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ARE Shabbat. It’s a Shabbat that goes a step further
than just bringing awareness to breast cancer. Other
than skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common
cancer among women. However, millions of women are sur-
viving due to one simple thing … early detection.
Whether a woman is attempting to reduce the risk of
breast cancer or increase the chances of finding it early,
she needs to get tested. That is the goal of CARE Shabbat,
which was launched by Congregation B’nai Moshe of West
Bloomfield in October 2014.
CARE stands for “Congregations Advocating Regular
Exams” and is a way to provide women with
the support and testimonies of hope from
survivors — a powerful tool in the fight
against breast cancer.
This year’s speaker at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct.
21, at the shul is Sarah Yerke of the American
Cancer Society.
In the inaugural year of CARE Shabbat,
B’nai Moshe invited Shabbat attendees to
come to synagogue dressed in pink to show
they care. The sanctuary and Kiddush were
decked out in pink and a survivor, Lisa Soble
Siegmann, spoke from the bimah of her
story of beating cancer when she learned
through testing that cancer might actually
be beating her.
ABOVE: Pink bracelets help spread the
All in attendance who had battled breast
love at Congregation B’nai Moshe. cancer, are currently battling breast cancer
TOP: Geralyn Lucas and Steven Fine. or who had been directly affected by a friend
or family member with breast cancer were
invited on to the bimah where the rabbi recited a special
prayer of healing and the entire congregation joined in sing-
ing Debbie Friedman’s “Mi Shebeirach.” The bimah was full,
and it was a wonderful feeling of family, of support, of com-
munity.
As inaugural keynote speaker Soble Siegmann explained
why she was speaking, she quoted Talmud: “If you save one
person, it’s as if you have saved the world.” There is no doubt
her actions, along with those of B’nai Moshe, saved many
worlds that Shabbat.
B’nai Moshe has been honored to have had other CARE
Shabbat speakers, such as renowned author and speaker
Geralyn Lucas, noted breast cancer surgeon Eric Brown and
Arlene Haber, who lost her daughter to cancer.
Geralyn Lucas was a driving force, along with B’nai Moshe
Executive Director Steven Fine, in making this a global ini-
tiative.
Congregation B’nai Moshe invites all congregations to join
the mission in 2017 by showing they CARE. •