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Accepting the Challenge: How a Jewish Community Hears and Shares the Needs of Jewish Deaf Members

Author(s)

Louise Cohen-Silver
Barbara Gottschalk

Publication Name

Journal of Jewish Communal Service

Publication Date

Publisher

Conference of Jewish Communal Service
Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA)

Abstract

Special efforts must be undertaken to make the Jewish community accessible and inviting to the Jewish deaf. Currently, the rate of intermarriage and conversion to Christianity among the Jewish deaf community is much higher than in the community as a whole. This article describes the steps taken by the Jewish Social Services Agency in the Washington area to increase the accessibility of the Jewish community to the Jewish deaf.

Geographic Coverage

United States

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Bibliographic Information

Accepting the Challenge: How a Jewish Community Hears and Shares the Needs of Jewish Deaf Members. 1990:  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-bjpa30
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