special needs

Reflections by a Camper with Down Syndrome

This post is part of our series dedicated to Jewish Disability Awareness Month. In the fall of 2013, the Foundation ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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