Striving for Inclusion

By Jewish Learning Venture Staff|2020-03-05T10:07:10-05:00March 5th, 2020|Empowering Institutions|

by Rabbi Eric Yanoff To kick off Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month this year, at Adath Israel, we hosted a Lunch n’ Learn on Shabbat, at which someone asked a challenging question: “Where have we fallen short? Where are we deficient?” It was an ...Read More

Create a Sensory Box For Your Classroom/Program/Sanctuary

By Jewish Learning Venture Staff|2019-08-14T09:25:00-04:00August 13th, 2019|Empowering Institutions|

by Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, Director, Whole Community Inclusion This past summer, we piloted a new tool to make our jkidphilly summer music series more inclusive–a sensory box. We know that for some children with noise sensitivity, attending any music concert–even an outdoor, acoustic one–could feel too ...Read More

The Inclusion Specialists Network

By Jewish Learning Venture Staff|2019-08-06T17:09:14-04:00August 6th, 2019|Empowering Institutions|

We are thrilled to introduce Whole Community Inclusion’s newest initiative to support disability inclusion in our congregational schools: The Inclusion Specialists Network. Made possible by a generous grant from the Janet and Alvin Schwartz Fund for Special Education, the Inclusion Specialists Network is for professionals ...Read More