VALERIE WEISLER Q: What positive changes have you seen in the Jewish community vis-a-vis inclusion of people with disabilities during your lifetime? A: I’ve seen the ways to [...]
Written by Rabbi Dan Grossman Surely every child is a unique gift. The story of our ancestors begins the year with a story of a child, a gift, unique and beloved. The child of Abraham and Sara, [...]
Written by Meredith Polsky, Matan co-founder It has been a challenging week in the world of Jewish Special Education, as news of a blind camper asked to leave Camp Ramah in Canada spread at [...]
On November 5th, 2011, students from Matan’s Shaare Torah program in Gaithersburg, Maryland came together with staff from Camp Ramah in New England’s Tikvah program. The Tikvah [...]
“Okay, here I go!” our son Mickey said. He stood at the bimah, beaming a mega-watt smile at the fifty gathered friends and relatives who had come to celebrate this bar mitzvah day with him. He [...]
When Jennifer Levine was given the opportunity to participate in a three-year Leadership Institute for supplementary school education directors, she felt both honored and hesitant. A joint [...]
I’ve had the privilege of being involved with Matan since 2001. Since that time, the organization has changed its tagline multiple times. It began as Matan: the Gift of Jewish learning for [...]
Rockmitzvah was really an accident… an accident waiting to happen. One late evening four years ago, Marc Jacoby was scouring the Craigslist Community pages and fell upon a family in search of a [...]
What a week in New Orleans! At the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, otherwise known as the GA, I had the opportunity to attend the first ever Jewish Futures [...]
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