New York – In an emotional, tear inducing moment, thousands of attendees at the RCCS Boro Park Dinner Tuesday night recited Tehillim for Reuvain ben Tova Chaya, a five-year-old boy from the mid-West who was flown in especially for this purpose. Thousands of b’rachos for a refuah shleimoh flowed in earnest as the boy’s father held his little son, in the presence of scores of gedolei Torah.
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The young lad is just one of several hundred cancer-stricken recipients of insurance subsidies, sponsored by the Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society (RCCS). What stands out most with this patient is that, in the past two years, he has undergone so many treatments, multiple surgeries, as well as a bone marrow transplant in the hope of saving his young life. His father estimates that, as a result of these RCCS subsidies, insurance payments to medical providers in behalf of his son have reached the ten million dollar mark!
Harav Matisyahu Salomon, mashgiach ruchani of Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, delivered an impassioned speech regarding the great mitzvah of helping cancer patients obtain the best medical treatment possible. The Mashgiach was preceded by Reb Hershel Kohn, founder and president of RCCS, who pleaded for partners in this endeavor. In a tear-choked voice, Reb Hershel bemoaned the possibility that for the first time in over ten years, RCCS may have to refuse patients due to lack of funds.
The attendees also heard from the Novominsker Rebbe, nassi hakovod of RCCS, from Rabbi Meilich Firer of Jerusalem, world-renowned medical expert, as well as from several other guest speakers, including a former cancer patient who thanked the assemblage for assisting in his recovery through their support of RCCS.
The chairman of the evening, Rabbi Naftali Weiss, pointed out that today, aside from providing insurance premium subsidies, RCCS has developed into a multi-pronged resource for cancer patients in our community, most notably through its patient advocacy department which represents patients who have been unfairly denied medical benefits by some of the insurance giants.
May all of the tefilos be answered, speedily in our days.
Mi Keamcho Yisroel
Thank You RCCS Baeutiful story I hope the boy has a Refuah Shleima. Why can’t people talk about these beautiful stories instead of all the Lashon Hora everyone loves to talk about???
WOW!
What a wonderful org. with an amazing founder rabbi Kohn!!!
May hashem grant you alot of koach to continue with your great holy work! what a zchis
An organization we can all be proud of.
Thank you for featuring this story. Reuven is my grandson and he need all the help he can get. His cancer has returned after several treatments including two very difficult chemotherapies and one clinical trial. Please continue davening for him.
Amazing organization / amazing people.
Wow!Mi Keamcho Yisroel!
can anybody post a clip of the event?
Big thank you reserved for Reb Hershel Kohn, for his countless efforts through out all these years, never got tired, did it for one reason to help people. may hashem give him koach and strength to continue this good deed. Bizchis Horabim He should be zocha to have all his tfilas come thru for him and his family. May hashem help all of us we should never have any need for this organization, Omen.
I am proud to be a Jew.
May Hashem send a refuah sheleima for all the yiddishe kinderlack right now.
I personaly know several people who work for this organation I have never met people more devoted to what they are doing in my life may they continue helping our cholim
Let’s not forget “ESTY KOHN”, daughter of founder of Reb Hershel Kohn, who is following in the footsteps of her father and is working tiredly for this organization the past few years “not 24 hours a day but 48 hours a day” and elevated this organization into one of the most successful organization in today’s world.
May hashem bless you with a lot of koach to continue with your great holy work! What a zchis!.
May hashem help all of us we should never have any need for this organization, Omen.