ISRAEL
CANCER RESEARCH FUND
Learning
the Meaning
of Commitment
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Dr.
Yashar Hirshaut presents award to
Dr. Deborah Axelrod
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theme of the silver anniversary of Israel Cancer Research Fund was
“commitment.” To illustrate, Dr. Yashar Hirshaut, ICRF
president, told about a woman who watched two men at work. One man
was digging a hole, piling the earth neatly on the side. The other
man then shoveled the earth back into the hole.
The men moved on down the
street and again began to dig a hole, then refill it.
After watching them do this
several times, the woman couldn’t resist asking what they were
doing.
“We’re part of the
neighborhood beautification program,” the first man explained.
“I dig the hole. Irving puts in the tree. Then Joe here fills in
the hole. Just because Irving is sick, the rest of us shouldn’t do
our job?”
“That’s what I call
commitment,” Hirshaut said.
“ICRF is committed to
find an answer to the terror of cancer. Research is being done in
Israel where terror is a word well understood.”
Tower of
Hope emcee Jamie Colby-Wallack,
Fox 5 (left), with ICRF chairman Leah Susskind.
Photos
by Bill Stanton Photography |
Hirshaut presented the
Humanitarian Tower of Hope Award to Dr. Deborah Axelrod,
chief of the Comprehensive Breast Cancer Center at Saint Vincent’s
Medical Center in New York and associate professor of surgery at New
York Medical College.
The 25th
anniversary dinner took place at The Plaza in Manhattan, where the
emcee was Jamie Colby-Wallack, co-host of WebMD TV Weekend.
Dinner chairs were Bruce and Cindy Koplowitz, Dr. Rachel
Ostry and Dr. Ed Adler.
Axelrod and Rosie
O’Donnell co-authored Bosom Buddies: Lessons and Laughter
about Breast Health and Cancer (Warner Books). Axelrod also
founded the educational website www.breastdoc.com.
An ICRF cancer research
fellowship will be named for Dr. Axelrod.
“I
don’t deserve this honor,” she said, “but I don’t want a
recount.”
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