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We do not solicit financial contributions.  We do, of course,  accept them, as  they do defray our large expenses.  What we really need is people:  volunteers to deliver the challah at several area hospitals.  If you wish to honor someone in your family who fought cancer, please email us and we will contact you.

In 1996, Dr. Michael Nissenblatt visited a woman hospitalized with multiple myeloma.  She was in pain and confined to bed.  She was fearful that the pain would increase and that she would soon die. Life had little meaning for her.

 As Mike tells it, "recognizing she was a practicing Jew, and recalling I had an extra challah in the car, I brought it to her.  She realized that the small gift was a measure of hope, and she really did have a reason to fight.  Her self- worth was restored.  That woman eventually went home, and lived for several more productive years."

That is what the CHALLAH FOUNDATION is all about.  Some call the challah 'hope', others see it as 'faith'; it really doesn't matter what words are used.  What matters is that those who are well, as well as those who are afflicted, see the challah as an icon of life.

The Challah Foundation serves cancer patients and survivors.  The requirements are very simple. Our recipients are current or past patients at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Jersey.  Their religion, race and gender do not matter to us.

With the wonders of modern medicine, and faith in our creator, and our fellow man, this disease can be fought with a salvo of efforts that frequently succeed.