 

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explained the vital role of the Clinic. 

Shaare Zedek’s Cancer Pain and Palliative Medicine Unit, 

directed by Dr. Nathan Cherny, is an integral element of the inpatient 

oncology department, and is consulted by all of the 

departments in the hospital that treat cancer patients. The Unit’s 

role is to optimize patients’ quality of life, addressing physical, 

spiritual and emotional issues, while they receive expert oncological 

treatment. 

The ideal is that “whole-person” care, with specialists able to 

help patients maintain their sense of purpose during the time they 

have remaining. These specialists, including psychologists, social 

workers, music therapists, and recreational therapists, among 

others, work together to optimize the value of life even as patients 

and their families confront the end of life. Each patient is part of 

a family, and his or her problems are addressed in the context of 

the family whenever appropriate. 

Nader and Jeanette, together with their son Isaac, recently 

visited Shaare Zedek where they had an opportunity to dedicate the 

Ohebshalom Clinic. Prof. Halevy expressed his heartfelt thanks 

to the Ohebshalom families for sponsoring such an important 

project and his satisfaction in seeing how this donation has significantly 

enlarged and upgraded the Clinic. 

Nader explained his motivation behind the gift, “G-d commands 

us to help our people and we believe that it is critical to support 

Israel with our hearts, our minds and our wealth. We are extremely 

proud of the work done at Shaare Zedek, especially in the Cancer 

Pain and Palliative Care Clinic, and we are honored to be a part 

of the puzzle. My son Isaac is constantly pushing me to do more, 

and so we look forward to helping this incredible Hospital again 

in the future.” 

Fred further explained, “If Hashem blesses you with success, 

you must respond by strongly supporting charitable organizations 

in Israel and in the community, particularly hospitals, yeshivas 

and synagogues. Nader and I believe that this project will play a 

major role in helping suffering cancer patients. Our brother 

Parviz was our mentor. He was a true genius in the business world 

who cared deeply for those in need and passionately loved his 

family. He had a heart of gold and the acts of chesed and compassionate 

medicine that take place at Shaare Zedek are a truly 

fitting testament to his memory.


National Dinner 2008 

This year’s National Dinner, Celebrating Israel’s 60th at Pier 60 paid tribute to three giants 

of the Shaare Zedek Family: Menno Ratzker, Guardian of Jerusalem Award; Professor 

Jonathan Halevy, Magen Cholei Yisrael Award; and Rabbi Morris I. Esformes, Dr. David 

Applebaum International Humanitarian Award. With more than 400 attendees, the spectacular 

evening celebrated Shaare Zedek’s great accomplishments and recognized those who have played 

a major role in these achievements. 

Helen and Menno Ratzker and Family 

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 

Dinner Co-Chair Michael S. Strauss, 

Murray Laulicht and Steve Rothschild 

The Harounian Family 

American Committee President 

Jack Bendheim and Menno Ratzker 

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Maury Aaron, Rabbi Morris I. Esformes, 

Rabbi Gerry Rosenberg and National Board 

Treasurer Ronald Abrams 

Dr. Yitzchak Kanarek, 

American Committee Board Secretary 

Abby Ellison Kanarek 

and Prof. Jonathan Halevy 

Dr. Paul Lerer, National Board Member 

Esther Lerer and Millie and Larry Magid

Shaare Zedek Mission to South Africa 2008 

Preparing to embark on a surprising adventure into the Indian Ocean 

in search of whales 

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Outside of the Cango Caves 

On our way to Victoria Falls Canopy Tour in Tsitsikamma Forest 

Outside of the Oudtshoorn Shul Visiting the Penguins in Cape Town


Shaare Zedek Mission to South Africa 2008 

More than 70 participants joined us for a once-in-alifetime 

travel experience to Cape Town, the Garden 

Route, Johannesburg, Sabi Sabi, Livingstone and 

Chobe this past summer. Highlights included a private Shabbat 

dinner with past President of South Africa FW De Klerk, 

political updates from scholar-in-residence Malcom Hoenlein, 

medical presentations from Shaare Zedek Director-General 

Prof. Jonathan Halevy, a special evening with the Johannesburg 

community and elected officials and, of course, the majestic beauty 

of our safari and visit to Victoria Falls. 

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Sporting our North Face gear in Johannesburg 

On Safari! The Men 

On the Chobe River in Botswana The Women

A packed tent of children look on with 

delight as the acrobats perform. 

Dr. Tzvi Katz and Family with 

Director-General Prof. Jonathan Halevy 

CONTINUED FROM COVER: GLAUBACH FAMILY DEDICATES SPECTACULAR NEW PEDIATRIC ER 

the children of Jerusalem are already benefiting from the new 

standard of care that Shaare Zedek is now able to provide.” 

Dr. Felix Glaubach spoke on behalf of his family and said 

he hopes this gift will help encourage others to support the continued 

development of the hospital. He received a big laugh 

Circus with a Heart 

The Glaubach Family 

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The Fuld Family 

when he said that “With Hashem’s help, together with the help 

of the stock market, we should all be able to better support the 

hospital.” 

From the dedication the group was escorted straight to the 

Circus in the Sukkah which was waiting outside.


The first circus event was the Shaare Zedek Annual Dinner 

which this year was naturally dedicated to the spirit of childhood 

fun with proceeds going to support the development of 

the Wilf Children’s Hospital. 

A fun-filled program featured the clowning troupe of the 

Rofei Chalom, a team of medical clowns whose act is specifically 

designed to bring cheer to sick patients. The circus 

scene was made complete with a performance by African 

acrobats whose act left both children and adults alike amazed 

With a big Red-Top parked on the Shaare Zedek campus, 

the circus spirit was in the air 

Circus with a Heart 

With the Sukkot holiday spirit clearly in the Jerusalem 

air, Shaare Zedek welcomed the first ever Circus in a 

Sukkah celebrating the hospital’s annual dinner and 

offering a series of circus performances to families of Shaare Zedek 

employees and the wider Jerusalem community. A large patch of the 

hospital’s parking lot was converted to house a color-filled circus 

tent surrounded on all sides. 

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and cheering loudly. 

