“What is Ezer Mizion? Is it the Jewish Bone Marrow Registry?” “I think it’s an organization that helps cancer patients. When my sister lived in Israel, her son was in the hospital off and on for months with leukemia. Ezer Mizion couldn’t do enough for the family. Meals at the hospital, rides, a beautiful apartment …
Dear Sir, Madam, It has been nearly a year since our repatriation to Israel. Sadly, the joy of our reuniting with the Motherland has been tragically damaged by the dramatic diagnosis – we are both ill with the stage 4 cancer, currently desperately fighting for our lives. Our treatments are taking place at the oncological …
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15 Tamuz 5778 To the blessed Ezer Mizion, who surely deserve to be praised, Their name sung and extolled, and their banner ever raised. The ones who have set as their mission and their supreme goal To help the ill and the needy, to comfort, aid, and console, To nurture and …
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I remember exactly where I was sitting. I remember the curious sun ray that peeked inside to see our new house, slid gracefully across the table, jumped down, gave the floor a luster, and flashed me a warm smile. Maybe it was trying to stroke my cheek, even before we ourselves knew that, just a …
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Dear Bracha and all the people at Ezer Mizion, I wanted to thank you for helping us get adjusted. Even before we had gotten to the hospital, you opened up your hearts and the doors of Ezer Mizion – Oranit and showered us with warmth and love.
Dear Ezer Mizion: Shalom u’verachah! I want to express my profound gratitude to the important chessed organization, Ezer Mizion. Two and a half years ago, my mother was stricken with cancer. She battled the illness for two years, until she passed on.
Dear Tamar, I consider it my privilege to express to you some of the enormous gratitude I have towards Ezer Mizion, and in particular, to Ophira Taylor and the entire staff of the chareidi Cancer Patient Support Division, headed by Blumi Willner. After already having lent your support to my family during my husband’s illness, …
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Things are ok now but nightmares are something that you never really get over. Hadas recalls those months of terror in the hospital with Maoz, her tiny son. “Ima, what are they doing to me?” he would ask. The chemo bag was marked ‘Danger’ and its contents were dripping into his little veins. Maoz looked …
Mistakes happen. Even computers have been known to slip up. But how the glitch is handled—that’s what ‘separates the men from the boys’. A Chinese auction held in Israel was a case in point. There were over 100,000 entries, each one bar-coded and entered into the auction. Except one. It received its bar code but …
The following message came to Ezer Mizion’s Cancer Patient Support Services staff. The message was sent by Racheli E., a young widow who lost her husband Eliav z”l recently. She wrote it to staff after her children returned from an Ezer Mizion trip for a group of youngsters who had lost a parent to cancer. …
