Latest JDMM Parsha video: Parshas Toldos!

Toldos This week's parsha takes a look at the relationship between our forefather Jacob and his twin brother, Esau.

"The famous story of Jacob taking the blessing of the first-born never fails to fascinate us. But what lesson can we learn from this?"

Video: http://www.jewishdeafmm.org/parshas-toldos

Jewish Deaf Multimedia - www.jewishdeafmm.org

Israeli Deaf Video To Increase Awareness

Pay It Forward In Signs, a non-profit organization in Israel created to raise awareness and bridge the gap between the deaf and the hearing communities in Israel, has produced a video that can be seen at YouTube.

"Pay It Forward in Sign Language is a program that seeks the recognition of sign language as an official language in Israel, promotes equal access and opportunity for deaf citizens (including a total accessibility in public institutions) as well as the integration of deaf culture and sign language as part of the curriculum in elementary schools. This program aims at raising awareness in society in order to better integrate and empower Israeli deaf citizens in their community."

The group also has a website which can be translated into English at http://www.payitfwdisl.org.il
Its Facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pay-it-forward-in-sign-language/110699218993662

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaPJcLu4UWo&feature=player_embedded

Memorial monument for Jewish Deaf victims of the nazi regime

DovenShoah The little deaf Ina Nanny Blits celebrated her 5th birthday in the gas chambers.

The old deaf Isaäc Nathans was 83 years old when he died in Westerbork. Maybe he was glad that he died.

Or Yehuda Mayor Hosts Tourney For Deaf-Blind Players

Israel Deaf Chess Blog
Posted on 14/10/2010 by deafchessir

Yesterday, October 13, 2010, was a historic day for the city of Or Yehuda and State of Israel: the Municipalty of Or Yehuda with its Mayor David Yosef along with the Israel Deaf Chess Council organized a very unique event – the National Chess Championship for the Deaf-Blind People!

New Language Meets New ‘Genius’

Carol Padden, the First Deaf MacArthur Grantee, Studies How Bedouins Use Sign Language

By Gabrielle Birkner
Published October 27, 2010, issue of November 05, 2010.
The Jewish Daily Forward

As early immigrants to what is now Israel were learning how to communicate in a revived ancient language, the hard-of-hearing among them were creating a new language altogether. Combining signs from most all of the different countries from which the Jewish populations emigrated, Israeli Sign Language began to take shape in the 1930s. Around the same time, in a small village in Israel’s Negev Desert, another sign language was forming — one that did not grow out of older, existing sign languages, but arose, organically, out of the need to communicate with four deaf children born into one Bedouin family.

Photo: Caption: Ideal Setting: In Al-Sayyid village, researcher Carol Padden (right) has ‘the rare opportunity to observe a human language almost at the start of its development.’ Photo courtesy of Carol Padden.

Bat mitzva bash a big, big bake

by NJJN Staff
October 20, 2010

In celebration of her bat mitzva, Chaya Grossbaum of Livingston made a lot of dough — the flour and yeast kind — when, on Oct. 14, about 400 women and girls gathered at the Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus in Whippany for her Mega Challah Bake.

Jewish Deaf Congress Plans Next Conference

JDC_website The Jewish Deaf Congress (JDC), a national 501(c)(3) organization for Jewish deaf people, has launched a website with information on their next conference.

Connex bus drivers to learn sign language

Boaz Fyler
Published: 09.30/10, 07:59
Israel Activism

Transportation's company to learn sign language in hopes of improving service to deaf community