Rabbi Latz Shaves His Head for Cancer
Rabbi Latz of Shir Tikvah will join over 60 male and female Reform Rabbis when they shave their heads to raise awareness of and funding for pediatric cancer research.
Goodbye Superman Sam, from a Pissed Off God
Goodbye Superman Sam
Prayer For A Shattered Heart
For Phyllis Sommer & Michael Sommer & everyone else whose heart is shattered.
Cancer-Sucks Awareness Month: 28 Months Post-Transplant
Two years ago I welcomed Elul with a sense of deep foreboding. After living with my own mortality, wrestling with continuing to make a life for myself in the midst of life-threatening illness, shifting relationships, months during which I could not eat and was kept alive with intravenous nutrition, at the High Holidays I could not reflect on my life or consider my mortality. I was still having nightmares that I was in a room full of people talking, laughing, and eating, only I couldn’t. I was pretty sure I would never fast again.
Buildings and Bridges: Ani DiFranco Chanting Eicha
26 Months Post-Bone Marrow Transplant.
Leukemia: A Love Story
“Wow, I like her,” I thought. “A lot. I would go anywhere with her.”
Dodging The Cancer Bullet
Angelina Jolie’s recent decision to undergo a proactive double mastectomy prompted Julie Burton to write about her own experience with breast cancer.
