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 →

Team SharsheretING NYC MarathonNovember 7, 2010… Continue reading →

Rochelle Shoretz, Founder and Executive Director of Sharsheret … Continue reading →

Dear Linda, Chani, Gila, Cheryl, Joe and Moe, Less than a year ago, Moe Rice and I began discussing the ways in which Sharsheret could generate awareness about our 10 national programs. His big beef with me – and rightly so – was that more people needed to know about all… Continue reading →

By: Pamela Wolfe, Sharsheret Peer SupporterEvery day for the past two and a half years, breast cancer has been a part of my life. It is a subject I live and breathe, and on any occasion, I’ll gladly try to educate others or answer questions. It is a subject I feel very… Continue reading →