February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month

From the Religious Action Center (RAC) of Reform Judaism (1/12/10):

February 2010 is the second annual Jewish Disability Awareness Month. During October, the United States observed National Disability Employment Awareness Month, but because October is too close to the High Holy Days for Jewish programming, all branches of Judaism - Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist, and most if not all Jewish organizations and agencies - selected February as Jewish Disability Awareness Month.

This February, local synagogues, organizational chapters and federations are observing Jewish Disability Awareness Month with special programming to educate their members about people with all kinds of disabilities - physical, intellectual, psychological and more...

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For Additional Resources go to

the RAC's Jewish Disability Awareness Month page

the Union for Reform Judaism's Disability Awareness Month Page

the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation Disability Awareness Month Page