"Facing cancer during COVID-19 was isolating. Sharsheret made sure I didn't go through it alone. Sharsheret needs YOUR SUPPORT now more than ever before. So please make your year-end donation TODAY." Read more here.
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Join us tomorrow night, at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST for a free national webinar:
Managing Cancer Care During COVID-19. Come hear from Dr. Steven Peskin, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Joanna Fawzy Morales, Esq., Triage Cancer, as they explore how health care is working to keep you safe, and how to maximize telehealth appointments. Your insurance questions and concerns will be addressed before the current open enrollment period ends.
This webinar is made possible with generous support from The Siegmund and Edith Blumenthal Memorial Fund.
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Join us on Wednesday, December 9th at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST for a free national webinar: Beyond BRCA: Myths and Facts About Our Cancer Risk.
Come hear from Sharsheret's Genetics Program Coordinator, Peggy Cottrell, MS, CGC, as she discusses the latest gene mutations such as ATM, PALB2, CHEK2, and Lynch Syndrome, and how they increase genetic risk of cancer in both men and women. Peggy will cover breast cancer, ovarian cancer, male breast cancer, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, uterine cancer, and melanoma.
Email Yael Baldinger to submit questions you want addressed during the webinar, or for more information.
This webinar is made possible with generous support from The Siegmund and Edith Blumenthal Memorial Fund; The Cooperative Agreement DP 19-1906 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Basser Center for BRCA; AstraZeneca; and Max and Anna Baran, Ben and Sarah Baran and Milton Baran Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.
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Upcoming Hanukkah Cooking Demo With Nicole Dayani |
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Our "Sharsheret in the Kitchen" series brings nutritious meal options to our holidays. Help empower all of us at risk for breast and ovarian cancer to make healthy diet choices. Don't miss our next live cooking demonstration on Monday, December 7th at 3 pm EST/12 pm PST with LA-based Nicole Dayani.
Nicole will share delicious kosher Persian recipes that bring a healthy spin to our Hanukkah meals.
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Join us on Tuesday, December 15th at 3 pm EST/12 pm PST for a national and free interactive training that runs one hour. It is appropriate for health care professionals who have contact with patients, including doctors, nurses, social workers, genetic counselors and patient navigators. Free continuing education credit may be available through ACCME, ASWB and NYSW.
Content includes the importance of culturally competent cancer care for all, genetic information and cultural nuances, as well as an introduction to the free resources Sharsheret can provide for you and your patients.
This training is in partnership with the Susan G. Komen LA to NYC Virtual Metastatic Breast Cancer Conference.
For questions or for more information, please contact Melissa Rosen.
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Celebrate #GivingTuesday By Making A Kid Smile |
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This #GivingTuesday donate a Busy Box. The Busy Box is free for parents of young children, and includes parenting resources as well as toys and games. Tools for parents suggest how to talk with children about cancer, and are especially helpful right now, during this challenging and uncertain time. Carefully selected games and toys are a great surprise and help keep kids engaged while their mom is facing breast or ovarian cancer.
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Sign Up For Ina, A Virtual Personal Nutrition Assistant |
Whether you are at risk, recently diagnosed, living with cancer, or have completed your cancer treatment, a healthy diet is an important part of your breast or ovarian cancer journey. Eating well can be extremely beneficial and can help you reduce your risk, maintain a healthy weight, and face side effects of treatment. It is important to try to maintain healthy nutrition habits before, during and after treatment.
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New Team Sharsheret Opportunities! |
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Join the #TeamSharsheret tag on the Peloton interface and meet your family and friends on the leaderboard with Sharsheret's Peloton initiative.
Register as an individual or team of friends and family. Create a personalized peer-to-peer fundraising page on our site. It’s fun, easy and we will give you all the tools you need to run a successful campaign. Thank you to Bernstein Liebhard and GSK for supporting Team Sharsheret.
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2021 is Sharsheret Pink Day, a worldwide movement through which thousands of people help save lives by raising awareness about breast and ovarian cancer and genetics.
Wear pink, lead an educational or fundraising event, and distribute free Sharsheret resources and giveaways or join us for a Pink Day Pink Challah Bake with Mandylicious: The Challah Guru on Wednesday, February 10 at 5pm PST / 8pm EST.
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Sharsheret Names New President And Vice President to Board of Directors For 2021 |
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Sharsheret, is proud to name Stacy Smollin Schwartz (left) as the new incoming President and Jordanna Nadritch (right) as the new incoming Vice President of the Board of Directors in 2021. We are incredibly grateful to Jonathan Blinken as he completes his term as President. Jonathan will stay on as Immediate Past President in the year ahead.
Stacy Smollin Schwartz has been a volunteer consultant to Sharsheret since 2013, and has been a supporter ever since. Stacy joined the Board of Directors in 2016 and assumed the Vice President role in 2018. Stacy is an award-winning marketing professor at Rutgers Business School, where she leads a new, fully online Master of Science degree program in Digital Marketing.
Jordanna Nadritch joined the Sharsheret Board of Directors in April, 2019, and is a Senior Legal Editor for the Bankruptcy & Restructuring service of Practical Law at Thomson Reuters. Jordanna lost her mother to breast cancer in 2008 and became involved with Sharsheret in 2013 when she began to identify as a cancer previvor, and is an active Sharsheret volunteer.
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Sharsheret Program Participants In The Press! |
“I wish I knew before my mastectomy that there’s no benefit to being scared. The best thing you can do ahead of time is to have a positive attitude. Have hope!” — Dana Kaplan Richter.To learn more tips about what to expect before having a double mastectomy click here.
"I knew from the beginning that I needed to be open, and I needed people around me. I needed a support system,” — Stacy Deem. To read more about Stacy's year with breast cancer click here.
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Join us this Saturday night, December 5th for “A Night of Laughter on Us.” This evening of comedy is FREE, and is being sponsored by Daily Giving in partnership with Sharsheret. The LIVE online event will feature nationally known comedian Elon Gold. Comedian Eli Lebowicz will also be performing, and the event will be hosted by Eli Beer, the founder and President of United Hatzalah. Anyone who registers for the event automatically gets entered into a raffle for an Apple Watch!
Sharsheret is one of only 42 organizations to have been hand-picked as a beneficiary of Daily Giving’s donations. That means that every 42 days, Sharsheret receives a check from Daily Giving that helps support our programs that help women and families facing breast or ovarian cancer. If ten thousand donors join in their efforts, it will mean $10,000 every 42 days for Sharsheret. If 1% of Jews worldwide participated in Daily Giving, they would be contributing $145,000 to each organization every 42 days! This could ultimately mean over a million dollars a year being distributed to Sharsheret, all for the cost of only a dollar a day.
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December 2020 | Sharsheret | Phone | Fax | info@sharsheret.org | www.sharsheret.org |
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