[The following piece appeared on the Ruderman Family Foundation blog on September 16, 2014.] “Check this Out!” appeared in the subject line on an email to me by Rabbi Barry …Read more >
By Sharon Shapiro-Lacks, Executive Director Yad HaChazakah – JDEC (Published in the “Building Blocks” supplement of The Jewish Press, June 28, 2013.) As a woman who has lived with Cerebral …Read more >
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The Seventh Annual ReelAbilities Film Festival comes to New York in March! On Sunday, March 15, from 2PM to 5PM, you can enjoy two REELABILITIES films about people with disabilities hosted by Brooklyn disability leaders. Yad HaChazakah-The Jewish Disability Empowerment Center along with the Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled will screen two films at the Actors Fund in …Read more >
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