V., an immigrant from Tajikstan, is a 33 year old married mother of 2 children. Her older son, age 8, is epileptic, autistic and violent. Soon after opening a kindergarten, V. was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer. Due to the side effects of treatment, V. is unable...
Every year at about this time, in mid July, I am stopped in my tracks for a few days. It is now eight years since life changed so remarkably for me. On July 18, 2010, I went for what I thought would be a routine mammogram. No reason to worry; no symptoms, no family...
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...