These days in Israel, our world has gotten smaller again.

Not emotionally smaller — if anything, the opposite. But physically smaller. Families are staying closer to home, closer to shelters, closer to the people they love most. Plans are tentative. Events are postponed. We listen closely for alerts and check the news much more often than we should.

For many organizations, including ours at Jeremy’s Circle, it also means pausing in-person gatherings that are a central part of what we do.

But cancer doesn’t pause for wars.

The children and teens we support already live with a level of uncertainty that most adults struggle to comprehend. Their families are coping with cancer or the loss of a parent to cancer. Medical appointments still happen. Treatments continue. The emotional........

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