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Ten Palestinian mothers completed the 10-session computer training program conducted in Israel to assist the women in entering the workforce and helping their children at school. To see a video from the wonderful instructor, Manar Taha, click here.

Dr. Rodayna Badir KaMal discusses on Israeli television the computer skills training program sponsored by Marcia’s Light Foundation to benefit Palestinian mothers.See https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aU7Hj9bWUJFEdzqik-9M6Qki2BzD-EH2/view?usp=sharing

Starting as a pilot project, Marcia’s Light is sponsoring computer training for Palestinian mothers so they can develop skills to enter the Israeli workforce and to help their children with core functions to participate in digital learning and other educational activity. Currently, many Palestinian mothers and their families do not have the needed basic computer…

With deep gratitude for the immense selfless care they provide to cancer and covid patients, Marcia’s Light provided lunch to the Weill Cornell / NY Presbyterian Cancer Team in Manhattan. This team, which includes the remarkable Dr. Alyson Ocean and her assistant Diane Alvarado, cared for Marcia Horowitz during her pancreatic cancer and so many other…

A dear friend and humanitarian colleague, Rodayna Badir, Ph.D., helped Marcia’s Light Foundation safely coordinate food distribution to more than 200 Palestinian families in need in Haifa, Israel. She arranged for collaborative non-profits and lots of volunteers, many young adults, to bring food to Muslim families hurt by the corona virus pandemic.  There were no…

On Friday, April 24th, Marcia’s Light again provided lunch for the remarkable cancer care staff at NY Presbyterian/Lawrence Hospital plus the staff on 4 North, the wing devoted to cancer patients but now serving those afflicted by Covid-19. Marcia spent her final days in Room 413, on 4 North, and could not have received more…

Yesterday, El Centro Hispano, a non-profit organization which has been assisting the Hispanic community for more than 46 years, arranged for the distribution of food to more than 360 families in need at the Post Road Elementary School in White Plains, NY. Logistics were compliant with corona-virus safety standards and the food offerings were conducted in…

Today, Marcia’s Light Foundation carried on Marcia’s legacy by providing lunch for the Cancer Care Staff at Lawrence Hospital and supporting Park Place Bagels in Bronxville, NY, which her family frequented during Marcia’s last weeks. Words cannot express the gratitude everyone should have for the incredible doctors, nurses and other staff — like those at…

On February 10, 2020, Marcia Horowitz, a public relations and crisis communications pioneer — and loving wife, mother, grandmother, relative, friend, and colleague — passed on peacefully in an atmosphere of serenity surrounded by love.  Although she fought hard and handled her illness with grace and dignity, the ravages of pancreatic cancer took their toll. Marcia led…

As part of its mission to foster cross-cultural friendships, on December 20, 2019 Marcia’s Light Foundation was thrilled to provide luncheon and engender heartfelt discussion after Friday Jummah services at UWMS’s new community center. Marcia’s Light arranged for Hallel Chicken Biryaini and Kosher Pastrami sandwiches for more 170 worshipers, and is happy to report that…