Ensuring Uninterrupted Access to Oncology Treatments Soon after the war began on October 7, 2023, the Lemonade Fund immediately launched an emergency fund for wartime grants (NIS 1800 each) to ensure support for uninterrupted oncology care and to fill the gap...
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Empowering the Periphery
The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) Empowering the Periphery The Lemonade Fund Empowering the Periphery program provides additional funds to recipients of emergency financial relief grants for Israeli citizens with breast and other cancers who live in Israel’s...
Seasonal E-Greeting Cards
Twice a year, the Lemonade Fund invites supporters to send meaningful e-cards in honor of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana) and in lieu of Mishloach Manot for Purim. The proceeds of the e-cards go directly to support emergency financial aid for Israeli breast...
Profiles in Courage -Summer 2018
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...
Eight Years…
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...
Profiles in Courage – May 2016
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...
Financial Cost of Having Cancer
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/13/life-interrupted-the-cost-of-cancer/?smid=fb-shareFinancial 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...
Hot Lemonade for October
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...