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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 [...]

Five Federations Selected for Groundbreaking Disability Employment Initiative January 28, 2014   After years of working to promote inclusion of people with disabilities in the community and [...]

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 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 [...]

This article was originally published in Tablet Magazine, August, 2010 – By following the link to the actual article, you will also find many worthwhile comments. As I write this, kids are [...]

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 [...]

I’ve had the privilege of being involved with Matan since 2001.  Since that time, the organization has changed its tagline multiple times. It began as Matan: the Gift of Jewish learning for [...]