This post, written by Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, originally ran on The New Normal Blog of the NY Jewish Week. As someone with a disability myself, and who also knows what it means to parent a child [...]

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, [...]

Written by Lisa Friedman, Matan’s Manager of Social Media and Alumni Networks. It’s not hard to teach our children to be accepting of disabilities. Children are naturally eager and excited to [...]

The beach —- virtually any beach — has always been a quasi-spiritual experience for me. The open skies, crashing waves, warm air and soft sand beneath my feet trigger in me a sense of [...]

The songs have changed. The dance moves are different. I guess you could say an awful lot has changed in these last ten years of Camp Yofi at Ramah Darom. It’s hard to remember what it was like [...]