I have often said that if government social services were doing their job, we could close the Lemonade Fund. I could retire and learn to play bridge and our staff could find better paying jobs in hi-tech 🙂 I also know that certain societal ills are entrenched, like...
September is Gynecological Cancer Awareness and with approximately 7,000 women diagnosed with gynecological malignancies and pre-cancerous conditions in Israel every year, this is incredibly important. We are beginning to understand the urgency for...
I come here once a year to write personally. Not as the Founder and Director of the Lemonade Fund, but as my younger self who went to my yearly routine mammogram in the summer of 2010 only to learn that I likely had breast cancer. The diagnosis was confirmed two days...
It was so refreshing to meet with Naomi Eisenberger and Julie Fischer and their team from the Good People Fund on their annual trip to Israel last month. We shared with them our plans to expand reach, our migration to online applications and plans to help even...
Thanks to Guy Tavori and the ALL.CAN-Israel initiative, Lemonade Fund representatives attended a special session of the Knesset Health Committee on the challenges of closing gaps to provide quality oncology services in the periphery. The session took place as part of...
In 2024 the Lemonade Fund awarded a record number of grants to underprivileged Israeli cancer patients in order to alleviate their financial stress. The Lemonade Fund, (Israel’s first and only breast cancer emergency relief fund,) provides newly diagnosed...
I learned a great deal from a recent webinar entitled “Managing Financial Toxicity: Addressing the Hidden Costs of Cancer” hosted by our colleague and supporter Shareshet, the national organization for the U.S. Jewish Breast & Ovarian Cancer community. There were...
A study published by researchers from the Radiation Oncology Department, Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the School of Behavioral Sciences at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo revealed...
Thirteen years ago this week I was diagnosed with breast cancer during a routine mammogram. Out of the blue…no risks, no family history - ‘shocked’ is an understatement. And suddenly I found myself in a world of illness, isolation and fear. Thank God, I had good care...
June is usually a “slow” month. The school year winds down, summer plans are hatched, and the heat invariably rises as we usher in the Israeli summer. This June is different. The ongoing war is taking a toll on everyone; it’s hard to plan amid so much uncertainty....