Many applicants to the Lemonade Fund this month. Here are two stories: M. is a French immigrant with four teenage children and a husband who became too disabled to work, after their arrival. Until her recent diagnosis with breast cancer, M. had been the sole...
Five years post diagnosis... what's been learned
The Lemonade Fund is an Israeli organization that gives financial assistance to needy Israeli breast cancer patients who are in active treatment, Recently, a local friend and supporter of the Lemonade Fund needed help herself... help of a different kind. She knew it...
Veronica, 40, a 2012 immigrant from the Ukraine, was diagnosed with stage IIIB breast cancer soon after her arrival in Israel. She is fortunate to have a devoted 16 year old daughter who came to Israel a few years earlier as part of high school program for lone...
Can we ask you to please LIKE our page, http://www.facebook.com/IBCERF? Thanks!The Israel Breast Cancer Emergency Relief Fund, IBCERF, was founded to provide short-term and immediate financial assistance to Israeli breast cancer patients during their first year of...
Yesterday evening, David and I were driving to a doctor's appointment in Rishon Letzion, a suburb of Tel Aviv. I wasn't anxious about the appointment, nor was I nervous about venturing out of our relatively sheltered northern community. Life in the center of Israel...
HOT APPLE CIDER LEMONADE 1 gal. apple cider 6 oz. lemonade 6 oz. orange juice 1/2 c. brown sugar 1 tbsp. whole cloves 1 tbsp. whole allspiceCombine cider, lemonade, orange juice and brown sugar in pan. Heat over medium heat. Place spices in cheese cloth and add to...
IBCERF Grant made this morning, September 13, 2012, to G.: G., 31, was smuggled into Israel, by way of Egypt, from the Ukraine. Like so many other young women, she was promised work in Israel, only to discover, too late, that the 'work' was forced prostitution. After...
To the Israel Breast Cancer Emergency Relief Fund (IBCERF): When I received the difficult news that I had a serious disease, I felt complete destruction. I experienced how in one moment my world crumbled, my home was destroyed, my body - wrecked. I felt as if the last...