Following the annual dinner, the circus tent was opened 

for several additional performances including one specially for 

Shaare Zedek employees and their families. Pediatric patients 

being treated in the hospital were provided with free entrance. 

All of the performances were sold out well before they started 

making Shaare Zedek one of the most talked about sites over 

the Sukkot holiday. 

American Committee Board member 

Alan Hirmes with Naava and Jeffrey Parker 

Judy and Michael Kaiser and Family

Honoree Diane Ackerman 

and Ellen Wasserman 

Women’s Division Luncheon 2008 

Honorary Chair Ingeborg Rennert, 

Fanya Gottesfeld Heller, Honoree Gail Propp and 

Women’s Division President Lee Weinbach 

Gail Propp, Honoree; Fran Kupietzky, Chair of 

the Development Board; Ann Dachs, 

Honoree and Women’s Division Vice President; 

Lee Weinbach, Women’s Division President and 

This year’s luncheon honored three spectacular 

women: Gail Propp, First Awardee of the Genetic 

Research Department; Ann Turobiner Dachs, 

Distinguished Service Award; and Diane Ackerman, author 

of The Zoo Keeper’s Wife, a War Story. At the luncheon 

the National Women’s Division announced its new campaign 

to support the Shaare Zedek Fuld Department of 

Medical Genetics, chaired by Prof. Ephrat Levy-Lahad. 

Ariel Zwang, 

Honorary Dinner Chair 

Gabrielle Propp, 

Presenter Marjorie Blenden, 

Yocheved Weinbach, 

Lee Weinbach 

and Hilda Riback 

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Gail Propp and Family 

Esther Lerer, Mistress of Ceremonies. Women’s Division Vice President 

Fayge Schwartz and Gloria Kaylie 

THE WOMEN’S DIVISION 

HOSTED AN EXCITING DAY 

FOR FAMILIES AT A NY 

LIBERTY WNBA GAME AT 

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. 

Ann Dachs and Family


International Board of Governors Meeting, 

Israel 2008 

Last year’s Board of Governors meeting welcomed more than 

100 representatives from throughout the world including 

the United States, Israel, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, 

Holland and Norway. 

The agenda included the approval of a new set of By-Laws, 

an in-depth presentation by Director-General Prof. Jonathan 

Halevy on the medical highlights of Shaare Zedek, a comprehensive 

lecture on Stem Cell Research at the Hospital from 

both Prof. Ephrat Levy-Lahad and Professor Avraham Steinberg, 

a question and answer session with Shaare Zedek’s “rising stars,” 

and a discussion of the Hospital’s goal to build a $250 million 

endowment. 

Steve Price and Ronald Abrams Menno and Helen Ratzker and 

Louise and Harvey Wolinetz 

Helen Ratzker, Alice Schoenfeld, 

Debbie Gold and Louise Wolinetz 

We mourn the loss of an exceptional role model and 

humble community leader who worked tirelessly on 

behalf of Shaare Zedek for 35 years. His warm smile, 

extraordinary professionalism and above all, loyal friendship, 

earned him the admiration and deep respect of the entire “Shaare 

Zedek Family.” Until just months before his passing, at the age 

of 89, Cantor Frankel continued to travel to work twice a week as 

our Director of Purchasing for the Hospital, a position which 

he held for 35 years. 

Mr. Frankel was born in Hamburg, Germany, the youngest 

of four brothers who lost their father when they were very young. 

Raised by his exemplary mother, at age five he began taking lessons 

from Levi Rosenblatt (the brother of the famed Yossele 

Roseblatt), on the awesome responsibilities of being a Sheliach 

Tzibbur. With the rise of the Nazis he was forced to leave the 

IN MEMORY OF 

ROBERT R. FRANKEL, Z”L 

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Talmud Tora Realschule at age 14, and became an apprentice at 

a commercial firm. 

At age 19 he fled to England, and shortly thereafter was 

interned on the Isle of Man and several other camps. From 1943- 

1946 Mr. Frankel served as Cantor of the Adath Yisroel Synagogue 

in London, and eventually made the decision to emigrate to the 

United States. After brief stays in Seattle, Jersey City and 

Baltimore, Cantor Frankel settled in Washington Heights and in 

1949 became the cantor of K’hal Adath Jeshurun. 

In 1943, Mr. Frankel married the former Frances Faust. There 

was hardly a day that went by when Mr. Frankel wasn’t speaking 

glowingly and lovingly about his wife, his son Danny, his daughterin-law 

Sally or his grandchildren Adele and Samson. 

In 1974 Cantor Frankel began his tenure as the Director of 

Purchasing for the American Committee for Shaare Zedek. 

Thanks to his business acumen, professional expertise and unrelenting 

dedication, countless life-saving pieces of equipment 

today fill the halls of Shaare Zedek. 

To have known Cantor Frankel, was to understand the true 

definition of a gentleman. His kind heart, soft words and brilliant 

smile lit up our office and the lives of all those he met. He is sorely 

missed each and every day. 

May his memory be a blessing.


N ORTHWEST R EGION 

NORTHWEST REGION NAMES NEW BOARD CHAIR 

Francine Gani 

We are delighted to announce the new Chair of the Northwest Regional Board of Directors, Francine 

Gani. Francine has been a member of the Northwest Regional Board for 2 years and just a few months 

ago hosted a dessert reception in her home for Professor Francis Mimouni, Director of Pediatrics at 

Shaare Zedek. At that reception, Francine announced her Foundership gift which dedicated the 

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit’s Nursing Station in the new Wilf Children’s Hospital. Francine currently 

serves as an Investor and the Chief Financial Officer of Veritrix, Inc. in Palo Alto, a start-up company 

in the authentication business. She is also an investor and Director of Desha Productions, Inc. in Palo 

Alto, a start-up company in the media business. Francine grew up in Lausanne, Switzerland, moved to 

the United States in 1977 and currently lives in Palo Alto, CA. 

SAN FRANCISCO BOARD MEMBER AMY FRIEDKIN WITH 

PROF. JONATHAN HALEVY AFTER RECEIVING A TOUR OF THE HOSPITAL 

William J. Lowenberg has been a key member of the 

American Committee’s National Board for decades. A 

prominent San Francisco philanthropist and long-time 

supporter of the Hospital, Mr. Lowenberg was named this year by 

President George W. Bush to the delegation headed by former 

Homeland Secretary Michael Chertoff to represent the President 

at the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. 

