By: Rochelle Shoretz, Sharsheret Founder and Executive DirectorI have spent the last four days attending the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, an annual conference at which clinicians, research scientists and advocates gather to share the most recent research on the diagnosis… Continue reading →

By: Rochelle Shoretz, Sharsheret Founder and Executive DirectorAs Sharsheret staff members travel around the country, we are constantly asked, “What more can we do to help ourselves” Now we have clinical data suggesting that obesity at diagnosis is associated with inferior… Continue reading →

By: Rochelle Shoretz, Founder, Executive DirectorLast week, I had the pleasure of speaking in Philly before a group of 75 women of all walks of Jewish life. I met some of our Peer Supporters and Callers from the area (we have 41), and recruited 10 new women to join our national… Continue reading →

By: Shera Dubitsky, MEd, MA, Sharsheret Clinical SupervisorChanukah celebrates the miraculous victory and survival of the Jewish people. In our history, we see that miracles often follow times of despair and hopelessness, testing our very core as individuals and as a community.… Continue reading →

This Thanksgiving Sharsheret is thankful for YOU - our incredible volunteers and supporters and the inspiring women, families, and communities we are privileged to serve.Help us spread the spirit of gratitude this week. Post your message of thanks by adding your comments below… Continue reading →

By: Jamie Rashty, Sharsheret Student VolunteerAs a fifteen year-old teenage girl I never really thought about breast cancer as a disease that affects thousands of women all over the world every day. I never considered breast cancer at all until October 28th, 2010. That day,… Continue reading →

Dear Aharon, Brad, David, Ilana, Mark, Oliver, Scott, Shari, Tobi and Tyler, You are helping us make Sharsheret history. Our first ever marathon team – all of you – will take to the streets as Team Sharsheret on Sunday. We have been cheering you on as you have raised… Continue reading →

By: Rochelle Shoretz, Sharsheret Founder and Executive DirectorI was saddened to read in The Jewish Week a first person account of one anonymous woman's struggle to live with serious illness and date in the Orthodox community. As the Founder and Executive Director of Sharsheret,… Continue reading →

By: Reva Borgen, Sharsheret Peer Supporter After getting the dreaded diagnosis of breast cancer, "luck" was not part of my vocabulary. That all changed when I sat down at my computer in the middle of the night and sent a desperate message to a fledgling organization that… Continue reading →

By: Jennifer Coleman, Sharsheret Peer SupporterToday I received some of the best, most relieving news of my life: I tested negative for the breast cancer gene!After losing my mother to breast cancer when she was 47, and I was 15, I asked every OBGYN I saw, at different ages of… Continue reading →

By: Lisa Friedman, Ph.D., Sharsheret Peer Supporter I recently attended the annual conference for FORCE (Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered), the national organization for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. I was so happy to see Sharsheret’s exhibit booth there,… Continue reading →

By: Shera Dubitsky, Clinical SupervisorBeginning in the Hebrew month of Elul until Yom Kippur, we hear the piercing notes of the Shofar and listen intently to its sounds. The reverberations of the Shofar can be heard in times of battle. I liken the sound to a heart beat. Most of… Continue reading →

Rochelle Shoretz Teaneck, New JerseyHow is your Hero working to make the world a better placeA self starting figure at the helm of Sharsheret, a national breast cancer organization, Rochelle is a Jewish Hero to the thousands of young Jewish women and families facing breast… Continue reading →

Register with Team Sharsheret today and join thousands of women and men gathering in New York City's Central Park to participate in the Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure, a monumental breast cancer fundraising and awareness event to be held on Sunday, September 12, 2010, 8:30… Continue reading →

This year’s Sharsheret Benefit was a great tribute to the women (and the fabulous male speaker) who have faced cancer in battle – and survived. The support Sharsheret gives to women going through the difficult emotional and physical challenges of cancer treatment is… Continue reading →

By: Ellen Kleinhaus, Project Manager and Campus Liaison I had the privilege of spending this past weekend with Sharsheret’s Founder and Executive Director Rochelle Shoretz at the Alpha Epsilon Pi International Convention in New Orleans.“As a young woman, I likely fantasized… Continue reading →

By: Rose Brystowski, Sharsheret Peer SupporterEveryone has fantasies. I fantasize about long-lost relatives. We are reunited, living close, and sharing happy lives together. Unfortunately, fantasies are just that - dreams. It is hard enough living with only memories and tales.… Continue reading →

Sharsheret's national teleconference and webinar, The Impact of the Holocaust on Breast Cancer in Jewish Families Today, recorded on July 14, 2010, featured Lital Keinan-Boker, MD, PhD, MPH, Faculty Member of the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies, University of Haifa,… Continue reading →