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Photo -- Mike Richman
Tamar Kaufman interviews Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in a San 
Francisco hotel room.
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Bulletin writer stricken by cancer; fund is started

GARTH WOLKOFF
Bulletin Staff

Tamar Kaufman, the Jewish Bulletin's most seasoned and 
accomplished writer, has terminal brain cancer.

At 43, she has survived cancer twice before. But the latest 
onslaught came without warning.

Two weeks ago, Kaufman left work on Wednesday after writing a 
front-page story on deadline. She complained about having a 
headache. By midday that Friday, doctors told her she had four 
lesions on her brain and that she would have to start radiation 
treatments that afternoon.

As senior writer of the Bulletin and in her private life, Kaufman 
has spent her adulthood championing the underdog, writing 
countless stories about -- and being personally involved in the 
causes of -- women's rights, the disabled, the underprivileged and 
Sephardim.

"She has always been a fighter, and she'll fight the cancer in 
every way possible," says her husband, Daveed Mandell.
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