{"id":242498,"date":"2010-01-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.rj.org,2010:\/rac\/\/2.2393"},"modified":"2010-01-28T11:57:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:57:57","slug":"torah-at-the-center-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/242498","title":{"rendered":"Torah at the Center: Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"

This season’s issue of Torah at the Center<\/a>, a publication of the Union for Reform Judaism, is dedicated to issues of outreach within our community, including and particularly outreach to Jews with disabilities. As February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month<\/a>, now is the time to broaden our understanding of accessibility and inclusion in our communities; to do otherwise would be to violate every principle of community to which we cling.<\/p>\n

So many believe that an Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant (ADA-compliant) ramp is enough to provide a welcoming environment for all Jews. Rabbi Lynne Landsberg, Senior Advisor on Disability Issues here at the RAC, notes in her article in the issue: <\/p>\n

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“The number of Americans with disabilities is ten times that of the American Jewish community. If so, then where are the Jews who need more than a ramp? If so, then where are the Jews who are deaf? If so, then where are the Jews who are blind? If so, then where are the Jews with intellectual disabilities (new terminology for mental retardation)? If so, then where are the Jews with cognitive or psychological disabilities? They are not in our synagogues because they perceive that they are not wanted there.” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So let this Jewish Disability Awareness Month be a call to action. Let us open our eyes to the different ways we can open our communities, strengthening them in the same moment by including all Jews, regardless of disability. <\/p>\n

For more information, programming ideas, and disability rights resources, visit our Jewish Disability Awareness Month page<\/a> or contact Legislative Assistant Samuel Lehman<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This season’s issue of Torah at the Center, a publication of the Union for Reform Judaism, is dedicated to issues of outreach within our community, including and particularly outreach to Jews with disabilities. As February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month, now is the time to broaden our understanding of accessibility and inclusion in our communities; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}