Ignoring Jewish special needs kids

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Jewish parents in New York are charging that Orthodox Jewish day schools in the city are not accommodating special-needs children in the community, particular when kids with Down’s Syndrome can be "mainstreamed."

NY 1 TV filed a video report on the subject, and several months ago Rabbi Dovid Cohen of the Young Israel of the West Side penned a column in the N.Y. Jewish Week about schools’ rejection of his own child, who has Down’s Syndrome.

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