Matir Asurim

Since I have been following the Down syndrome community, I have noticed two linguistic crusades running through it.  One is about "Peop...

Today is March 21, designated World Down Syndrome Day.  Why?  Down Syndrome is the name of trisomy (3 copies) of chromosome #21.  So if the ...

Is there "one special child" waiting there for you? No.  There are many thousands of individual children, each of them totally r...

Last week was a "double Parsha" -- both Vayak'hel and Pekudei are covered, although our congregation follows the triennial ...

Two for one for this parsha!   Ki Tissa was also the occasion of the Bat Mitzvah of a sweet girl with Cerebral Palsy who attends our synagog...

A bit behind again, I'm afraid... Ki Tissa is the chapter of the Golden Calf.  The Israelites have just witnessed all the miracles in...

Thank you to my online friend Hevel for this link today. Only in Israel are there programs in place to specifically enable people with...