Around the web...
Check out this page each week to discover the disability stories that we’re reading…and please comment or email us with articles, essays and videos that you’d like us to share at jewishdisabilityinclusionnews@gmail.com.
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman (a member of our advisory board) offers a new paradigm for understanding the religious import of including all within our sacred spaces.
Search engine for inclusive apparel shoppers to launch soon
Palta’s platform will enable brands to serve a new market of 1.6 billion people with disabilities.
Meet Gavi Engel-Yan, the 12-year-old who dedicated her bat mitzvah to Jewish accessibility
The Forward profiles Engel-Yan’s bat mitzvah as a joyous occasion — and a call for change
Disabled artists like Alice Sheppard, Natalie de Segonzac, and Carolyn Lazard prove that access is its own art form, defying a deficit mentality and centering inclusion from the start in exhilarating new art forms.
How to Make Your Home Accessible
New York Times feature that showcases the home of Jewish disability activist Emily Ladau and includes great resources.
Rabbanit Dr. Liz Shayne dedicates this powerful essay to the students of Maharat and YCT.
Listen to the joys and frustrations of supporting kids who learn and think differently.
Disability Pride Month and the Disability Rights Movement
PBS shares an excellent selection of documentaries that look at the history of the disability rights movement as well as the activists within the movement.
These wonderful book selections are not only for Jewish Disability Acceptance, Awareness & Inclusion month but are educational and informative to read through the year.
#DisabilityPrideMonth Book List
Broad Street Review has curated a variety of books from a variety of writers living with disabilities, including Jewish activists like Emily Ladau and the late Judy Heumann.