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JewishJournal.com
'Signs' a Blessing for Hearing-Impaired Teens
The Orthodox Union's Our Way/National Jewish Council for Disabilities (Our Way/NJCD) is now publishing "Signs of Bar Mitzvah," a handbook for deaf and hard-of-hearing teens celebrating a bar mitzvah orally and in sign language.
The handbook is an illustrated guide that features step-by-step instructions for signing the blessings before and after the Torah reading and the blessings made by the student's father. The blessings are written in Hebrew with transliteration and English.
"Many parents with a deaf child are overwhelmed with their child's deafness. They tend to focus on the child's physical needs and often unwittingly overlook the child's spiritual needs," said Rabbi Eliezer Lederfeind, Our Way director.
The guide was created with the direction of T'chia Kastor, a deaf artist, and the assistance of the Our Way Sign Language Committee.
"Signs of Bar Mitzvah" can be used by any deaf person called for an aliyah. Our Way/NJCD is making the handbook available for a suggested donation of $18. For more information, e-mail ourway@ou.org or call (212) 613-8234.
'Signs' a Blessing for Hearing-Impaired Teens
The Orthodox Union's Our Way/National Jewish Council for Disabilities (Our Way/NJCD) is now publishing "Signs of Bar Mitzvah," a handbook for deaf and hard-of-hearing teens celebrating a bar mitzvah orally and in sign language.
The handbook is an illustrated guide that features step-by-step instructions for signing the blessings before and after the Torah reading and the blessings made by the student's father. The blessings are written in Hebrew with transliteration and English.
"Many parents with a deaf child are overwhelmed with their child's deafness. They tend to focus on the child's physical needs and often unwittingly overlook the child's spiritual needs," said Rabbi Eliezer Lederfeind, Our Way director.
The guide was created with the direction of T'chia Kastor, a deaf artist, and the assistance of the Our Way Sign Language Committee.
"Signs of Bar Mitzvah" can be used by any deaf person called for an aliyah. Our Way/NJCD is making the handbook available for a suggested donation of $18. For more information, e-mail ourway@ou.org or call (212) 613-8234.