Jewish Views On Disability

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Disability in Jewish Law by Tzvi C. Marx (Hardback, 2002)

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During a shul service the Torah must be read from the actual scroll and not from a book or text which someone with sight difficulties might prefer. Other ways people without sight might be excluded include serving as a witness or delivering a get. The ministering Angels told me four things.

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However throughout the Talmud the sages discuss exceptions to rulings. There are many examples of exceptions to the rule in the Talmud which is a good indication flexibility is nearly always possible. The Babylonian Talmud reports: In the Mishnah we learn business can be conducted by lip-reading and signing.

It seems clear there is nothing other than lack of imagination or motivation to prevent a community from looking at the way services are run from the perspective of someone with a disability to identity changes that might be made to facilitate better inclusion. The idea is no one minds if someone moves about or takes a break during the service due to pain, anxiety or whatever. MLJC has a Facebook page in order to create a sense of community involvement and to encourage engagement.

By posting about forthcoming events and photos it serves as a window to reach out to others who may not belong to a community and might feel isolated.

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Taken together, Kisch's and Gutman's work contribute positively to a growing body of comparative empirical research on the lived experiences of individuals or groups with single impairments, contesting theoretical, societal, and cross-cultural assumptions concerning these groups. Besides the strengthening of disability-related research in recent years, Israel had also experienced its share of activism around disability issues.

Disability in Jewish Law by Tzvi C. Marx (Hardback, 2002)

One of the most pivotal moments in disability activism in Israel was in the major protests of and Hila Rimon-Greenspan's article analyzes these protests as a form of contentious politics and connects them to more traditional political legal advocacy, conducted by the Bizchut organization, discussed above. Rimon-Greenspan employs Ulrich Beck's definition of subpolitics to demonstrate how these platforms protests and legal rights-based advocacy contributed both to making disability more visible and created a shift in the way disability was perceived.

Rimon-Greenspan demonstrates how Israeli disability policy and legislation have gradually shifted from a needs-based to a human rights and equality-based platform, and she details the changes that still need to occur to create a full paradigm shift in the way disability is viewed by its activists. But did disability protests start in , as many researchers, activists, and the media like to portray them?

Sharon Barnartt and Rachel Rotman show us that contentious politics have been used in Israel in relation to disability in intervals throughout the years.

Through event-history analysis, they provide a quantitative description of 36 disability-related protests as displayed in the media , which occurred between Their surprising findings suggest that, in fact, and were not the most protest-heavy years in relation to disability. They also found that the majority of the demands made in these protests concerned services, not rights.

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Although this article differs in scope and methodology to that of Rimon-Greenspan, taken together, they provide a wide description, and somewhat conflicted analysis, of the possibilities and actualities of the emergence of a disability movement in Israel. The writers of this article are the facilitators and some of the participants in the leadership course for people with disabilities, sponsored by Shatil discussed above.

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The authors detail the course process through their use of personal-reflection narratives by the course participants, synthesized together and reflected upon by the course facilitators. One of the most fascinating elements of the course was the explicit attempt to make it cross-disability, intentionally incorporating a significant number of people with psychiatric disabilities. Honestly and vividly, the participants reflect on their attempts to think critically and create coalitions "across disability. Many of the articles in this volume touch upon legal developments in the field of disability in Israel.

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Neta Ziv's and Dina Feldman's articles take the law as their primary subject matter. Dina Feldman, who is the acting Commissioner for Equal Rights of People with Disabilities, connects two seemingly unrelated concepts — environmental justice and disability law. She demonstrates the parallel concerns between environmental justice, as defined by the UN Aarhus Convention, and disability law, as seen in both the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities and the regulations detailed in Israel's Equal Rights of Persons with Disabilities Law, enacted in Feldman finds that disability rights law has a great potential for achieving environmental justice, which can lead to the creation of barrier-free environments and increase the right to participate in decision-making regarding the creation of such inclusive environments.

Feldman concludes by stating that Israel still has a long way to go in order to realize this vision, as it is only in the first steps of implementation of its own disability equality law. Neta Ziv's article also deals with legal issues in relation to disability but from the perspective of its users.

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In Israel enacted a comprehensive law requiring accommodations for persons with disabilities in the justice system. The law applies to police investigations and court testimonies of persons with mental and cognitive disabilities. Ziv's paper probes the encounter between the justice system and the so-called helping professionals at the evidentiary stage, when persons with mental and cognitive disabilities testify in court about crimes committed against them.

Ziv discusses the implications of implementing this law in actuality, as it involves the expertise of therapeutic professionals in testing the truth claims of witnesses with cognitive and mental disabilities. Ziv not only investigates the problematics of the law as it collides with its implementation, but sees it as a site of investigating truth claims in a court settings in general as well.

As with every anthology, it is important to note not only what it includes, but perhaps equally important, what it omits. There are many legal difficulties facing people without sight not least the problem of being called up to read from the Torah as it cannot be recited from memory. During a shul service the Torah must be read from the actual scroll and not from a book or text which someone with sight difficulties might prefer.

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Other ways people without sight might be excluded include serving as a witness or delivering a get. The ministering Angels told me four things.

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Disability in Jewish Law 1st Edition. The student resources previously accessed via GarlandScience. In such cultures children born with an imperfection or disability were commonly left to die. However throughout the Talmud the sages discuss exceptions to rulings. Their surprising findings suggest that, in fact, and were not the most protest-heavy years in relation to disability. The writers of this article are the facilitators and some of the participants in the leadership course for people with disabilities, sponsored by Shatil discussed above. The activities, ideologies, and platforms of new NGOs have contributed to the broader context in which Disability Studies initiatives have emerged, and have helped facilitate a redefinition of disability in Israel.

The Babylonian Talmud reports: In the Mishnah we learn business can be conducted by lip-reading and signing. It seems clear there is nothing other than lack of imagination or motivation to prevent a community from looking at the way services are run from the perspective of someone with a disability to identity changes that might be made to facilitate better inclusion.

The idea is no one minds if someone moves about or takes a break during the service due to pain, anxiety or whatever. MLJC has a Facebook page in order to create a sense of community involvement and to encourage engagement.