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This book, created by the Jewish Funders Network, grounds disability rights in Jewish values.

This is a 43-page tome on disability rights as they relate to Jewish tradition, religious texts, and values, with some practical recommendations.

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Did you know that February is Jewish Disability Awareness Acceptance, and Inclusion Month? In this month we celebrate Jewish figures who were and are disabled, so here a few of my favourite:

Yitzchak (Isaac): He became blind either from angel's tears falling in his eyes at Akedat Yitzchak, or from old age. Either way, his blindness made him disabled.

Yaakov (Jacob): He was left with a permanent leg injury after sparring with the angel.

Leah: She was described as being constantly crying and having swollen eyes. This can be interpreted as her having chronic depression, which is disabling.

Chushim: Dan's son, who was deaf. He was the one who ended up killing Esav after he tried to hold up Yaakov's funeral.

Moshe (Moses): He had a lisp since he was a child, and had so much difficulty communicating that he needed his brother Aharon to act as a translator.

Ehud ben Gera: A prophet and leader of the Jewish people, some commentaries interpret him as having a congenital limb difference in his right arm.

Shimshon (Samson): Rabbi Yochanan in the Talmud interpreted Shimshon as having been born with a limp in both his legs.

Shaul (Saul): He had severe depressive episodes for which he required David to comfort him with music.

Mephiboshet: Yonatan's son who was either bow-legged or had some kind of spinal injury. He was adopted by King David after Yonatan's death.

Rav Sheshet: An Amora in the Talmud who was blind. He was said to have memorized an immense wealth of knowledge that made his colleagues tremble in awe.

Franz Kafka: A writer and novelist, he suffered with depression and long-time chronic illness from contracting TB.

Judy Heumann: She is one of the founders the disability rights movement. She contracted polio as a baby and as a result became quadriplegic. She led the 26-day takeover of the San Francisco Health, Education and Welfare office in 1977 in protest for disability rights.

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was anyone gonna tell me there's an entire month based around disability inclusion in judaism or was i supposed to just accidentally find that out for myself the month after it happens

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My sister and I used to talk during synagogue services without making a sound. We achieved this magical feat by reading each other’s lips. We had an advantage: We were both born profoundly deaf and raised to lip-read and speak. Services were especially boring because we could only follow half of wha

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What changes will you push for as Jewish Disability Awareness Month comes to a close?

In what ways is your Jewish community working towards accessibility and inclusion? What do they still need to work on?

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We often choose not to recite the Mi Sheberach for people dealing with issues of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, substance abuse, ea

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What you need to know to make Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur an inclusive experience for everyone.

This is about more than just Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur; lots of very generalizable ideas. It's aimed at rabbis and shul leadership types.

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Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month (JDAIM) is a unified national initiative during the month of February to raise

This is aimed at people in the Philadelphia, PA area, but there are links to a bunch of universally useful things about Judaism and disability.

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