[3] In 1964, Cashman secured a visa to visit Egypt with the hopes of interviewing then-president Gamal Abdel Nasser.
[3] In 1970, Cashman was invited to join the press corps to cover the visit of Pope Paul VI to Australia, as "every ethnic group was allowed to have one representative," and she was the only Yiddish-speaking journalist available.
She worked out of the Government Press Office, being able to use their phone lines for free when calling media outlets outside the country.
[1][7] In 1962, Cashman wrote a letter to James Meredith, an American civil rights activist, expressing her support for his work.
[8] Shortly before the first election of Yitzhak Rabin, Cashman met Dan Landau, a member of the Labor Party and later a photojournalist.