Wednesday, July 25, 2012 / news
Written by Ellen Applebaum, Hamodia By now, the Tisha B’Av programs of the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation are a well-known part of this meaningful day. Last year for the first time, the option to order DVDs with captioning – the spoken words written onscreen – was made available, and this year, too, CCHF will produce and provide captioned films for …Read more >
Thursday, June 28, 2012 / Views
New Population Study Reveals Communal Ignorance, Spotlights Need for Change by jayruderman By Guest Blogger Jason Lieberman, disability advocate and Vice President and Treasurer of Matan: For Every Child. For Every Community. The Gift of Jewish Learning, who was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy at 11 months. While earning a BA in American Studies, I learned the importance of community studies and censuses as …Read more >
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 / news
Are you a Torah observant woman living in or within travel distance of the New York City area who has a mental health service history? Would you like to participate in a peer-led culturally compatible self-help group for Torah observant women with mental health disabilities? If you are interested, please contact Leah Weinstein, Community Engagement Associate, at Yad HaChazakah-JDEC at …Read more >
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 / Views
(As published in the Mind, Body, and Soul Section of the Jewish Press, May 25, 2012) Why do frailty and differences in other people often scare us? They scare us because we see a reflection of what we fear in ourselves or because we just don’t know how to respond. Since we can’t live with this discomfort for too long, …Read more >
Friday, February 17, 2012 / news
From: Selfhelp Community Services, Inc. On Feb. 15th the State Department of Health announced that the implementation of “mandatory managed long term care” will be delayed at least three months, from April 1, 2012 to July 1, 2012. The reason is that this major change has not yet been approved by the federal Medicaid agency, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid …Read more >
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