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Jewish Disability Awareness Shabbat |
A Very Special Shabbat
February 5, 2010
Please join God’s Unfinished Business at services on Friday evening, February 5th, as we observe Jewish Disability Awareness Month. Interspersed into our regular service will be pertinent readings and a special presentation by pediatric neurologist Dr. Jerry Golden, who testified before Congress during discussions concerning the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act in 1990. As announced by Rabbi Lynne Landsberg, Senior Advisor on Disability Issues at the Washington, DC, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, and herself severely disabled by a tragic automobile accident, this coming February will be “the first annual Jewish Disability Awareness Month, recognized by all streams of Judaism (Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist) and most, if not all, national Jewish agencies. Local synagogues, organizational chapters and federations are observing Jewish Disability Awareness Month with special programming to educate their members about people with all kinds of disabilities -- physical, intellectual, psychological and more.” God’s Unfinished Business is proud to be facilitating Society Hill Synagogue’s participation in this unique and important Shabbat experience. Do come and share the evening with us!
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