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- Part 1: Jewish Theology Can Guide Our Thinking Says Scholar
| Ancient societies often demonstrated a distinct response to people with a disability: murder. In Greece and Rome, for example, infanticide was the widely accepted response to a child born with physical disabilities. Even Plato and Aristotle agreed th |
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- Part 2: Parents Speak
| When you are the parent of a child with disabilities, there’s never a time when you are able to sit back and think, “This will be okay.” Everything can be a challenge--including being Jewish.
In theory, the Jewish community sh |
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- Part 4: Lessons In How To Turn Visions Into Reality
| Colleen Horton began as an advocate for her daughter who has autism. She simply wanted to make sure her daughter got a quality education. The more Horton engaged her local school district, the more she realized that almost all kids with special needs |
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- Part 5: Film Asks: How Inclusive Is Our Prayer?
| Prayer is not simply speaking to The Master of the World. It’s also expecting a response.
In director Ilana Trachtman’s feature documentary “Praying With Lior”, we meet Lior Liebling, a 12-year-old Jewish boy whose developmenta |
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Part 6 A Houston Report Card
| To quote the Chasidic master Yehudi HaKadosh: “Good intentions alone, not accompanied by action, are without value. The main thing is the action, as this is what makes the intention so profound.” The needs of Jews with disabilities and their families |
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Houston Start-Up Aims To Put Special Needs People To Work
| There’s no life after high school. With an unemployment rate for people with disabilities between 60-65%, most people with disabilities over the age of 22 are sitting in their parents homes, left behind by the business world.
A new sta |
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