Disability Awareness & Advocacy

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Too many groups and individuals have historically been marginalized in Jewish spaces, including people with disabilities. We know that 1 in 4 people have a disability and while our Jewish community has made great strides in disability awareness, acceptance and inclusion, there is much work to do around access, reducing stigma and full belonging. We hold that communities must do more than welcome; they must be open to true transformation.

Latest Rituals

Amy Ariel offers a teaching about belonging and a collaboratively-created prayer.
This beautiful floral mikveh ceremony is ideal for anyone who is not able to immerse in water.
“those who dance as they hold as they dance through all life; those who reach up from a wheelchair; out from a walker; or wobbling, out from a cane.”
A ritual of grief, rage, and sacred transformation for when a disability progresses
This releasing hametz ritual is for disabled Jews, chronically ill Jews, Unhoused Jews and anyone whose body or circumstances make traditional Pesakh preparation.inaccessible.
This ritual creates an accessible mikveh experience for home-bound people.
“Then how Aaron cradles the blossom for you…”
A reinterpretation of the mikvah ritual to perform when full immersion is not possible.
“whether we sit, rise, bow, or sway, the Divine perceives the murmurs of our hearts”
Joanie Calem shares music about disability inclusion.

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