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Special Section: Jewish Disabilities Awareness Month

To coincide with Jewish Disabilities Awareness Month (February), JTA — with support from the Ruderman Family Foundation — has put together a special package.

Longtime Israel advocate Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi shifts focus to disabilities

RespectAbility, the advocacy group she founded, aims to bring disabilities out of the closet into two arenas: among employers and the Jewish community.

Hands-free Sesame smartphone opening worlds for physically disabled

The Sesame Phone is designed for people with spinal cord injuries, ALS, cerebral palsy or other disabilities that hamper the use of hands and arms — a population that has been on the outside looking in at the smartphone revolution.