A gift for the Gift of Life
July 17, 2018 by Community newsdesk
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EndreyThe acclaimed director, Moira Blumenthal, has dedicated a performance of The Man in the Attic to raise awareness about Gift of Life’s life-saving program. Read more
A miraculous match
June 16, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Filed under Gift of Life, News
A Melbourne leukaemia patient has met the Sydney donor whose stem cells have saved his life…and both men were originally from South Africa. Read more
A fair go at Moriah
November 11, 2014 by
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Gift of Life volunteers and donors at Sydney’s Moriah College Fair have learned that a donation made at the same venue last year has proved positive and that a life-saving match had been found. Read more
Call to Australian rabbis to seek community help
October 2, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
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The Gift of Life is appealing to all rabbis throughout Australia to ask suitable members of their congregations at Yom Kippur services to donate blood in an effort to save six Jewish lives. Read more
The Gift of Life – the Fight for Life
September 25, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
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Judy Baxt is a 46-hr-old schoolteacher chronic leukaemia which will not kill her – but it has placed her in a life threatening situation if her body is exposed to infection. She needs a bone marrow transplant…and she needs a Jewish match. Read more
Gift of Life runs City to Surf
August 12, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
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Among the 80,000 running and walking the City to Surf event in Sydney yesterday were several volunteers from Gift of Life Australia. Read more
The Gift of Life
July 15, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
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Sarah is five and in need of the Gift of Life…matching blood stem cells or bone marrow to give her the opportunity of a normal healthy life. Read more
The Gift of Life
April 11, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
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A Sydney-based lawyer whose life had been doomed through an aggressive case of leukemia will shortly meet the American whose stem cells were a perfect match…granting him the Gift of Life. Read more
Gift of Life at work
July 24, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
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Three men linked to each other through the Gift of Life donor program have met Australian program organiser Shula Endrey-Walder in New York. Read more
Sydney’s turn to try to save a life
December 2, 2009 by Henry Benjamin
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Melbourne paediatrician Les Markman is dying from leukaemia and his only hope for survival is a blood/stem cell/bone marrow transfusion from a suitable donor. The odds? 10,000-1. Read more