1 in nine

December 2, 2010 - 12:00 PM by Jessica · Leave a Comment
Filed under: education, General, health, Life

A good friend just hosted a Breast Cancer Awareness workshop. I didn’t attend this particular one, but have hosted and attended others, and want to let other women know how to set this up.

Created by the One in Nine organization in Israel — which works to raise public awareness of breast cancer and advance breast health in Israel — the workshops can be run in private homes, places of business, anywhere where a group of women can sit comfortably, listen, and spend some time examining the silicon breast models that are used for demonstrating how to check one’s breasts.

The process is easy: Contact the One in Nine facilitator, Maya Ohana, who will connect you with an English or Hebrew-speaking facilitator in your area. Invite your women — not too many, because you want to have enough time to pass around the ‘breasts’ and ask and answer questions. It costs NIS 600 per workshop, and people can be asked to pay a fee or some prefer to sponsor the evening in memory of a loved one who died from breast cancer.

My friend noted a few things about the evening. She felt that everyone learned how to create a routine of early detection in Israel, from using the silicon breast models for seeing what one is trying to find, to calling your health clinic and scheduling an appointment with a breast surgeon — no referral necessary.

Start with the One in Nine website, with information in both Hebrew and English about breast health, breast workshops and other relevant information.

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Will we live in a Flat world?

September 24, 2009 - 12:21 PM by Nicky · 1 Comment
Filed under: health, Life, Movies

With one in eight women likely to get breast cancer at one time or another in their lives, it’s a topic that makes an awful lot of women extremely nervous. Israeli film maker and breast cancer survivor Nitsana Bellehsen decided to take a different approach – humor.

Her film, Flat, which has been selected as the only Israeli finalist in the Breast Fest Film Festival in Toronto, tackles the subject of the rising rates of breast cancer with a sense of black absurdity that leaves you both concerned and amused at the same time.

In her short four minute film, Nitsana – who does many of ISRAEL21c’s video features on YouTube – leaps ahead to 2050 to see what the world will look like. It’s not pretty.

You can watch the movie here, and don’t forget to vote. Voting closes on October 15.

A teaser follows.