R.I. to help fight cancer with cookie fundraiser

For the first time ever, Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts will participate in the Pies for Prevention Thanksgiving Bake Sale, which benefits Sharsheret’s Ovarian Cancer Program.

This year, Sharsheret will donate 10% of the net proceeds from the baked goods sold to the Israel Lemonade Fund and Haverut, Israeli organizations serving families affected by cancer and by war-related trauma.

The bake sale program began in 2009 in Teaneck, New Jersey, and New York City. Now, there are locations across the United States, Canada and Israel, more than 35 sites in all.

In Providence, Judie Tenenbaum heads the baking and distribution of the cookies. A team of bakers will bake chocolate chip cookies as part of the “Everyone Needs Support” project. Each half-dozen cookies come in a custom, handmade tote.

The ordering deadline is Nov. 10. The cookies will be baked and packaged on Nov. 14 and 15. Distribution is Nov. 19. Cost is $18. Baking and distribution will take place at Temple Emanu-El, 99 Taft Ave., Providence. The cookies are kosher.

To order cookies and for more information, go to tinyurl.com/4yjx442p.

Sharsheret, Hebrew for chain, is a national cancer organization with five offices in the U.S. It serves 150,000 women, families, health-care professionals, community leaders and students in all 50 states. While its focus is on young women and Jewish families, more than 25% of those served are not Jewish. All Sharsheret programs serve women and men.

Jewish Rhode Island Staff