Disabilities in the Worlds of the Rabbis

For as long as there have been humans, we have been differently abled from one another. Come explore texts from different times and places when different rabbis and Jewish laypeople made revolutionary decisions about the treatment of people with disabilities. In assessing these parts of our history, we will learn more about what the evolving Jewish tradition teaches us about our responsibilities towards individuals with disabilities today.

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Since July of 2022, Rabbi Jonah Rank has served as President and Rosh Yeshivah of Chicago's Hebrew Seminary: A Rabbinical School for Deaf & Hearing. Rabbi Rank holds a MA in Jewish Thought from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was ordained in 2015. Rabbi Rank is an award-winning Jewish musician, an editor of Masorti: The New Journal of Conservative Judaism, and a former member of the Environmental Advisory Council of Lower Makefield, PA.