While in rabbinical school, I spent a year as the student rabbi at Temple Beth Solomon of the Deaf in Arleta, CA. It was a deliberate choice on the part of the rabbi in charge of student [...]
Within any synagogue community it is common to find many sub-communities. Throughout the year you are likely to find the entire community gathered together for any number of reasons – [...]
When I was a rabbinical student living in New York City, I was once a Shabbat guest at the house of a lovely Orthodox family living on the Upper East Side. Yet as I sat down to dinner, I couldn’t [...]
This summer, my family took an eight-hour tour of Yellowstone National Park. We saw flora and fauna, smelled sulfur coming from geysers, got rained on, took many photos and heard more [...]
We are about to celebrate Pesach. In many of our homes, we have been cooking and cleaning and preparing to read the story of the Exodus from Egypt. We will share stories and memories of seders [...]
Over the past few years, I have had the opportunity to mentor educational directors from various parts of the country through my work with MATAN. The goal of these mentorships, as a component of [...]
Written by Meredith Polsky, Matan co-founder It has been a challenging week in the world of Jewish Special Education, as news of a blind camper asked to leave Camp Ramah in Canada spread at [...]
Matan’s first OPEN SESAME! program features the episode “Shabbat Shalom, Grover!” Everything you need for this screening can be found here! If you would like to conduct your [...]
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