Hello!

I want you to know I enjoy the JDCC News very much and still would like to continue getting this in the mail.

My son Alexi, goes to Hebrew school. It is his 2nd year and he truly loves Hebrew and is in class with 11 hearing children and has a full time interpreter throughout the years including high holy days etc... I would love if there is another JDCC in Long Island, New York!! Happy New Year,

Cyndi Olson
Fusey@aol.com

Hi,

I work as a Deaf Studies tutor at Van Asch Deaf Education Centre in New Zealand. I teach kids from all ages, and I am Deaf myself. I was browsing through JDCC's web when I happened to find your organization. Would it be possible if you can give me the name of the place where I can buy the publications (books) that talk about Deaf people in the Holocaust? I would really appreciate if you could help me here as it would be a very interesting topic for me to teach to my students. If you would like to know more information, please email me. I look forward to your reply.

Janet Stokes
Janet.Kevin.Stokes@Extra.co.nz
New Zealand

To Whom It May Concern

I received a printout on the "History of Deaf Holocaust Victims" by Sharon Ann Soudakoff thru a friend who attended the recent conference at Gallaudet on this topic. I am very interested in receiving copies of articles printed in various publications. Would it be possible for you to send me a copy of each article? The lab here in our Interpreter Training Dept. would be a perfect place for the students to read these articles and do research. We'd be more than happy to pay for copying expenses.

Edna F. Johnston
Columbia College Chicago
M4ASL@aol.com

Hi Sharon,

Notice that the JDCC News is really improving and more interesting excellent various role models as Jewish Deaf people, keep "value" as religious education, and interesting articles about Jewish Deaf issues. That make me to grow more bond to Jewish Deaf community value! Keep good work! Shalom,

Heidi Zimmer
zimmy07@juno.com

Dear Sharon & JDCC News subscribers,

We find that JDCC News newsletters are valuable and very educational. It made us have the courage to write our letters to JDCC to show that we are all interested in learning!

Fantastic to know about "What is Kibbutz Life All About?" (Issue #35 July/August)

Percy and I want to mention about Henrietta Szold and want to inform you that there's an exhibition about her life and stories in Philadelphia which we saw two years ago. It was worthwhile seeing it!!!

The Jewish deaf school in London, our Headmaster made arrangements for students to take tour on a Kibbutz. We went there for training when I was 14 years old. There were huge farms, they taught us how to take care of farms for a whole day to give us an idea what Kibbutz looks like in Israel.

One of our schoolmate, Benni Icigson (one of 10 Jewish deaf children who escaped from Germany, when Benni was about four years old). He had been training on a Kibbutz for two weeks at the same place where we took our tour. When he was about 15 years old, the headmaster told everyone, "Benno is no longer with us and has moved to Tel Aviv, Israel and living on a Kibbutz. He is a member of the Helen Keller Jewish Deaf Club in Tel Aviv."

Percy and I visited the Kibbutz and stayed there for one night in 1984. Their food is like a wedding party!

Ruth & Percy Morris
Los Angeles, CA