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The following post originally ran on Zeh Lezeh, the blog of The Ruderman Family Foundation. By: Rabbi Charles S. Sherman For a lot of us, August is a month of transition — still trying to squeeze [...]

The following post by Shelley Cohen originally ran on Zeh Lezeh, the blog of the Ruderman Family Foundation. “Hi.” What a significant little word. I have been saying hi to this young woman for [...]

Another version of this post originally ran on Jewish Special Needs Education: Removing the Stumbling Block. Do you know Jonathan Mooney? You need to. He’s awesome. He has been the opening [...]

This poignant follow-up piece by Matan’s founder, Meredith Polsky, on her decision to move her daughter Lucy from their community’s Jewish day school to the local public school is [...]

This article originally ran in The Jewish Journal. We were so fortunate to have Jacob offer the keynote at our first Matan Institute for Education Directors and we are so proud of his [...]

As part of Matan and Kveller’s month-long series dedicated to Jewish Disability Awareness Month, Benay shares her success at mainstreaming her son on the autism spectrum into a Jewish day [...]

Written by Kveller, originally published on Kveller.com, February 6, 2014 February is officially Jewish Disability Awareness Month (JDAM), and we’re happy to partner again with Matan to run a [...]

Written by Dori Frumin Kirshner, this post was originally published on Zeh Lezeh, the blog of the Ruderman Family Foundation. I read recently about a young man with Asperger’s employed at a [...]

Written by Lisa Friedman February 1, 2014 will mark the beginning of the sixth annual Jewish Disability Awareness Month (#JDAM14). JDAM is designed to be a unified initiative to raise disability [...]

Written by Meredith Polsky, this post originally appeared in The Washington Jewish Week, December 18, 2013.   In last week’s article, “Day schools seek to accommodate special-needs students” [...]