disabilities

A model gesturing a hooked nose on the website if the University of Ghent, Belgium. (University of Ghent)

Belgian sign language group defends hooked nose gesture for ‘Jew’

The state-recognized center for the hearing impaired did add the words “negative connotation” to the two videos depicting a long nose and sidecurls.

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 19, 2019 9:25 am

16 Jewish camps get grants to increase accessibility for campers and staff with disabilities

Each grant recipient also committed to increasing its total campers with disabilities to at least 5 percent of the camper population.

April 1, 2019 10:45 am

This Tiny Jew of Pennsylvania Led a Star-Studded, Enormous Life

Moishe Morris “Mace” Bugen was quite a sight. Standing three-and-a-half feet tall, Mace could be spotted driving “Hadassah” — a Jeep custom-fitted with extra-long pedals — around Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley from 1940 to 1980. The Jeep was quite a sight, too: It was plastered with blue-and-white stars and sported its name across the front. Bugen, […]

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