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The original version of this article was posted in GLEANINGS: Dialogue on Jewish Education from The Davidson School of the Jewish Theological Seminary. We Are the First Responders We educators [...]

We’ve been doing a lot of thinking over the past couple of months about what the best educational setting is for R. Much like our questions about camps, we’ve wondered if we are doing the right [...]

The following article originally ran on The New Normal, a blog of the NY Jewish Week. We are proud to share this piece here as the author has also been a mentor in our Matan Institutes. The [...]

Sitting in a café, waiting for my next meeting, slowly sipping coffee, playing on my phone, while actively trying not to listen to the two women sitting next to me. That quickly proved [...]

In recognition of Jewish Disabilities Awareness Month, Rabbi Rebecca Schoor is the third contributor to our weekly D’var Torah (word of Torah) where guest bloggers will link the week’s Torah [...]

This post, written by Leah Hager Cohen, originally ran on April 25, 2014 on Cognoscenti. Every school day for five years, I drove to and from the low brick building on a shady residential street [...]

“Excuse me, where’s the parenting section?” “What exactly are you looking for?” “Nothing specific,” I lied. “Just browsing.” The truth was that I had just come from the doctor, where I had been [...]

This post originally ran on Kveller. My son’s tooth sits on the counter and I catch myself staring at it. I haven’t put it away with the other teeth or lost it like a few others before. I keep [...]

As educators, we focus a lot on our students with special needs and our teachers. But there’s another piece that we need to focus on, too: the “parent piece.” I’d like to take off my educator’s [...]

I am always asked why I fight so hard for inclusion. Why do I care so much? The short answer? I believe that God wants every person to be in this world. The Torah teaches us that people with [...]