President Bush could not have made a more appropriate choice. 

A survivor of Auschwitz, this was Mr. Lowenberg’s first visit to 

Poland since the war; the last time he had been to Warsaw was more 

than sixty four years ago. As a laborer in Auschwitz, Mr. Lowenberg 

was brought by cattle car to the destroyed city to dispose of those 

who had been murdered in the uprising, prying gold out of the 

mouths of the dead. The daily images of life in Auschwitz were 

horrific enough and these new memories brought a gruesome 

new dimension to the horrors of the Holocaust. 

Mr. Lowenberg and Michael Chertoff, 

Former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security 

SHAARE ZEDEK 

LAY LEADER 

MAKES HISTORIC RETURN 

TO POLAND 

William J. Lowenberg in front of 

Nathan Rappaport Memorial to Heroes 

of Warsaw Ghetto 

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It was certainly not an easy decision for Mr. Lowenberg to return 

to the site of these memories, but his trip paid tribute to those who 

were murdered by showing how far both he and the Jewish community 

as a whole have come despite the atrocities of the Nazis. 

To read more about Bill’s experiences go to www.acsz.org/bill.


A Legacy of Healing 

Stefan Adelipour had everything to live for. Months from his 

graduation, he looked forward to the next stage of his life, 

surrounded by his loving family and friends. He was friendly, 

wise, compassionate, and radiated an unmatched zest and ambition. 

Sadly, his life was snuffed out in a moment by the flames of 

tragedy, leaving his family and friends unable to bear the loss 

of such a young and beautiful soul. 

In the aftermath of Stefan’s untimely death, the Adelipour 

family bravely decided that they wanted to undertake a project 

to save other lives and to heal the suffering of others. It was with 

this in mind that they created the Stefan Adelipour For Life 

Foundation in memory of Stefan Adelipour, z”l. 

Their first act was to dedicate the Stefan Adelipour Shock and 

Trauma Unit in the new Wilf Children’s Hospital at Shaare Zedek. 

The Shock and Trauma Unit offers life saving treatment for 

children and young adults who are injured in fires, automobile 

accidents, bombings, etc. and 

is prepared to treat the most 

difficult medical issues that 

arise in the lives of children 

Keynote Speaker Elie Wiesel with 

West Coast Director Paul Jeser and 

Rabbi Marvin Tokayer 


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and young adults. How fitting that the children and young adults 

of Jerusalem will forever be treated by the Stefan Adelipour Shock 

and Trauma Unit during their greatest need. Stefan’s last act saved 

the life of his roommate and now his legacy will further save other 

lives in his name. 

This past year the American Committee sponsored a concert 

in Los Angeles in Stefan's memory and just a few months 

ago the Foundation sponsored a memorial program for more 

than 1000 attendees at the Tilles Center on the LIU/CW Post 

campus in Long Island featuring the internationally renowned 

Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel as the keynote speaker. 

SHAARE ZEDEK DIRECTOR-GENERAL 

PROF. JONATHAN HALEVY WITH 

DRS. GITTA AND JACK NAGEL 

AT ADINNER HOSTED BY THE NAGELS 

FOR PROF. HALEVY AND 

SEVERAL OF THEIR FRIENDS 

The Adelipour family with Prof. Jonathan Halevy 

and Honey Kessler Amado 

SHAARE ZEDEK’S OWN JACK MATLOFF NAMED BY THE 

LOS ANGELES JEWISH JOURNAL AS ONE OF LA’S TOP 10 MENSCHES 

We were certainly not surprised when Jack Matloff, a man whose name has become synonymous 

with caring, compassion and the highest levels of medical excellence, was recently named by the 

Los Angeles Jewish Journal as one of their top 10 mensches. At Shaare Zedek, Jack Matloff is well 

known for his charisma, passion and commitment to the advancement of cardiac medicine which played a critical role in 

the establishment of Shaare Zedek’s Jesselson Heart Center. We wish Jack, his wife Martha and the whole family a mazal tov 

on this wonderful achievement. 

LOS ANGELES OBESITY SYMPOSIUM FEATURING PROFESSOR 

FRANCES MIMOUNI AND DR. RONALD NAGEL 

Lou and Trudy Kestenbaum, Prof. Frances Mimouni, Director of Pediatrics 

at Shaare Zedek, Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the David Gefen 

School of Medicine at UCLA Dr. Ronald Nagel, Alice Schoenfeld and Sam 

Krieger. In preparation for the symposium the American Committee proudly 

published a pamphlet authored by Dr. Nagel on Pediatric Obesity. Please contact 

your local Shaare Zedek office if you would like a copy.

DETROIT DINNER HONORS 

THREE GIANTS OF THE COMMUNITY 


M IDWEST R EGION 

Tim Attalla, Guardian of Peace Award; 

Florine Mark, Guardian of Peace Award; 

and Michael Traison, 

International Humanitarian Award 

HORSESHOE CASINO KICK-OFF COCKTAIL PARTY 

Aria and Rick Mazer, 

Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Awardees; 

Rabbi Morris Esformes and 

Midwest Regional Director Alison Pure-Slovin 

The event, which will honor Aria and Rick Mazer, will take place on 

March 19, 2009 at the Horseshoe Casino and feature emcee Elliot Gould. 

