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Disability inclusion is Jewish inclusion — and we’re not done yet

JL;DR SUMMARY Meredith Englander Polsky, co-founder and new executive director of Matan, reflects on 25 years of progress and ongoing challenges in promoting disability inclusion within Jewish educational and communal settings. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CommunityEducationSocial JusticeIntersectionalityAccessibilityJewish ValuesBtzelem ElohimDisability InclusionMatanAdaptive Leadership

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Jerusalem, Israel
"We need every Jewish institution to ask: Who is missing from our table and why? What are we going to do about it?Inclusion is not a side project. It is the project."

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