“My Hero Brother”: Special Needs Adults and their Siblings Scale New Heights
Michelle K. Wolf
January 30, 2017
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special needs
Conversations about special needs employment shifting from ‘if’ to ‘how’
Ryan Torok
March 25, 2016
Shalhevet High School office assistant Daniel Schwartz’s responsibilities are mostly clerical.
Special needs couple ask Knesset speaker for permission to wed there
Jewish Journal
February 18, 2016
A Knesset worker and his fiancee, both with special needs, have petitioned Speaker Yuli Edelstein for permission to be married there.
Conservative rabbis, leaders letter to Netanyahu urging him to ‘ensure the rights of every Israeli’
Jewish Journal
May 13, 2015
We are writing to you as the collective leadership of the Conservative/Masorti Movement, representing two million Jews around the world and hundreds of thousands in Israel.
A camp with a big heart
Jewish Journal
March 26, 2015
For the past seven summers, Hilary Kip’s twin boys have attended Camp Chesed, a Reseda-based program for kids with special needs now headed into its 20th year. There’s a very simple reason Kip sends them year after year
Summer camp for all
Jewish Journal
March 26, 2015
Like many children and teenagers, Michael Rosenbaum of Los Feliz sees going to summer camp as a highlight of his year.\n
Tyler Barbee shares his sports passion with special-needs kids
Jewish Journal
September 4, 2014
As a little boy growing up in Mill Valley, Calif., playing baseball meant the world to Tyler Barbee.
Limmud for special needs
Jewish Journal
January 8, 2014
Since the launch in 2011 of Limmud L’Am at Limmud Conference UK, adults with a variety of learning/developmental disabilities have become a welcome addition to the Limmud community around the world — as presenters, volunteers and participants.
Welcoming special-needs families at Vista Del Mar
Zan Romanoff
August 22, 2013
Six years ago, when Rabbi Jackie Redner was hired as a full-time rabbi at Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services center, she decided to visit the kids in the Nes Gadol program first. Nes Gadol is designed to prepare children with autism for their bar and bat mitzvahs — they learn about Jewish history and religious practice and write speeches about their relationship to Judaism and faith.
Study: Jewish summer camps increasingly attune to special needs kids
Jewish Journal
May 2, 2013
A study released by the Foundation for Jewish Camp showed overnight camps are growing increasingly aware of the needs of children with disabilities.
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