RAISING HEALTHY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN 

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Midwest Regional Board member and 2009 

dinner co-chair Kathy Posner with 

radio personality Erich “Mancow” Muller 

On September 16th, Sharon Gillman and Laurie Hasten co-chaired the Midwest 

Women’s Luncheon featuring Shaare Zedek’s Prof. Francis Mimouni and Nutrition 

Coach/Registered Dietitian Tatum Brenner. The event focused on the topic “Keeping 

your Child Healthy with Exercise and Nutrition from Childhood through Adolescence”


M IDWEST R EGION 

Sarah and family at Shaare Zedek 

for the dedication of their project 

SARAH LAVIN REACHES MILESTONE IN HER 

KEEP THE CHILDREN GROWING CAMPAIGN 

Sarah and friends “canning” for Shaare Zedek 

Sarah Lavin is a unique young woman from the northern suburbs of Chicago who chose Shaare Zedek as the charity 

project for her Bat Mitzvah. While she had originally committed to raise $25,000 through several events 

and activities, she and her family managed to raise more 

than $50,000! Sarah and her friends spent two afternoons 

“canning” on behalf of Shaare Zedek, she created a special 

Shaare Zedek donation page and ran a successful raffle 

for a flight on a private plane. Recently Sarah and her 

family visited the Hospital and were able to see firsthand 

the impact they made on the lives of our smallest patients 

in dedicating the Special Treatment Room in the Day 

Hospital of the new Wilf Children’s Hospital. 

AEII BROTHERS VISIT SHAARE ZEDEK DURING “GREEKS BUILD ISRAEL” TRIP 

Felix Volyand, Alex Kaldor 

and Shane Krieger 


I just got back from Israel on the JNF run ‘Greeks Build Israel’ trip. As a group we 

did some fantastic things including farming, painting bomb shelters, gardening, planting 

trees, and picking fruit for the less fortunate. It was amazing to see the difference that 39 

individuals can make in only a week of volunteering. We saw an immediate change in 

the communities and the work we did will have a lasting effect. 

After being on a trip with 38 other Jews in numerous other Greek organizations 

(three of us in AEPi) I just want to say how honored I was to be there as an AEPi. One 

of the highlights for AEPi was a tour of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. We 

were shown all the great work that the hospital does, and the work it does around the 

world in dealing with mass casualty situations. When we explained that we were a group 

of college students in fraternities and sororities, the lady immediately asked if there was 

anyone from AEPi. She spoke highly of the work that AEPi does with the hospital. 

I felt privileged to be representing AEPi and the great things we do as a Jewish organization that supports Israel. I felt as 

though I stood out because I was not just a Jew in a Fraternity, but a Jew in a Jewish Fraternity. This trip was very rewarding 

in the sense that I know that of all the fraternities, AEPi as a whole supports the work I did in Israel. I felt empowered knowing 

that AEPi stands with me as I stand with Israel. 

Thank you and everyone else who works hard to give undergrads these incredible opportunities! 

Most Fraternally, 

Alex Kaldor 

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Abby and Dr. Yitzchak Kanarek 

Ann and Pinky Sohn 

visit the Shaare Zedek 

Founders Garden 


N ORTHEAST R EGION 

SHAARE ZEDEK FLOAT TURNS HEADS AT THE SALUTE TO ISRAEL PARADE 

The Ratzker Girls 

NORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY WALK-A-THON 

This past Spring more than 100 students from the North Shore 

Hebrew Academy participated in a walk-a-thon whose route took them 

trekking throughout Great Neck. Clad in Shaare Zedek t-shirts, the group 

walked their way towards raising more than $20,000 for an 

Ambulatory Treatment Station and Nurses Work Station 

in Shaare Zedek’s new Wilf Children’s Hospital. 7th grader 

Avery Rubin explained, “The Walk-a-Thon was just an amazing 

experience. It was so much fun collecting the money, 

having a great time with my friends and all the while knowing 

that we were making a difference for so many children 

at Shaare Zedek.” 

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Drs. Felix and Miriam Glaubach lead the way 

What do you get when you take seven girls who love to play hockey and ask them to 

create a Bat Mitzvah chesed project? “We Love Hockey” a joint Bat Mitzvah initiative of 

Elizabeth Berger, Briana Feirstein, Joanna Greenberg, Danielle Kramer, Rebecca Rychik, 

Tamar Siri and Amanda Solomon. The seven HAFTR sixth graders organized a night of hockey 

attended by their classmates and friends from the Five Towns and Merrick. The fun filled evening 

featured games, prizes and contests and was a huge success. The girls dedicated the play corner in 

the Department of Pediatric Nephrology in the new Wilf Children’s Hospital at Shaare Zedek. 

The Wilf children visit 

the new Glaubach Department 

of Pediatric Medicine in the 

Wilf Children's Hospital 

Lionel and Ruth Fisch visiting the 

new Glaubach Department of 

Pediatric Emergency Medicine



M ID-ATLANTIC R EGION 

In Their Own Words… 

Shaare Zedek Through the Eyes of 2 Baltimore Patients 

Having to go to the hospital is never a pleasant experience. 

During my recent visit to Israel, I had an urgent medical need which 

was eventually diagnosed as Pneumonia. I arrived at Shaare Zedek 

minutes before Shabbat and was expeditiously admitted. After 

phoning my wife back in the U.S. of my situation, Shabbat arrived. 

Despite the feeling of being alone in a foreign country, in a sense, I 

felt very much at home. Shabbat was introduced with candle 

lighting and Kiddush made for me by a young man who works in the 

hospital over Shabbat. He asked me if I needed anything. When I told 

him I would love to study a certain volume of the Talmud, he said that 

he would bring one to me. Not only did he bring it, but he brought 

one for himself. After studying together for an hour, we completed 

the two-sided page, despite my compromised state. This fulfilling study 

was one of the highlights of my experience in the hospital. 

The rest of my stay included various treatments and tests resulting 

in six days in the hospital. I found the staff to be responsive, the 

doctors knowledgeable, the therapists friendly and the overall care to 

be exceptional. Upon my return to the U.S., my doctor reviewed my 

report and was impressed by the thoroughness of the diagnostic testing. 

My uncle, a retired physician, who visited me while I was in Israel 

described the hospital as "cham" or warm. Looking back, I would say 

that this is an accurate description of my feeling about Shaare Zedek. 

—Dr. Elliot Lasson 

As typical Americans who are accustomed to the fine medical 

care provided in the United States, we were quite concerned when 

recently we unexpectedly required the services of the Israeli medical 

system and Shaare Zedek Medical Center in particular. Our son, who 

is learning in yeshiva, was admitted to Shaare Zedek on short notice 

and was there for three weeks. 

