Disability

Jewish Camp Trendspotting: 10 Ways a Summer Ritual is Changing

By Julie Wiener Nostalgia about summer traditions notwithstanding, Jewish camps have changed dramatically from a generation ago. Camp’s value for ...

The Importance of Going to a Jewish Camp

This post is part of our series dedicated to Jewish Disability Awareness Month. When I was seven years old, I ...

5 Reasons Parents Should Send Their Children With Disabilities to Jewish Camp

This post is part of our series dedicated to Jewish Disability Awareness Month. I must confess. When I first started ...

The Hobby Lobby Supreme Court Case: How One Case Could Change Everything

Rabbi (to be) Ari Naveh recently shared how he balances the line between being a gay rabbi—and a rabbi who ...

Jewish Disability Awareness Month

February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month (JDAM), which brings a topic that is very important to us at the Foundation ...

The What-if Moment

There’s no point pretending this blog post is going to be about camp or summer, especially summer. Montreal in February ...

We Hereby Resolve

On New Year’s Eve, my wife, Cynthia, our son, Jonah, just turned fifteen, our new puppy, Phoebe, five months old, ...

My Son, His Autism, and My New Appreciation for Hanukkah

Last August, when my son, Jonah, returned from sleepaway camp with a sunburn, an array of nasty-looking mosquito bites, and a ...

The Truth about Pink

When my 14-year-old son Jonah returned from sleep away camp this past summer it was with some surprising new interests. ...

October Blues

It’s only been a month and a half since my son Jonah returned from sleep-away camp and I’m already feeling ...

What We Can Learn from the Rich Symbolism of Sukkot

There are more spiritually resonant symbols associated with the Festival of Sukkot than with any other major Jewish holiday. On ...

Camp Turned My Son into a Teenager

A few weeks ago, in a parking lot in Montreal, with hip-hop music blaring from oversized speakers, and lanes delineated ...