Bellmore kidney recipient meets donor's family

For the first time, Ava Jacobs, of East Meadow, on Tuesday met Linda Dolinger, who received her daughter Alexis' kidney. Jacobs had asked for the kidney of her 27-year-old daughter, who died in a skydiving accident, to be donated to Dolinger, of Bellmore, who suffered renal failure. “This is a story of an incredible young woman who had the courage to dream a heroic dream," Dr. Ernesto Molmenti said of the donor at a news conference Tuesday at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset. Molmenti performed the transplant at the hospital on June 6. Credit: Newsday / Yeong-Ung Yang; Photo Credit: Newsday / Yeong-Ung Yang; Jacobs family, Matt Jacobs