My wife spent the first ten days together with her close friend to 

be with our son. I “replaced” her for the next 10 days, allowing us to 

always have one parent home for our other children in the U.S. We 

were blessed with incredible family, friends, teachers and Rabbanim 

who helped so much with every facet of his stay in the hospital. Our 

daughter, who is also studying in seminary for the year was a superstar. 

However, in addition to all of that, the experiences we had at 

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Shaare Zedek on a daily basis, if not hourly, were absolutely incredible. 

From the physicians to the nursing staff and from the wonderful 

Weinberg Foundation-supported hotel to the volunteers who roam 

the hospital freely, we could never have imagined such a wonderful 

experience. The medical care was excellent. In fact, we have subsequently 

learned that many of the procedural directives and cutting 

edge technology in the medical world are being employed at Shaare 

Zedek. Furthermore, much of it is emanating from the staff at 

Shaare Zedek. 

MY UNCLE, A RETIRED PHYSICIAN, WHO 

VISITED ME WHILE I WAS IN ISRAEL 

DESCRIBED THE HOSPITAL AS “CHAM” OR 

WARM. LOOKING BACK, I WOULD SAY 

THAT THIS IS AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION 

OF MY FEELING ABOUT SHAARE ZEDEK 

Our lives have been forever changed by our experience at Shaare 

Zedek. We kept a visitor’s book of the astounding number and range 

of visitors that came to visit our son. This book, along with the “mental 

log” in our minds could fill up quite a few pages of a book. In fact, 

we have thought about doing just that – writing a book. The book 

would be about living with the miracle that is Eretz Yisrael – The 

Land of Israel. It would be about the marvelous people, the terrific 

medical care, the Torah giants who walk the streets and share your life 

with you. It would be about every day life being anything but “everyday” 

like. If you stop for a moment you can feel it. We did. 

The best we can do to sum up our experience would be to quote 

our son who several times, after facing another challenge in the amazing 

journey we were experiencing, turned to us and said “You know 

that there is no other place in the world where I would have wanted 

to go through this.” Indeed, no hospital and no country. Mi k’amcha 

Yisrael. Thank G-d, our son is doing well and feeling great. Hodu 

LaHashem Ki Tov Ki L’olam Chasdo. 

—Chaim and Aviva Wealcatch 

MORE THAN 45 PEOPLE GATHERED AT THE HOME OF ROBIN 

AND ROBERT WALDMAN IN POTOMAC, MD FOR AN EVENING 

THAT RAISED AWARENESS AND SUPPORT FOR SHAARE ZEDEK. 

Pictured are: Mid-Atlantic Director Barbie Porcelain, co-chairs Dr. Gordon and Myra 

Gondos, co-chairs Robert and Robin Waldman, Michael Stiglitz, Miami-Dade and 

Broward Director Debbie Gold and Executive Vice President Paul S. Glasser.


S OUTHEAST R EGION 

FALL WOMEN’S LUNCHEON HONORING BATZIE BERMAN 

Shaare Zedek Director of Pediatrics Prof. 

Francis Mimouni, Sisel Klurman and 

Southeast Regional Director Aliza Ranish 

Jennifer Dobin, Robin Waldman, 

Emily Ebner and Elizabeth Ebner 

Debbie Gold, Dr. Bill Berman, 

Guardian of Israel Awardee Batzie Berman 

and Paul S. Glasser 

Emily Ebner, Mojdeh Khagan Danial 

and Debbie Gold 

Attendees of the first meeting of the new Southeast Regional Board. 

Seated (left to right): Hanna Posniak, Rose Nagler, Inez Shechtman and Geri Reiter. 

Standing (left to right): Debbie Gold, Dorothy Kravetz, Doron Rachman, 

Paul S. Glasser, Josh Galitzer, Anat Goldstein and Aliza Ranish. 

I LOVE LUCY LUNCHEON HONORING 

LUCY WEISLIC 

Shaare Zedek’s Miami-Dade and Broward Director Debbie Gold, Woman 

of Valor Awardee Lucy Weislic, Executive Vice President Paul S. Glasser and 

Ann Arbesfeld 

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Tania Lapciuc and Lily Gabel 

Sherri Esformes, Debbie Gold 

and Jennifer Dobin

Pictured are (left to right): Dr. William and Debbie Rand, 

Dr. David Rand and Shaare Zedek’s Director of Medical Ethics 

Prof. Avraham Steinberg. 


Aliza Ranish and Paul S. Glasser with the 

evening’s sponsors, Dr. Bernard and Lenore Simmons 

Uri Schwarz, Debbie Gold, Aliza Ranish, 

Larry and Roslyn Jaffe and Becky and Philip Esformes 


S OUTHEAST R EGION 

The foremost authority on Jewish Medical Ethics and the Senior 

Pediatric Neurologist in the Department of Pediatrics at Shaare 

Zedek, Prof. Steinberg served as the Scholar-in-Residence at 

the Boca Raton Synagogue in December and shared some of his extensive 

expertise in topics such as stem cell research, defining death and 

the theory behind Jewish medical ethics. Dr. and Mrs. Rand recently 

joined the Southeast Regional Board. 

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PRE-CHANUKAH CELEBRATION AT PIER 66 

Aliza Ranish, Miriam and Hal Comings, Sonja 

and David Wexler, and Debbie and Joshua Galitzer 

Shaare Zedek Director of Public Relations 

Uri Schwarz, Paul S. Glasser, Aliza Ranish, 

and Larry and Leonore Zusman

Young Leadership Bowl-a-thon 2008 

This year’s Bowl-a-thon, co-chaired by H. Elisa Iteld and Jessica 

Lerer Yunger, proved to be the Young Leadership’s most successful event 

to date, with almost 200 bowlers at Bowlmor Lanes. The participants, 

geared in red Shaare Zedek wristbands and headbands raised more than 

$50,000 for the new Wilf Children’s Hospital. 

