Teaching Jewish Disability Awareness
Labels and Categories – How do they help us make sense of the world?
Inclusion Teen Training
Labels and Categories – How do they help us make sense of the world?
Guidelines and Questions to Ask
Labels and Categories – How do they help us make sense of the world?
Happiness is everything…right?
Charlie Brown makes is seem so easy. In “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown”, he sings, in the closing song, Happiness, “Happiness is morning and evening, day time and night time too. For happiness is anyone and anything at all, that’s loved by you.” Nice sentiment. Warm and fuzzy. Sort of like Snoopy. Not. Happiness…
Stand up for the Disabled
Entebbe: Leave No Man Behind July 4th marks 35 years since the Entebbe rescue. The writer, Entebbe hero, writes a special lesson to be learned from it. Maj. Gen. Almog is one of those the UK threatened to arrest as a ‘war criminal’, leading him to cancel plans to speak there. Thirty-five years ago today…
Protecting Akiva in a Pandemic
Protecting Akiva in a Pandemic When I wake up each morning, I feel a bit of dread steal over me. What day is today? I can’t remember. What should we do today? I don’t know. Should I take a quick digital hit of the news? I feel afraid to even look. Every morning (since…
Inclusive Thinking will make the world a better place
The best thing someone said to me recently? Inclusion is the antidote to division in the world. No, seriously. Think about it. The world is a nasty place, filled with hateful thoughts and hateful actions. The world is also a judgmental place with assumptions made about people by people, each and every day. The world…
What “Tard” Are You Anyway?
Are you a Libtard or a Libertardian? A Conservatard or a Neotard? A Gaytard, Fagtard or Lestard? Or maybe just a Tard, described in the Urban Dictionary as “one so retarded, they do not deserve the ‘re’.” Squirming as you read those words? Sure you are. You’re a nice person. You don’t say the word…
August Is the Hardest Month: Disability and Parental Loneliness
Today? I want what I can’t have. I want Akiva to sleep late. Really late. So late, that I have to march into his room, check that he’s alive, and wake him up because hey, it’s 1 PM, and I’m your mother. I want Akiva to brush his teeth, handle bathroom details, and get dressed.…
Having an Older Child with Disabilities
I’m now officially the parent of older children. My husband, Ira, and I, had no idea this would ever occur. Three boys; Natan, 24, studying Theater at Tel Aviv University; Gabriel, 21, finishing up 3 years of IDF service as an artillery guy, and Akiva, 17, a happy go-lucky teenager who also happens to have Down…