From Matan’s Executive Director

Written by Dori Frumin Kirshner, Matan’s Executive Director Do you trust your GPS? Have you ever relied on its navigational advice only to find yourself nowhere near your intended destination? [...]

Written by Dori Frumin Kirshner, Matan’s Executive Director Another invitation to a bar mitzvah arrived in our mailbox. I envisioned a typical service followed by the usual photo montage [...]

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 [...]

A package arrived today…10 copies of the 2012-2013 Slingshot Guide – the Zagat-like guide to the 50 most innovative non-profits in the Jewish community.  On page 31 is the most [...]

Written by Dori Frumin Kirshner, Executive Director, Matan Originally published in The New York Jewish Week, Friday, July 27, 2012 On Jan. 20, 2009 our 4-year-old daughter forced my husband and [...]

Written by Dori Frumin Kirshner, Executive Director, Matan I just returned from a FLAME concert. What is FLAME, you might ask? FLAME is a collection of talented souls who don’t let any [...]

Written by Matan Executive Director Dori Frumin Kirshner, this article was originally published in the New Jersey Jewish Standard. If you have not yet seen the film “The King’s Speech,” don’t [...]