Strike it Rich 

Spare a Dime 

Jon and Barrie Krause 

and Allison, (Julia) and Seth Lyons 

The Winners 

(Best Combined Team Score) 

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Strikes for Tykes 

(Most Successful Fundraising Team, 

Most Successful Fundraiser Susan Canter and 

Best Individual Bowler Josh Schopf) 

The Pinheads 

Team Werewolf 

X 

The White Strikes


Children’s Champions Cruise 2008 

The Second Annual Children’s Champions Cruise which 

took place in October attracted almost 200 participants 

and raised more than $100,000. Proceeds from the event 

have gone to dedicate a Pediatric Intensive Care Bed Unit. Thank 

you to Cruise Co-Chairs: Emma and Bart Baum, Michelle and 

Elan Goldwyn, Talia and Sol Goldwyn, Michal and Aaron Gorin, 

Michelle and Michael Nachmani, Jordanna and Marc Nadritch, 

Monique and Andrew Rechtschaffen, Jennifer and Mark Smith, 

Daniella and Jonathan Sperber and Tanya and Darren Wolf. 

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Sharon Goldwyn, Bart and Emma Baum, 

Sol and Talia Goldwyn and Marc and Jordanna Nadritch 

Dana and Ilan Rubinstein, Elan and Michelle Goldwyn, 

Monique and Andrew Rechtschaffen, and Kenny Eichenbaum Michael and Michelle Nachmani 

Jordanna and Marc Nadritch and 

Daniella and Jonathan Sperber Tanya and Darren Wolf 

Sol Goldwyn, Andrew and Monique Rechtschaffen and Talia Goldwyn

What’s in a Name? 

Welcome to the New Shaare Zedek Tagline 

Israel is Counting on Us…To Cure and to Care 

Steve Price recently joined the Shaare Zedek Board of Governors. At last year’s annual 

meeting he was appointed as a member of the Executive Committee and as chair of the 

Branding sub-committee. Steve, who lives in Newport Beach California with his wife 

Deedee, is a recognized expert on Branding and has had numerous successes in rebranding 

companies where he has served as the CEO. Given his expertise, the Board called upon 

him to create a new tag line and branding concept for the Hospital. 

We asked Steve some questions about the initiative. 

Steve, how did you become involved in Shaare Zedek? 

Steve: My good friend Fayge Schwartz introduced me to Paul Glasser and then Paul introduced me to Prof. Halevy 

and Paul Jeser. I was very impressed with these individual’s commitment to Shaare Zedek, with their menschlichkeit, and 

most importantly, with the work of the Hospital. 

I quickly learned that Shaare Zedek plays a major role in treating patients from Jerusalem and throughout the country, 

even from around the world. This care is extraordinary and combines the newest technology with a personal approach to 

each individual patient. I also discovered their world-class research program, with departments that are achieving medical 

breakthroughs in fields such as stem cell research and other areas of need on a worldwide basis. Finding an institution that 

seamlessly combined this high degree of medical excellence with a deep commitment to Jewish Law in a non-discriminatory 

environment convinced me that Shaare Zedek was a uniquely special place. 

I realized that I could not find a more worthy way to make a contribution to Israel than to be a part of an organization 

that I can relate to, and which allows me to return to my Jewish roots in a meaningful way. 

So Steve, how has your experience related to the Branding Initiative? 

Steve: I talked to others at the Hospital; volunteers, staff, donors, etc. and found that my reasoning for becoming a 

part of the Hospital and donating to Shaare Zedek, was shared by all of the other individuals involved in the hospital, in one 

way or another. 

The fundamental principle of branding is to create a 

“reason why” individuals should do things to benefit themselves 

and the institution. Fortunately, these reasons were 

relatively universal, so we set about finding an easy, memorable 

way of saying WHY, in the most powerful way possible. 

The Committee worked hard to look at options and 

choose one that really resonated with a universal audience. 

OK, Steve, so what did you come up with? 

Steve: The tag line and branding is: Shaare Zedek 

Medical Center in Jerusalem 

“Israel is Counting on Us…To Cure and to Care” 

WE ARE NOT JUST ANOTHER HOSPITAL IN 

ISRAEL. WE MAKE ISRAEL STRONGER BECAUSE 

OF THE COMMITMENT WE HAVE TO OUR 

PATIENTS AND OUR ABILITY TO DELIVER THE 

RESULTS OF THIS EFFORT WITH OUR 

SPECIAL TALENT FOR COMBINING HIGH-TECH 

MEDICINE WITH COMPASSIONATE PATIENT 

CARE IN OUR UNIQUE ENVIRONMENT. 

This new brand explains that Shaare Zedek plays a vital role for Israel while maintaining a special relationship with 

the citizens of Jerusalem. We treat an ever growing number of patients, we are essential to the health of the country, and we 

treat each and every patient as if he/she were the only patient in the hospital. 

What better way to make a difference in what you care about. A cause that compels the support of donors, inspires the 

participation of volunteers, instills confidence in those in need of care, engenders support for our Centers of Excellence, and 

creates the passionate involvement of our professionals and staff, who are on a mission “To Cure and To Care” for those in need? 

I believe that in these turbulent times for charities, we need to communicate to donors that they should place us high 

on their charity list. We are not just another hospital in Israel. We make Israel stronger because of the commitment we have 

to our patients and our ability to deliver the results of this effort with our special talent for combining high-tech medicine 

with compassionate patient care in our unique environment. I hope all of Shaare Zedek’s friends and family will come 

together in the coming months to help this great institution in these trying times. 

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Recession-Proof 

Retirement 

E NSURING Y OUR F UTURE IS J UST A S TEP A WAY 

W HAT IS A S HAARE Z EDEK 

G IFT A NNUITY? 

It’s a contract under which the American Committee 

for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Inc., 

(authorized under New York) commits to paying a fixedrate 

lifetime annuity to one or two individuals in exchange 

for a contribution of cash or marketable securities. The 

fixed annuity rate is based on the age(s) of the annuitants 

and is drawn from Shaare Zedek’s gift annuity tables for 

one life or two lives. 

W HY P URCHASE 

O NE N OW? 

In these difficult times, individuals need to be sure 

that their fixed income investments are secure, and that the 

rates they receive are high enough to help them with their 

costs of living during retirement. Solid charitable organizations 

like the American Committee have been making 

regular and timely payments to annuitants for years during 

all kinds of investment markets. Our gift annuity reserve 

fund, required to be sufficient under regulations of the 

Over “ the years I have supported many worthy organizations, but Shaare 

Zedek is unique in its life saving mission, treating each and every patient 

with such compassion and love. I am proud to be supporting Shaare 

Zedek though the purchase of a gift annuity. Given today’s economy, this has been 

a win-win experience for ensuring my financial stability while also helping this 

great Hospital.” 

