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Meet Yael Hamburger
Born and raised in Baltimore and now calling Canton home, Yael Hamburger is all about building community through movement, meaning and connection. Whether she’s running along the waterfront, planning gatherings with The Network or balancing nursing school at Johns Hopkins, Yael brings heart, energy and openness to everything she does. Her story is a beautiful […]
Being a GRANDparent… is GRAND!
By Sheri Stern (center in photo), Special Needs Grandparent Support Group Participant On the day before our first Seder in 2014, my daughter, Michelle, and son-in-law, John, told my husband, Jeffrey, and I that we would become grandparents that November. In that moment, we became Pop-Pop and Bubbe, our self-selected names, and we have been […]
The Trip of a Lifetime: Jewish DeafBlind Adults Explore Israel for the First Time
By Yael Zelinger, Jewish DeafBlind Experience, Coordinator For many members of the Jewish DeafBlind community, traveling to Israel as a fully accessible Jewish group has been a long-held dream. For years, participants in Jewish DeafBlind Shabbatons talked about what it might mean to experience Israel in a way designed specifically for their needs. In November […]