Request for TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE from social workers for a past Lemonade Fund recipient who has now been newly diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer that has spread to her bones. Patient needs rides to and/or from Taibe to Meir Hospital in Kfar Sava. Even driving...
Month: December 2013
November 2013 Profilee, A., Has Passed Away
The Lemonade Fund received a call from A.'s social worker today telling us that she had died. (Story of A., our November 2013 Profilee is copied below.) Rarely have we been as struck by an applicant, and I stood still and cried. A.'s sister is taking care of A's...
Event to Benefit the Lemonade Fund
ESRA Raanana THE YIDDISH FAMILY COOKBOOK THE GREAT IMMIGRATION A SOCIAL HISTORY THROUGH THE KITCHEN DOOR TUESDAY 24 DECEMBER 2013 at 10.30 A.M. BEIT FISHER, 5 KLAUSNER STREET, RA'ANANA This is a translation of a 100-year old unconventional cookbook by an immigrant...
November 2013- Profiles in Courage
The Lemonade Fund had a record number of applicants in November. Many stories, but one stands out in singular sadness and bravery: A. is a 32 year old mother of three young children living in the center of the country. She is of Ethiopian Jewish descent, and was...