—Inez Shechtman, FL 

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New York State Insurance Department, assures our annuitants 

that their payments will always be made. 

W HAT ARE THE 

S HAARE Z EDEK G IFT 

A NNUITY R A TES? 

Our rates are generous – among the highest available. 

Here are some sample one-life rates: 

AGE RATE TAX-FREE PORTION 

OF ANNUAL ANNUITY* 

65 6.0% 67.9% 

70 6.5% 71.2% 

75 7.1% 74.6% 

80 8.0% 77.6% 

85 9.5% 81.9% 

90 11.3% 84.2% 

*assumes a contribution made in cash in March 2009. 

H OW C AN Y OU F IND O UT M ORE: 

Please call our Director of Finance Phyllis Reiss at 212-764-8057, fax to 212-221-0908 or email preiss@acsz.org, 

with your date(s) of birth and she will promptly send you a confidential calculation. That’s all it takes. No obligation. 

Now, more than ever, a Shaare Zedek Gift Annuity may be the 

safe philanthropic life-income investment you need to make.

The Shaare Zedek Family is eternally grateful to its donors who choose to support us at every giving level. 

The following is a list of those who donated $5,000 or above from January 2008 - February 2009. (Donors are 

listed in the category of this year’s contribution, unless this donation represents the first payment on a new pledge.) 

$5000 - $9,999 

Ralph and Honey Amado, 

Maurice Amado Foundation 

Sol and Zelda Berger 

Estate of Lillian Berinstein 

Estate of Louis Berman 

Dr. William and Batzion Berman 

Alvin z"l and Lois Blumenfeld 

Kathleen Brown 

Howard and Chanie Bryks 

Jack Cohen 

Estate of Ben Colloff 

Stanley and Sandy Deckelbaum 

Morris and Yelta Deckelbaum 

Nachshon Draiman 

Estate of Elizabeth Edelmuth 

Morris Felder 

Harvey and Esther Felsen 

Fink Foundation, Inc. 

Leon Finley Trust 

Robert and Pessia Frankel 

Sidney and Joyce Gamburg 

Joseph and Rae Gann 

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Garoon 

Marvin and Helena Goldstein 

Solomon S. and Talia Goldwyn 

Allan S. Gordon Foundation 

Emanuel and Riane Gruss 

Arie and Eva Halpern Family Foundation 

Jack Halpern 

Fred and Cheryl Halpern 

Marc and Suri Helwani 

Avi and Berly Hershkovitz 

Craig and Andrea Horowitz 

Mesdames Hanna and Irma Jacob 

Mr. and Mrs. Leon Jolson 

Lee Perelstine Kagan Charitable Trust 

Dr. Yitzchak and Abby Kanarek 

Mannon Kaplan 

Monica Kasley, Horseshoe Casino 

Dr. Martin and Shaynee Kessler 

Bob Kessler 

Bradford and Robin Klatt 

Israel and Tania Lapciuc 

Howard and Irene Levine 

Bernard Lewis 

Dr. Henry and Joan Lieberman 

Alex Liverant 

Greta Livingston 

Barry and Alisa Mannis 

Mark- Lis Family Philanthropic Fund 

Marshall and Gila Mauer 

Melanol Foundation 

Dr. Lou and Sybil Mervis 

Milken Family Foundation 

Nirenberg Foundation, Inc. 

Novartis Pharma 

Edward Pincover 

Dr. Lawrence and Wendy Platt 

Louis and Harold Price Foundation 

Ephraim and Gail Propp 

Benjamin and Yael Ringel 

Royce Philantrhropic Fund 

Mr. Samuel Maslansky, 

Rutenberg Family Foundation 

Lee and Anne Samson 

Dr. Martin Schetzen 

Joel and Judith Schreiber 

Robert and Jane Schwalbe 

Samuel and Caryn Schweitzer 

Heshe and Harriet Seif 

Barry and Doris Silverman 

Dr. Bernard and Lenore Simmons 

Mark and Jennifer Smith 

Abraham and Susan Stern 

David and Lois Temkin 

Dr. Jane and Warren Weiss, 

Applebaum Foundation Inc. 

Rabbi Moshe and Judith Tuchman 

Florence Weber 

Dr. Murray and Gloria Weinstock 

Dr. Daniel and Eileen Wohlgelernter 

Estate of George and Ethel Zuckman 

$10,000 - $24,999 

Ronald and Shira Abrams 

Kurt S. Adler 

Joseph Alexander Foundation, Inc. 

Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation, Inc. 

Sol and Lillian Ash Foundation 

Frank and Eva Bachrach 

Irving Barr 

Bart and Dr. Emma Laskin Baum 

Harvey and Jayne Beker 

Estate of Anne Bendix 

Harry H. Beren Trust 

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Stanley and Joyce Black 

David and Yvonne Boxerman 

Anlee Brickman 

CIBC World Markets Corp. 

Joseph and Claire Cohen 

Alan Dworkin 

Earle I. Mack Foundation, Inc. 

Dr. Gerald Eichner 

Kenneth Eisenberg 

Rosalie Engel 

Mimi Enzel 

Edith and Carolyn Everett 

Dr. Edward and Helen Ezrick 

Mark and Cheryl Friedman 

Stanley Ganer 

Mr. Alan J. Garfunkel 

Elliot and Deborah Gibber 

Bassie Gold 

Estate of Samuel N. Goldstein 

Elan and Michelle Goldwyn 

Fred Gould 

Liesel Gutmann 

Estate of Tana Gutmann 

Stephen and Eleanor Hammerman 

Hilda Hess 

Gladys Hirsch 

David and Barbara B. Hirschhorn Foundation 

Ben Zion and Naomi Hochstein 

Richard and Beverly Horowitz 

Iranian American Jewish Federation of NY 

Estate of Henry Isaacson 

Estate of Stanley N. Jacobs 

Milton Jacobs, 

Aaron and Marie Blackman Foundation 

Michael and Linda Jesselson 

Linda Tallen and David Kane Foundation 

Kermit Gittenstein Foundation, Inc. 

