Wellness and Healthy Living
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Noah: Facing Journeys With Strength
Excerpted from a Pink Shabbat D’var Torah In the Bible, we learn the story of Noah- a man who was…
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Who Are You Calling Saggy?
Mammograms are not particularly pleasant. Also in the unpleasant category- getting a letter from the breast imaging center informing you…
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Living a Healthy Life
What does a healthy life mean to you? I thought I was healthy when I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer…
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Something That Felt Like Hope
Excerpted from her remarks at Temple Beth Torah’s Sharsheret Pink Shabbat on May 3, 2015. I was 8 months pregnant…
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New Reflections on an Old Prayer
“On Rosh Hashanah it is inscribed And on Yom Kippur it is sealed How many shall die and how many shall be…
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My First Triathlon
I went to high school with Rochelle Shoretz and she epitomized what it meant to be larger than life. Three…
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Swim – Bike – Run – Repeat
If someone had told me that one day I would run to spin class, spin, and then run three miles…
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Let’s Talk Turkey
After cooking and eating the equivalent of many Thanksgiving meals from Rosh Hashanah through the holiday of Sukkot, the last…
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May We All Go From Strength to Strength
When my youngest daughter was four months old, I was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer. With my newborn, I…
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Reporting From ASCO: Obesity and Breast Cancer
A study presented this week at the 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting suggests that in younger…
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Running For All the Mommies
There are certain moments in life that you can forever replay in your mind as if they just happened. One…
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Meet Our Marathon Athletes
Meet our incredible Team Sharsheret athletes who will be running the ING NYC Marathon on Sunday. Click on each athlete’s…
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Sharsheret Site Visit and Launch of Financial Wellness Tool Kit
The Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York (JWFNY) visit to Sharsheret headquarters the other day just impressed us all. We…
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Keeping Company With Anxiety
The holiday of Shavuot celebrates the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai. It is recorded…
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Two Half-Marathons For One Great Cause!
Meet our incredible Team Sharsheret athletes who will be running the NYC Half-Marathon and the Germantown, TN Half-Marathon on Sunday,…
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Finding Humor
The holiday of Purim celebrates the overcoming of Haman’s plot to exterminate the Jews – a pretty serious and scary…
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Biking and Blessings For Cancer Survivors
Just returned from a 90th birthday celebration bike ride from Boston to Newport (Rochelle Shoretz’s 40th and my 50th). The…
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The Strength Of Survivors
I never signed up for this…..and one of the major items on that list was cancer. So you’d think—and I…
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Finding Strength In My Local Community Program
On Monday, April 2nd 2012, I had the privilege of being asked to speak at a Sharsheret Supports Breast Cancer…
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Big Hats and Big Hope in Texas
I just returned from the 34th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS), where Sharsheret hosted an exhibit booth to…