In The News – Yodeah Know

Federation Partner Agencies Shine During Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Sharsharet and Yodeah — two nonprofits whose work is centered around breast cancer screenings, support, education and awareness of the heightened risk for hereditary genetic mutations faced by Jewish women and men — are making sure Breast Cancer Awareness month does not go unnoticed.

Haleigh Youtie Talks Her Mom's Legacy And Breast Cancer Awareness

For Haleigh Youtie, her life halted 6-months ago when she lost her mother, Eileen after an 8-year battle with breast cancer. Over her 8 year-long fight Eileen made it her mission to get all Ashkenazi Jews tested for a Breast Cancer Gene mutation, as she had the BRCA1 gene mutation herself. According to statistics, 1 in 40 Ashkenazi Jews carries a mutation of a BRCA gene, most without knowing.

Sharsheret and Yodeah Educate Women About Breast Cancer

In honor of Women’s History Month, our Women's Philanthropy division wants you to know about Federation's efforts to improve the lives of Jewish Women everywhere. Our Women’s Impact Initiative Grants are supporting two organizations that help Jewish women understand their risk of breast cancer: Sharsheret and Yodeah, which means "to know" in Hebrew.

Eileen Winkler Youtie

Yodeah announces the creation of the Chazak Award to recognize amazing people who have inspired our mission and worked with Yodeah to save generations of Jewish families through education and testing for Jewish hereditary cancers. The Hebrew word Chazak means strength and there is no better word to describe our recipient. Her strength of spirit, conviction and faith is a source of blessing to all who know her.

Max Weinberg and Ali Rogin: Men and Women with BRCA Mutations

Yodeah presents a conversation with Max Weinberg — drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band — and his daughter, Ali Rogin, as they share their story of what it means to be a BRCA-positive man.

Webinar informs Jewish community about hereditary cancers

A webinar provided Jewish men and women with the opportunity to know more about hereditary cancers and what they mean to them.

Personalizing care with genetics: Dr. Etkin-Kramer and Dana’s Story

Personalizing care with genetics: Dr. Etkin-Kramer and Dana’s

The Yodeah Genetics Founder: A Conversation with Elizabeth Etkin-Kramer

Dr. Elizabeth Etkin-Kramer has turned her passion for early screening and genetic testing in to a fabulous, community based nonprofit called Yodeah. Hear her story today!

Educating Patients, and Physicians, On the Importance of Genetic Testing In Breast Cancer

Genetic and genomic testing has changed the landscape of cancer care, especially for patients with breast cancer and those with metastatic breast cancer.

Free, Cheap, and Easy Ways to Get Tested for the BRCA Mutation

Did you know that if you are even part Ashkenazi, you have a 1 in 40 chance of carrying a cancer-causing BRCA mutation? Yeah, neither did I. What’s more, this startling statistic is true even if there’s no history of cancer in your family.

Take the Test: Doctors urge some South Floridians to test for genetic mutation that carries higher risk of cancer

A dangerous genetic mutation causing an alarmingly high rate of breast and ovarian cancers, and doctors say one South Florida population has a higher risk, but there is a way to detect it. 7’s Kevin Ozebek tell us that’s why both women and men are being urged to take the test.

All Ashkenazi Women Should Be Tested for BRCA

News of Elizabeth Wurtzel’s death this week at age 52 has been incredibly emotional for me.

Elizabeth Wurtzel’s tragic death should be a wakeup call for Ashkenazi Jewish women

If ever there were a Gen X Jewish woman writer who made meaning out of the intimate details and dark forces that wreaked havoc on her life, it was Elizabeth Wurtzel.

GENETIC CANCER RISK: 80% OF PEOPLE WITH BRCA1 OR BRCA2 MUTATIONS UNAWARE

Most people who carry genes that raise their risk of developing certain forms of cancer are unaware of it, according to research.

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Genetic testing may help those at high risk take steps to prevent deadly cancers.

Prevention - GENEration: Professor Ephrat Levy-Lahad

The "Prevention GENEration" program was initiated in order to raise awareness of the importance of genetic testing in women with breast cancer and ovarian cancer...

The Breast Cancer Gene and Me

I DID not know I have the BRCA mutation. I did not know I would likely get breast cancer when I was still young, when the disease is a wild animal...

Study of Jewish Women Shows Link to Cancer Without Family History

Women of Ashkenazi Jewish descent who tested positive for cancer-causing genetic mutations during random screenings have high rates of breast and ovarian cancer...