Focusing on Jewish Kids With Disabilities
All our children deserve love, joy, and a Jewish education
By Marjorie Ingall for Tablet Magazine
So, the Jewish parenting site Kveller has made me cry twice in the last two weeks. And this has nothing to do with Mayim Bialik’s perspective on vaccines or baby formula!
Kveller has partnered with the Ruderman Family Foundation, which works for greater inclusion of people with disabilities in the Jewish community. Ruderman is offering financial support and guidance for Kveller’s coverage of disability-related topics for a year. Kveller will be doing two articles a week, one focused on the bar or bat mitzvah experience and one on general topics related to Jews and disability. The collaboration started at the beginning of February, which is not-so-coincidentally Jewish Disabilities Awareness Month.
The first piece that made me cry was called What I Learned While Planning a Bat Mitzvah for My Daughter With Disabilities. It’s by Cindy Kaplan, and every parent—indeed, every Jew—should read it. How can a nonverbal child with cognitive delays and physical challenges celebrate this event? How to mark this milestone when it’s not clear precisely what it will mean to the child in question? Kaplan’s answer is gorgeous. The day is about celebration of the experience as it is, not a Platonic ideal.
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