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During the month of February (Jewish Disability Awareness Month) Matan shares a weekly d’var torah linking inclusion to the upcoming Torah portion. We say often that JDAM may only be one month, [...]

At the end of May, I attended the National Ramah Spring Staff Training Institute at Camp Ramah in New England as a representative of Ramah Day Camp in Nyack. I participated in a specialized [...]

This post originally ran on the blog of the Union for Reform Judaism. We are thrilled that such a partnership has formed between two Movement’s camps. We know that inclusion is deepened [...]

This article originally ran in the NY Jewish Week’s New Normal Blog. If you are anything like me, you eagerly await the summer months to finally make a sizable dent in that pile of books [...]

Summer is here—and even for our kids who are attending camps or extended school year programs, this is a season of less structure and can be a time when parents struggle to keep up children’s [...]

I am such a proud mother. My kids are simply fantastic and I love them to the moon and back. They continually surprise and amaze me; every day I learn something new from them. I’m pleased to [...]

The original version of this article was posted in GLEANINGS: Dialogue on Jewish Education from The Davidson School of the Jewish Theological Seminary. We Are the First Responders We educators [...]