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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 33–35.
Published: 01 November 2014
...TZVI C. MARX Rabbi Joseph was concerned specifically with obligations imposed upon persons with disabilities, but we must also be aware of the obligations imposed upon able persons in relation to people with disabilities, e.g., how able people speak to or about them. It is with respect to both...
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Tikkun (2015) 30 (2): 24–25.
Published: 01 April 2015
...JULIA WATTS BELSER Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 The resilient networks of mutual support fashioned through disability communities offer a powerful testimony to the conditions that enhance our chances in difficult days, just as they lay plain the qualities that nurture our capacity...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 21.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2014 Disability activism often starts with a call for accessible spaces — for ramps, interpreters, braille copies, and fragrance-free gatherings. But a deeper engagement with disability justice requires more than a series of accommodations: it requires...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 22–23.
Published: 01 November 2014
...TOM SHAKESPEARE Within the Christian tradition, thinkers like Hans Reinders have been challenging us to consider how we reach out to and include people with intellectual disabilities. For example, in his book Receiving the Gift of Friendship , Reinders argues that we must regard people...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 27–28.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of inappropriate venues; I didn’t flinch. “I have a disability,” I said, though it was plain she’d already noticed. A firm full stop followed that statement, though I knew full well I didn’t answer her question. I’m more than willing to talk about disability, but I’m disinclined to do so while waiting...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 31–32.
Published: 01 November 2014
...LYDIA BROWN Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2014 A ndre mccollins was eighteen years old in 2002 when he was a student at the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Massachusetts. Like many of the students at the center, a residential institution for people with disabilities, Andre is autistic...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 37–38.
Published: 01 November 2014
...LAVONNA LOVERN Historically, Native American families and communities have been faced with well-intentioned health workers, social workers, and teachers who believe it is important to label children of difference as “disabled” and, in some cases, to remove them from their community. For example...
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Published: 01 November 2014
Tom Olin Participants in ADAPT, a grassroots disability rights group, demonstrate against proposed cuts to Medicaid in Washington, D.C.
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Published: 01 November 2014
Cheryl Kaplan “Is this what disability spiritualities might look like?” the author writes. “Here is a sanctuary, created by nothing but bodies, attention, and soft fabrics.”
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Published: 01 November 2014
Creative Commons/U.S. Department of Labor Disability rights activists from ADAPT talk with U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Seth Harris about federal rules governing personal attendants.
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 43–44.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Creative Commons/U.S. Department of Labor Disability rights activists from ADAPT talk with U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Seth Harris about federal rules governing personal attendants. ...
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Tikkun (2000) 15 (3): 76–79.
Published: 01 August 2000
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Published: 01 November 2014
David M. Planka ( plankomatic.com ) When disabilities are diagnosed in utero, some turn to religious authorities for advice. “My friends presented the possibility of abortion as a Jewish legal question,” the author writes. Self-Portrait as a Schizophrenic by David Planka.
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Published: 01 November 2014
Creative Commons “Because the spirit is always whole, there is no designation of some people as able and others as disabled,” Lovern writes.
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Published: 01 November 2014
Mareva Minerbi Participants in “Helping Dances” gather outdoors to enact loving interdependence, offering caring touch and affirmation to other people with disabilities.
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Published: 01 November 2014
Emily Rabasto At a candlelight vigil in Sacramento, a mourner from the Autistic Self Advocacy Network weeps for the hundreds of disabled people who have been killed by their parents or caregivers.
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 24–26.
Published: 01 November 2014
... and Western medicine, she suddenly stabs me with a metaphorical needle, puncturing our trust: in the same calm tone she has been using all morning, she tells me that, within Chinese religions, physical illness and disability are often understood as “a result of mistakes made in a previous life — a disability...
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Published: 01 November 2014
Chris Johnston/Eureka Street ( eurekastreet.com.au ) Building ramps is important, but congregations must also examine their theologies and metaphors to make sure they are not hostile to people with disabilities. Accessible Churches by Chris Johnston.
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 41–42.
Published: 01 November 2014
.... Just as so many others have done before, the stranger chose to bestow the blessings of God on me — a Latino man with cerebral palsy — in particular that night, singling me out among all the people in the street that evening. Did he single me out because he assumed I had a disability? If so, did he see...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 29–30.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Cheryl Kaplan “Is this what disability spiritualities might look like?” the author writes. “Here is a sanctuary, created by nothing but bodies, attention, and soft fabrics.” ...
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