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On Disability, Humanity and Dignity

Posted on July 3, 2013July 3, 2013 by Lauren Tuchman

On June 21, 2013, NBC aired a story entitled: “Activists Say Goodwill Exploits Workers with Penny Wages”, about the practice in some, but not all Goodwill stores of paying workers with disabilitie... Read More

Parashat Emor: Embodied Leadership and Its Discontents

Posted on April 30, 2013April 30, 2013 by Lauren Tuchman

In Parashat Emor (Leviticus 21-24), read this past week in synagogues around the world, we are introduced to the relatives for whom Kohanim (priests) are permitted to mourn, as well as a list of vario... Read More

Towards Acceptance, Holiness and Removing Stumbling Blocks

Posted on April 15, 2013April 15, 2013 by Lauren Tuchman

This week, we are once again reading Parashat Kedoshim (Leviticus 19:1-20:27). Biblical scholars commonly refer to these two chapters of Leviticus as the holiness code due to the numerous interpersona... Read More

From Inclusion to Integration

Posted on February 20, 2013February 19, 2013 by Lauren Tuchman

This month, the Jewish community is marking Jewish Disability Awareness Month, as it has since February 2008. Throughout February, congregations and communal organizations of all stripes will be holdi... Read More

Making Room for People With Disabilities

Posted on July 1, 2012July 1, 2012 by Patrick Brown

Here in Illinois, Governor Quinn has been pushing hard to close state institutions for people with developmental disabilities, along with some prisons and state mental hospitals. There are a handful o... Read More

Holiness and Removing the Stumbling Block — Parashat Kedoshim

Posted on May 3, 2012May 2, 2012 by Lauren Tuchman

Parashat Kedoshim (Leviticus 19:1-20:27) is read this week as part of the annual Torah reading cycle in the synagogue. As is the case most years, it is read in conjunction with the parsha or Torah por... Read More

Jewish Disability Awareness Month

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Lauren Tuchman

This February marks the fourth annual Jewish Disability Awareness Month, a time when special attention and emphasis is brought to the needs and experiences of people with disabilities in our communiti... Read More

The Inclusion Imparative or, How I Came to Love Text

Posted on November 16, 2011November 16, 2011 by Lauren Tuchman

Inclusion of individuals with disabilities into the very fabric of our religious communities and congregations has been a passion of mine for many years. This stems in large part from the fact that I ... Read More

Disability, Christian Theology, and the Proper Place of “Limit-ness”

Posted on November 14, 2011November 13, 2011 by Sarah J. Blake LaRose

Deborah Creamer proposes a theology of disability based on the concept that all people are "limited." When is this concept of "limit-ness" harmful to people with disabilities?... Read More

Learning from Harry Potter

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio

Today Evanna Lynch told the world that J.K. Rowling helped her recover from anorexia. The Toronto Sun reports that she composed a letter to Rowling to thank her for the books, which gave her hope, and... Read More

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