By JanetheWriter
This morning, a friend emailed me to relate the less than menschleichkeit goings-on she'd witnessed during her bus ride to work.  The key players were a blind man, his companion and a woman who, among other bus etiquette transgressions, wouldn't switch seats when the blind man and his companion boarded so that the two could sit together.  (Talk about putting a stumbling block before the blind...)  At the end of her note to me, my friend said, "Not a lot of Jewish values going on in the city this morning." 

Earlier in the day, I'd read in the New York Times that the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the ADA Amendments Act (H.R. 3195) yesterday by a 402-17 vote.

According to the article, action is expected shortly on the Senate version of the bill, the ADA Restoration Act, (S.1881), although there's no guarantee that once it's through both houses of Congress, the president will sign it into law.

By coincidence, an article on a related topic from last week's Washington Post (a city with no lack of less than menschleichkeit goings-on) crossed my desk yesterday.  It noted the plans of a congressman to introduce legislation that would remove the stumbling block by ensuring a greater measure of accessibility in digital devices for people with disabilities. 

Although that bill, (H.R. 6320), has just entered the often-drawn-out and not-always-successful-at-becoming-a-law legislative process, the same is not true for the ADA Restoration Act.  With that in mind, I hope that you'll take a minute to visit the RAC's website to track the progress of this latter piece of legislation and contact your senators--you can do so right from the website--to urge their support of this key bill.  Our tradition demands nothing less.

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