We at the Lemonade Fund often see how cancer can devastate a family financially in no time. E., a 73 year old Russian immigrant, lives with her unmarried daughter in a small apartment in a development town in the south. Until E. was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast...
M. and her husband, a gentle couple in their mid-sixties, recently made aliyah from South America. Despite their limited Hebrew, they found jobs and were doing well. Within the last year, M.'s husband was laid off from his job and M. discovered a lump and was...
When Men Get Breast Cancer The Lemonade Fund is sharing this story to raise awareness that though quite rare, 1% of breast cancer strikes men. Men need to be alert to any lumps or changes in their chests.
To the Lemonade Fund: My name is I.Z. I made aliyah (moved to Israel) with my mother, in 1995. I met and had a relationship with a man after arriving. It was a mistake, but out of this relationship a son was born to me in 1997, and his name is T. The father of the boy...
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...
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Stories of some of the remarkable women who received grants from the Lemonade Fund this month: R., a teacher and a single mother of two from Haifa, has been putting herself through law school in order to better the situation of her family. In the midst of this...
Yummy summer lemon recipe The Lemonade Fund shares another cool lemon recipe. With thanks to Jamie Geller, www.joyofkosher.com, (Congrats and welcome to her, too, on her recent aliyah, move to Israel.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/30/happiness-genes-activity-inflammation_n_3677666.html Do it for your genes. Live longer. Choose a cause that means something to you and get involved. Many good causes out there. One suggestion: Lemonade Fund welcomes volunteers,...
Financial Cost of Having Cancer Suleika Jaouad, age 24, has been chronicling her experience with cancer. In this column she touches on the financial cost of having cancer. Even with universal health insurance (as we have here in Israel,) the ancillary costs of a...