Original Articles

This post, written by Matan founder Meredith Polsky, originally appeared on The Jewish Week’s New Normal: Blogging Disability, September 4, 2013. For the first time in 115 years, Rosh [...]

Written by Meredith Polsky, this post originally appeared on The Jewish Week’s blog, The New Normal, July 11, 2013.  During the summer, I have the great privilege of working at one of the [...]

Written by Meredith Polsky, this post originally appeared on The Jewish Week blog The New Normal. Since I shared on this blog my family’s decision to withdraw our daughter Lucy from the local [...]

Written by Jonathan Mooney I’m on a plane today headed to Alberta, Canada to give a talk at an inclusion conference. Nothing new—been speaking at conferences like this for over ten years and, as [...]

Written by Matan co-founder Meredith Englander Polsky, this post originally appeared in The Jewish Week’s blog, The New Normal: Blogging Disability, May 2, 2013. Photo Credit: The 8 Women [...]

Written by Meredith Englander Polsky, co-founder of Matan and Director of Training and Advocacy, this post originally appeared on The Jewish Week’s blog, The New Normal (April 15, 2013). [...]

Written by Meredith Englander Polsky, this post originally appeared in The Jewish Week’s blog, “The New Normal“, March 28, 2013 Two of my children attend our local Jewish day [...]

Written by Susan Wiener and originally published in The Jewish Week, 2/26/13 “My name is Jacob Wiener. I am from Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, N.Y. I am almost 15 years old. I have [...]

Written by Meredith Englander Polsky Director of Training and Advocacy, Matan  In her article, “Jewish Day Schools’ Dirty Little Secret” (The Jewish Daily Forward, February 8, 2013), Jennifer [...]

Written by Jason Lieberman, and originally published on Kveller.com as part of our month-long series with them dedicated to Jewish Disability Awareness Month. Every morning I say two prayers. It [...]