Raymond and Julie Kissel 

Prof. and Mrs. Benjamin J. Klebaner 

Morrey and Birdie Klein 

Eva and Richard Klein 

Samuel and Bertie Krieger 

Charles and Chick Krown 

Jules Laser 

Melach Lehman 

Dr. Larry and Teena Lerner 

Lester and Grace 

Maslow Foundation Inc.

Dr. Sanford and Glenda Mason 

Dr. Jack and Martha Matloff 

Joseph and Nazee Moinian 

Michael and Michelle Nachmani 

Nehemias Gorin Foundation 

Stephen and Nataly Neuwirth 

Estate of Margot Pape 

Alice Pearlman 

Hanna Posniak 

Steve and Deana Price 

Eugenia Propp 

Estate of William N. Morris 

and Betty Rashkov 

Thomas and Judy Raskin 

Andrew and Monique Rechtschaffen 

Estate of Leo Regan 

Eleanore Reznik 

Estate of Evelyn Richman 

Arthur Ritholtz 

Estate of Clara Rosenberg 

Estate of Karl Roth 

Estate of Maxie Rubenstein 

Ruth Lodge for Handicapped Children 

Sandelman Foundation 

Cyrla Sauerhaft 

Alice Schoenfeld 

Murry and Lori Shapero 

Romie and Blanche Shapiro 

Jeanette B. Smolarski 

Pinky and Ann Sohn 

Lloyd and Solange Jaffe, 

Spencer Raphael Jaffe Foundation 

Mark and Mae Spitz 

Estate of Pauline Stern 

Leah Susskind 

Abraham and Rochelle Tennenbaum 

Weinberg Guttman Family Foundation 

Felicia Weislic 

$25,000 - $99,999 

Maury and Ora Aaron 

Herman Altman 

Els Bendheim 

Harold Bernstein 

Marjorie Blenden 

Ludwig and Lotte Bravmann 

Estate of Helen Carmy 

Estate of Abraham Cohen 

Ezra and Renee Dabah 

Sanford and Helen Diller 

Estate of Thea Dratwin 


Howard L. Feldman 

Michael Forman 

Helene Frank 

Galter Foundation 

Louis Glick 

Estate of Celia Goldstein 

I. Lewis Gordon 

Prof. Jonathan Halevy 

Susie Julius 

Abi and Mona Kalimian 

Estate of Greta Kende 

Jack and Elisa Klein 

Sisel Klurman 

Dr. Ronald and Elizabeth Krinick 

Ronald, Lisa and Sarah Lavin 

Henrietta Leibowitz 

Dr. Paul and Esther Lerer 

Estate of Dr. Yale Lewine 

William and Fern Lowenberg 

Dr. Michael and Fern Malka 

Estate of Helene Marber 

Michael Morgenstern 

Dr. Ronald and Cheryl Nagel 

Rose Nagler 

Conrado and Dorotea Nathan 

Drs. Isaac and Etta Novick 

Robert Price, 

Price Family Foundation, Inc. 

Gabrielle R. Propp 

Barry and Harriet Ray 

Manuel Schneider Living Trust 

Carolyn Liebling, 

Seinfeld Family Foundation 

Jerry and Sandra Seligsohn 

William and Jane Senders 

David and Fela Shapell 

Jesse and George Siegel Foundation 

Estate of Hilde F. Slager 

William and Radine Spier 

Annenberg Foundation 

Isail and Salo Wagenberg 

Estate of Shirley Weinberg 

David and Ellie Werber 

Joyce Wishnick 

Harvey and Louise Wolinetz 

$100,000 - $499,999 

Jack and Giti Bendheim 

Stanley and Pamela Chais, 

Chais Family Foundation 

Haron Dahan 

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Francine Gani 

Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer 

Lionel and Ruth Fisch 

P. Gottlieb Family Trust 

Estate of Louis B. Kessler 

Edith Litwin 

Estate of Max Milians 

Ira and Mindy Mitzner 

Felix Najer 

Paul and Marcy Nathan 

Nader and Jeanette Ohebshalom 

Fred and Yvonne Ohebshalom 

Menno and Helen Ratzker 

Ira Leon and Inge Rennert 

Estate of Betty Rosenbaum 

Estate of Jack Ross 

Fela Rybsztajn-Grzymek 

Sato Family Foundation Inc 

Estate of George and Beatrice Schwartzman 

Inez Shechtman 

Shire U.S. Inc. 

Estate of Edith Spiegel 

Estate of Irene Stern 

Estate of Beverly Wachtel 

Estate of Louis White 

$500,000 + 

David and Sohaila Adelipour, 

Stefan Adelipour for Life Foundation 

Rabbi Jacob and Leah Friedman 

Phil and Rose Friedman 

Rabbi David and Anita Fuld 

Drs. Felix and Miriam Glaubach 

Eugen and Jean Gluck 

Iva Goldwurm 

Fanya, Ben and Beth Heller 

Murray and Laura Huberfeld 

Howard and Debbie Jonas 

Harvey and Gloria Kaylie 

Keidan Family Foundation 

Louis and Trudy Kestenbaum 

Charles and Seryl Kushner 

Murray and Linda Laulicht 

Drs. Jack and Gitta Nagel 

Philip and Monica Rosenthal 

Heidi Rothberg 

Jerry Wartski 

Leonard Wilf, 

Wilf Family Foundation 

* Please let us know if we have accidentally left your name off of this list and we will include you (with our greatest apologies) 

in our next listing.

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ANNUAL MIDWEST REGIONAL DINNER, CHICAGO 

Thursday, March 19th, 2009 

Horseshoe Casino 

Honoring Rick and Aria Mazer 

Emcee: Elliott Gould 

For more information call 847-410-0340 or email midwestregion@acsz.org 

WOMEN’S DIVISION ANNUAL LUNCHEON 

Thursday, June 11th, 2009 

Sotheby’s 

Honoring Tobi Rubenstein-Schneier and Poopa Dweck 

For more information call 212-764-8117 

NATIONAL DINNER 

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 

Pier 60 

For more information call 212-764-8116 

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