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Jewish Disabilities Awareness, Acceptance, & Inclusion Month (JDAIM) takes place every year in February. JDAIM is “An effort among Jewish organizations and communities worldwide to raise awareness and foster inclusion of people with disabilities and those who love them.”
Three years after graduating, Ezra is still learning Torah with his Sulam rebbe, Rabbi Joshua Baldinger.
“Rabbi Baldinger spent so much time with me when I was a Sulam student. He learned with me on Friday nights at Yeshiva, he taught me how to fish, he was a role model to me.”
When I was in 9th grade I came to Sulam. I didn’t know how to talk to people. I just didn’t know what to do. I was embarrassed. I was lonely. I was angry. I felt worried that I would never have friends and that I would always be lonely.
"If there is no such thing as the average learner, and we shouldn’t be using curriculum designed for the average, how can we possibly teach to the very wide variability of students within each classroom, not to mention the variability of learning within each student?"
Being in Israel (during Parshat Vayeitzei in which Jacob dreams of a ladder - sulam) with 19 Sulam students, who were integrated and included in every aspect of the Mission, has been an uplifting experience for every single person here.
