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Written by Benay Josselson, February 13, 2013, this post originally appeared on Kveller.com as part of a joint series with Kveller & Matan during February’s Jewish Disability Awareness Month. [...]

Top 5 Tips For Religious School Educators February is recognized as Jewish Disabilities Awareness Month, and therefore time for us to remember that our students with disabilities need tools and [...]

Written by Neal Katz I can not speak.  For whatever reason, G-d has intended for me to be mute.  Many people might believe that I can not think, but despite their thinking, I can.  What’s [...]

Written by Rabbi David Englander, B’nai Torah Congregation, Boca Raton, Florida. In recognition of Jewish Disabilities Awareness Month, Rabbi Englander is the second contributor to our [...]

Written by Meredith Polsky, Matan’s Director of Training and Advocacy This post originally appeared on Kveller.com, February 6, 2013 When your child has special learning needs–or any kind [...]

Originally published in the New York Jewish Week Written by Julie Wiener, January 15, 2013 Ilana Ruskay-Kidd was tired of kvetching. As director of the JCC in Manhattan’s nursery school, which [...]

Written by Ari Neeman Originally published in The Jewish Week, December 18, 2012 Every American reels with shock and horror in the aftermath of school shootings like the one this past Friday in [...]

Written by Tara Parker-Pope, 12/24/12, The New York Times Jeffrey Wright is well known around his high school in Louisville, Ky., for his antics as a physics teacher, which include exploding [...]

Last March, Rabbi Artson and his son, Jacob Artson, kicked off our inaugural Matan Institute for Education Directors with a remarkable keynote address. For a glimpse of why Rabbi Artson was the [...]

This post was originally written for Darim Online, and posted to their blog October 4, 2012. Guest post by Meredith Englander Polsky, Director of Training and Advocacy at Matan, a participant in [...]