Entries tagged with 'Disability Rights'
Equal Amusement For All
Take a look at this interesting piece from the Sunday Washington Post on an "amusement park with a unique mission: to create a play space for individuals with special needs." Morgan's Wonderland, named for founder Gordon Hartman's daughter, is in...
Fair Treatment, Community Choice
The following post is the text of a speech that was presented on Monday to Members of Congress by Alex Howard, Jenna Silver and Emily Hernandez. All three are members of Temple Ahavat Shalom in Northridge, California who attended the...
No Jew Left Behind
February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month, and all month, we'll be featuring blog posts about disability inclusion. Read our posts here and visit our Jewish Disability Awareness Month page.Rabbi Lynne Landsberg, the RAC's senior adviser on disability issues, wrote an...
Disabled in Haiti, Where Everyone is Now Vulnerable
February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month, and all month, we'll be featuring blog posts about disability inclusion. Read our posts here and visit our Jewish Disability Awareness Month page.Estimates of the financial damage caused by January's earthquake in Haiti have...
"Seclusion and Restraint:" For Prisons or Public Schools?
February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month, and all month, we'll be featuring blog posts about disability inclusion. Read our posts here and visit our Jewish Disability Awareness Month page.Last week, I wrote about the issue of high unemployment among people...
Disabilities & the Census: Be Counted!
February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month, and all month, we'll be featuring blog posts about disability inclusion. Read our posts here and visit our Jewish Disability Awareness Month page.The decennial census officially commenced on January 20thin Noorvik, Alaska -- a...
Disabilities & Education: Is Enough Being Done?
In the last few weeks, I've been working with my colleague Rabbi Lynne Landsberg, Senior Adviser for Disability Issues at the Religious Action Center, to draw attention to a very troubling statistic: more than 70% of people with disabilities are...
Movements Collaborate to Raise Disability Awareness
Shelly Christensen is the Chair of the Disability Task Force and Program Manager of the Jewish Community Inclusion Program for People with Disabilities, a program of the Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis. February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month, and...
Parashat Yitro & Jewish Disability Awareness Month
Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell is a Worship Specialist for the Union for Reform Judaism. February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month, and all month, we'll be featuring blog posts about disability inclusion. Read our posts here and visit our Jewish Disability...
My Name is Sharon
Sharon Palay is a member and Lay Leader of Bet Shalom Congregation, Minnetonka, MN. February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month, and all month, we'll be featuring blog posts about disability inclusion. Read our posts here and visit our Jewish Disability...
Thinking Beyond the Label
February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month, and all month, we'll be featuring blog posts about disability inclusion. Read our posts here and visit our Jewish Disability Awareness Month page. Just in time for Jewish Disability Awareness Month, a great article in...
Jewish Disability Awareness Month: True Challenges, True Opportunities
Shelly Christensen is the Chair of the Disability Task Force and Program Manager of the Jewish Community Inclusion Program for People with Disabilities, a program of the Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis<. February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month, and...
Torah at the Center: Outreach
This season's issue of Torah at the Center, a publication of the Union for Reform Judaism, is dedicated to issues of outreach within our community, including and particularly outreach to Jews with disabilities. As February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month,...
Jewish Disability Awareness Month is Coming!
Rabbi Lynne Landsberg is Chair of the Central Conference of American Rabbis' Ad Hoc Committee on Disability Awareness & Inclusion and Senior Advisor on Disability Issues at the RAC. This post is adapted from her article in the November/December...
"We Don't Say 'No,' We Say 'How'"
Living a Jewish life is about living a community life, about celebrating and praying and observing together. We are taught "Do not separate yourself from the community" (Pirke Avot 2:5) and we fulfill this teaching when we join together for...
Hate Crimes are Different
This post originally appeared in the Washington Post's On Faith section, where Rabbi Saperstein is a regular panelist. It is reprinted with permission.This week's On Faith question asks, "Congress is expected to expand federal hate crimes laws to add "sexual...
Disability Leaders Meet with Attorney General
Andrew Imparato is the President and CEO of the American Association of People with Disabilities. This post originally appeared at AAPD's blog, Justice for All. Last week, nine representatives from the disability community met with Attorney General Eric Holder...
A National Treasure
Donald Cohen-Cutler is a former Communications Manager at the Union for Reform Judaism. This post originally appeared at RJ.org. All views expressed are his own.In the days after we returned from our honeymoon the questions turned from "how was your...
Being Mindful
Traumatic Brain Injury is a rising crisis in our country. It is estimated that at least 5.3 million Americans suffer from TBI and that number is only increasing due to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Last year the URJ...
Strangers in a Familiar Land
As Jews, we are intimately familiar with feeling unwelcome and excluded. We have been strangers in Egypt, in Babylon, in Europe, and even in America, but it is this shared experience that compels us to open our doors to those...
MLK Day and Civil Rights at the RAC
Our tradition instills in us the need for tikkun olam, repair of the world, and the responsibility to help the poor and stranger in our midst. We are especially reminded of this mandate on January 19th, when we will celebrate...
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