JDCC is very
grateful to a Jewish family for their generosity in donating a brand new badly-needed
scanner for the MAC!!!
JDCC is happy to share the good news that we have been awarded a grant from the Jewish Community Foundation in Los Angeles to do an exciting multimedia project during next year's Seder! More information will be announced in future issues.
Starting with this issue of JDCC News, we have started a new column,
'Surviving the Holocaust'. In each column, a Deaf Holocaust survivor will share his or her personal experiences. We cannot ignore the past and should make sure that it does not happen again and pass along recollections to present and future generations of what they went through. If you know of any Deaf person who experienced the Holocaust, we would be interested in hearing from them. The series are from materials that was originally developed for the JDCC Deaf Holocaust Survivors Panel that we hosted at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles in 1994.It was nice to see many of you and meet new people during the Jewish Deaf Congress's convention in August. As some of you may recall, I previously served as president of the National Congress of Jewish Deaf (NCJD) for one term which ended two years ago at the NCJD convention in Chicago. Lillian Hanover, whose husband Phillip was the first president of NCJD, had dedicated an Hanover Presidents Award to all past presidents of NCJD. Although my term ended two years ago, I received this Award at this convention. Mazel Tov to Susan Margolin who received the Celia Warshawsky Award, and Bess Hyman who was honored with the Anna & Henry Plapinger Award. Although future JDC conferences are to be held during en odd yearend every two years, the next JDC conference has been scheduled for 2001.
On behalf of the JDCC Board, we wish you a very Happy New Year or, as we say in Hebrew, L'Shana Tovah and an easy fast for Yom Kippur. May the new year bring us lots of good news!!!