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Graduates from a What's Mine is Yours class at Keshet in Chicago. (Courtesy Melton via JTA)
February 25, 2026, 5:54 am
New curriculum brings adults with intellectual disabilities into heart of Jewish learning
An increasingly popular program from Melton and Matan adapts Torah, prayer and holiday study for learners around the world who’ve been long left out of formal adult education
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Mira Stahl (Facebook)
April 1, 2024, 9:30 pm
Mira Stahl, 53: Special ed. teacher who touched countless lives
Murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: An empty classroom in the Beit Hakerem neighborhood of Jerusalem on February 10, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 20, 2023, 7:14 pm
High Court rejects Education Ministry move to shorten special education school day
Justices suggest manpower shortage can be made up through use of assistants and national service volunteers, to ensure children with autism have an adequate educational framework
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A kindergarten teacher seen at the 'Kobi kindergarten' in Moshav Yashresh, on February 8, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
July 17, 2023, 9:53 pm
High Court orders government to justify shortening special education school day
ALUT nonprofit for autistic children files petition seeking injunction against Education Ministry’s plan to end classes at 4 p.m. instead of 4:45 p.m. in upcoming school year
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Young ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls seen in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City on March 21, 2012. (Serge Attal/Flash90)
From the WebDecember 29, 2022, 3:47 pm
How a windfall of special education funding benefited Hasidic schools in New York
NY Times: Vast sums claimed for services not always needed, or even provided; parents guided on applying; Yiddish-speaking kids listed as special ed due to language issues
A teacher soothes a student during a theater show at the Gesher School in London, March 7, 2022. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)
September 29, 2022, 6:10 am
London’s Haredi and secular Jews find rare meeting point in special needs school
Filling a gap in the city’s otherwise robust array of Jewish education options, Gesher provides a nurturing environment for students – and a place where diverse parents can engage
By Cnaan Liphshiz
An illustrative photo of a student outside Hadar Elementary School in Kfar Yona, on March 12, 2020. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
April 7, 2020, 8:19 pm
Schools could gradually resume after Passover, starting with special ed students
Education Ministry wants to return kids in shifts or alternating days, but plan hasn’t yet gotten Health Ministry approval as Teachers’ Union warns step premature
By ToI Staff
Ayala, 11, a student with a cognitive disability, communicates via a computer screen with her teacher, Rivka Dimant, in a school at Aleh Negev, a campus for Israelis with disabilities, October 25, 2018. (Ben Sales via JTA)
March 27, 2019, 8:01 am
This new town will be the first fully disability-inclusive community in Israel
Aleh Negev, the only Israeli campus dedicated to students with severe disabilities, will in coming years get an entire adjacent town built for the residents’ needs
By Ben Sales
Nicole Jansezian
September 1, 2017, 4:03 pm
Nicole Jansezian
Inclusion is for the brave — and stupid
Mainstreaming is often the best ‘special education’ for kids like hers, so why does Israel presume it’s doomed to fail?
Dafna Meir, left, with her husband Natan Meir in an undated picture posted on Facebook. (Screen capture: Facebook)
September 5, 2016, 4:50 am
Terror victim’s husband urges adoption of special needs children
In Facebook post, Natan Meir says couple’s son, now starting first grade, is the embodiment of ‘good incarnate’ in the face of terrible evil
By ToI Staff
A brother hugs his sister at Tower of David Museum's Purim program for families with children with special needs, March 2016 (Ricky Rachman)
May 31, 2016, 1:58 am
Families marginalized by disability find warm welcome at Tower of David
Leading the way, Jerusalem museum encourages other cultural institutions to also offer inclusive programs for families with special needs children
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Beth Steinberg
May 6, 2016, 10:33 am
Beth Steinberg
Was it good for you too?
The very people who test special-needs children insult them, making a mockery of the charge to serve each child
Shefa students making self-portrait collages. (The Shefa School)
February 22, 2015, 10:38 pm
NY school sharpens debate between mainstream or special ed
While the Shefa School seeks to be catalyst for day schools serving kids with disabilities, advocates bemoan its ‘segregated’ approach
By Julie Wiener
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown stands next to pictures of the 4 men indicted for stealing from a Far Rockaway special needs school (photo credit: Courtesy/Queens District Attorney)
May 14, 2014, 1:42 am
Rabbi among 4 indicted in $12.4 million theft of NY special ed funds
Each of the defendants faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted
By JTA
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein oversees a plenum session in March, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 5, 2014, 8:27 pm
Knesset investigation: 50 laws not implemented
Speaker decries ministries’ failure to apply legislation, including urgent laws helping special needs children, disabled employees
By Marissa Newman
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