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February 4, 2011
Chai Lifeline to send 12-year-old to the Super Bowl
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Adam Wolf and his counselor, Shlomo Platschek
Adam Wolf, a 12-year-old with cerebral palsy, was stunned when Randi Grossman, West Coast director of the Chai Lifeline, called to tell him that the organization would pay for him to go to the Super Bowl.
“He said, ‘Are you kidding me? This is amazing,’” Wolf’s mother, Ali Wolf, said.
“And then he said, ‘Mommy, I’m going to the Super Bowl.’”
Ali Wolf said that the news has bolstered her son’s spirits. Adam, who has never been to a football game before, is having surgery on his left hand in late-February and has missed a lot of school to go to doctor’s appointments.
“Adam has been going through a lot, and we knew this would be a trip of a lifetime for him,” Chai Lifeline’s Grossman said.
“We’d like to choose everyone, but obviously we’re limited with the number of tickets we get,” she added.
Adam is one of quadruplets in a family with seven children in Irvine and has attended Camp Simcha Special in New York the past two summers. The camp, designed for kids with chronic or genetic illnesses, is a program of Chai Lifeline, which provides a variety of services for seriously ill children.
He is going to the game with a counselor from Camp Simcha Special, Shlomo Platschek. Chai Lifeline, which received a donation from LH Financial Services to help pay for Adam’s trip, is covering Platschek’s costs too.
After Platschek, a 19-year-old from Far Rockaway, N.Y., and Adam met at camp, the two became close.
Platschek said that nowadays, he and Adam talk on the phone several times everyday.
“He’s like a little brother to me,” Platschek said.
The Super Bowl is Sunday, Feb. 6. Adam is rooting for the Green Bay Packers, who are playing the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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That’s wonderful! I hope Adam has a wonderful trip. Perhaps this bit of news about Ex-Steeler Randy ‘The Rabbi’ Grossman will sway Adam over to the Black & Gold? From http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/02/01/2742805/the-rings-the-thing-ex-steeler-randy-the-rabbi-grossman-recalls-glory-days “The Rabbi” would ascend the championship bimah four times in his eight years playing for the Steelers’ dynasty. His four Super Bowl rings are the most among any Jewish player.
Either way Adam and Shlomo Mazel Tov and have safe trip and make great memories!
- Comment by Scott Silver on 2/04/11 at 4:46 pm
PS is Randi Grossman is related to Randy Grossman?!...
- Comment by Scott Silver on 2/04/11 at 4:52 pm
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I live in Dallas and would love to show Adam and Shlomo some sights of Dallas on Saturday afternoon or evening. Email me at byronrubin@gmail.com…
Enjoy the Super Bowl, Adam!