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New England Yachad awarded $50,000 Ruderman Family Foundation Grant to Expand Inclusive Programming Outside Greater Boston Area

December 9, 2013 By Batya Rosner It’s Yachad’s mission to improve the life of those living with a disability in the Jewish community and to create opportunities for everyone to participate in Jewish life, according to their ability. But not everyone who would benefit from Yachad’s mission of inclusion lives right in the heart of […]

YachadGifts.com Specialty Baskets Now in Business: Developing Vocational Skills for Individuals with Disabilities

YachadGifts.com Specialty Baskets Now In Business: Developing VOCATIONAL Skills for Individuals with Disabilities By Batya Rosner Yachad members Sam Miller and Rosa Barr create specialty gift baskets for YachadGifts.com with the guidance of Project Manager Sara Kramer (standing). Rosa Barr of Brooklyn arrived for her regular morning shift at YachadGifts.com and immediately got to […]

Thinking Beyond a Ramp: No-to-Low Cost Ideas to be Inclusive as a Synagogue

By Batya Rosner Is your synagogue sensitive to persons with disabilities? If someone with a physical, communication, hearing, vision, behavioral, or developmental disability moves into your community and is looking to belong to a shul, how would they perceive your synagogue? As welcoming, or as another closed door? The most common obstacle for persons with […]

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YachadGifts.com Speciality Baskets Now in Business: Developing Vocational Skills for Individuals with Disabilites

By Batya Rosner Yachad members Sam Miller and Rosa Barr create specialty gift baskets for YachadGifts.com with the guidance of Project Manager Sara Kramer (standing). Rosa Barr of Brooklyn arrived for her regular morning shift at YachadGifts.com and immediately got to work preparing 50 Chanukah-themed baskets for an upcoming Shabbaton. “Today [Tuesday] we started […]

Impact of Yachad's Inclusive Summer Programs Grows as Organization Becomes One of the Largest Service Providers of Summer Programs for Individuals with Disabilites

November 11, 2013 By Batya Rosner On a given school day morning, sometimes as early as 6:00 a.m., Naphtali Tzvi Yehuda Soloveichik will be on YouTube watching camp videos from his past three summers participating in Yachad’s camper program at Camp Morasha. For Naphtali, 17, who attends a private therapeutic school in his hometown of […]

Yachad Announces Hineinu, a Partnership Across the Jewish Spectrum to Promote Inclusion

November 11, 2013 By Stephen Steiner Yachad, an agency of the Orthodox Union has embarked on Hineinu: Jewish Community for People of All Abilities, the latest initiative in its goal of bringing full Inclusion in Jewish life to those with disabilities. Hineinu (“We are here”) is the first-ever formal combination of human rights and disability […]

Alumni Spotlight

Meet up with Rabbi Maurice Appelbaum and you’ll likely be looking up. Not only because he’s tall, but more importantly because of the type of person that he is, and if you ask him, he’ll tell you that he largely attributes his life trajectory due to his Yachad experience. Yachad members and advisors that participated […]

Dr. Jeff's Corner

Dear Friends of Yachad, Wow- where we’ve been, where we are today. Totally amazing! And where we have yet to go! Dare I say – to boldly go, where no one has gone before. We take for granted, where the Jewish community was 30 years ago, what Yachad has created these past 30 years. Thirty […]

Member Spotlight

Have you ever wondered or been curious what happened to the Yachad members that you were so close with? Each issue we will catch you up by featuring a different Yachad Star member in the Member Spotlight column. This issue we caught up with Bezalel Kosofsky. Bezalel began his Yachad journey as a member of […]