The Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation’s Seventh Annual Partners for Life Gala was a spectacular celebration as transplant recipients from all walks of life met their life-saving donors for the very first time!
Together with Gift of Life, HAFTR parents organized a recruitment campaign to find a genetically matched bone marrow donor for Dr. Barry Mishkin, z”l, who was suffering from leukemia.
Donor, 22 year old Yisrael Meir Goldman, was thrilled to have the opportunity to finally meet the person with whom he now shares such an extraordinary bond, Evie Goldfine.
Nearly 15 years ago, Gift of Life was established as a grass roots effort to increase the number of donors of Jewish ancestry in international registries.
The Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation’s Sixth Annual Partners for Life Gala, held on May 4 at New York’s Grand Hyatt, was a wonderful evening of magical moments and miracle meetings.
In 1991, news of then New Jersey resident Jay Feinberg’s struggle to find a donor to rescue him from leukemia inspired thousands to get involved in the campaign to save his life.
