Yafit had the kind of childhood that would break most people. Until she was 7, she knew nothing but poverty and fear in her village in Ethiopia. Then her parents made her and her siblings flee, walking through deadly terrain in the blindness of night for a month and a half, never knowing whe…
Many know cervical cancer as the disease’s most preventable form. But it’s a very different story in Eastern Europe, where the topic is taboo.
When Icó Tóth was diagnosed in 2011 after the birth of her daughter, she struggled to find any information at all about her condition in Hunga…
In Eastern Europe, a diagnosis of breast cancer can bring as much loneliness as pain. When Bori Halom of Budapest was diagnosed in 2012, she blogged her experience out of a need to break the silence. Soon it grew into a support group for fellow Hungarian breast cancer patients and survivors …
Before she joined the Intergeneration program in Budapest, 80-year-old Mariann rarely told people she had survived the Holocaust—or even that she was Jewish.
“For 70 years, we were afraid to tell our stories. But because of this program, I got the courage to tell my friends and neighbor…
Bryan had it made. With help from The Jewish Agency for Israel, he fulfilled his dream of trading LA smog for clean Galilee air. Every day, he returned from work to greet his wife and children, and grab a cold brew from a stocked fridge. Life was ideal.
Then it happened. Celiac disease, whi…
