Jewish Deaf Services
by Sharon Ann Dror
JDCC maintains a comprehensive resource and referral service. We constantly update our records on the many Jewish Deaf organizations across the country. There has been many changes since the National Congress of Jewish Deaf was reorganized as Jewish Deaf Congress. A good number of organizations who were affiliated with NCJD/JDC have since ceased.
Temple Beth Or of the Deaf in New York, the Cleveland Hebrew Association of the Deaf in Ohio, Chabad House's Hearing Impaired Program in Los Angeles, the Jewish Captioned Films in Baltimore, Maryland and Boston Hebrew Association of the Deaf are among the organizations no longer in existence.
In this issue we list the various services and programs available to Jewish Deaf people. We would also welcome your nomination of other worthwhile groups and causes for possible addition to this resource listing.
Looking For A Rabbi?
Many inquiries JDCC receives also has to do with availability of Rabbis for wedding or bar/bat mitzvahs. At this time there are two Deaf Rabbis within the Jewish Deaf Community:
Rabbi Rebecca L. Dubowe, Thousand Oaks, California
[Reform] E-Mail: rabreb@aol.comRabbi Fred Friedman, Baltimore, Maryland
[Orthodox] E-Mail: ffri@loc.gov
Marlee Matlin designed "Hope For The Holidays" Holiday Card 2000
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Beth Torah of the Deaf
Betty Kasher
4714 Beach 47 Street, Brooklyn, NY 11224
bkasher@aol.com
Brooklyn Hebrew Society of the Deaf
Bernice Farr
1864 85th Street #6F, Brooklyn, NY 11214
bfarrl 864 @ aol.com
Congregation Bene Shalom-Hebrew Association of the Deaf
Nona Balk
4435 West Oakton Street, Skokie, IL 60076
ravdoug @ aol.com
www.beneshalom.org
Jewish Community Center Association of the Deaf - Florida
Alex Fleischman
4960 E Sabal Palm Bldg #7, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33319
algettef @ aol.com
Jewish Deaf Community Center
Sharon Ann Dror
507 Bethany Road, Burbank, CA 91504
JDCCNews@aol.com
www.jdcc.org
Jewish Deaf/Hearing Impaired Council of New Jersey
Sally Cohen
5 Terry Terrace, Livingston, NJ 07039
jcohenret@ aol.com
Jewish Deaf Society of Baltimore
Rabbi Fred Friedman
6108 Gist Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21215 ffri @ loc. gov
Manhattan's Young Adult Jewish Deaf
Marla Berkowitz
215 East 77th Street #4B, New York, NY 10021
mcbnyc@aol.com
New York Hebrew Association of the Deaf
Ben Finkin
8255 242 Street, Bellerose, NY 11426
brfinkin@aol.com
Philadelphia Hebrew Association of the Deaf, Inc.
Robert Katz
8027 Castor Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19152
katzbob @ aol.com
www.hometown.aol.com/katzbob
Temple Beth Solomon of the Deaf
Jan Seeley
5429 Lindley Avenue, Tarzana, CA 91356
jsee2 @ aol.com
www.tbsdeafjewish.org
Toronto Jewish Association of the Deaf
Eddy Wiesblatt
154 Henry St, Rockwood,Canada NOB-2K0
tjadeaf @ msn.com
Washington Society of Jewish Deaf
Stephen Brenner
8400 Jeb Stuart Road, Potomac, MD 20854
stevebl003@aol.com
COLLEGE CAMPUS:
Hillel at Gallaudet University
Jewish Campus Ministries
Gallaudet University - Ely Center
800 Florida Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002
Jewishgallaudet@hillelwash.org
www.hillel.org
Wolk Center at Rochester Institute of Technology
Ellie Rosenfield
National Technical Institute for the Deaf, 52 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5604
EDRDHD@ rit.edu
RABBINICAL PROGRAM:
Hebrew Seminary of the Deaf
Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer
4435 W Oakton St, Skokie, IL 60076
hebrewsemdeaf @ juno.com
www.hebrewseminarydeaf.org
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Association of Jewish Parents of the Deaf
Sandy Feldman
1084 West Broadway, Woodmere, NY 11598
www.ou.org
Jewish Deaf Congress
Martin Florsheim
214-11 85th Avenue, Hollis Hills, NY 11427-1325
florsheim@aol.com
www.conf2oo3jdc.com
Jewish Deaf Resource Center
Marla Berkowitz
215 East 77th Street #4B, New York, NY 10021
jdrc50lc3@aol.com
www.jdrc.org
Jewish Deaf Singles Registry
Samuel Landau
PO. Box 2005, New York, NY 10159-2005
SRLandau9@aol.com
www.jdsr.org
Our Way/National Conference of Synagogue Youth
Rabbi Eliezar Lederfiend & Batya Jacob
11 Broadway, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10004
Ourway@ou.org or arielib@ou.org
www.ou.org
SUMMER CAMP:
Camp Ramah in the Poconos - Kesher Program
Marla Berkowitz
The Pavilion, Suite 734, 261 Old York Road, Jenkintown, PA 19046
MarlaB @ ramahpoconos.org
www.ramahpoconos.org
JUDAICA VIDEOTAPES:
Jewish Heritage and Holidays in ASL Videos
Cassia Margolis
629 Golf Lane, Indianapolis, IN 462604112
asljhah @ hotmail.com
ONLINE DISCUSSION:
Jewish Sign Email Discussion Group
Rabbi David Kay
3220 La Costa Circle #204, Naples, FL 34105
Rabbi@maayan-naples.org
Jewish Signers of Massachusettes
Dawn Skwersky Schakett
P.O. Box 1920, Brookline, MA 02446
JewishSignersOfMA @ yahoogroups.com
wordofhand@aol.com
YESHIVA:
Yeshivas Nefesh Dovid
The International Jewish High School for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Boys
Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Kakon
129 McGillivray Avenue, Toronto, Canada M5M 2Y7
kakon @ nefeshdovid.com
www.nefeshdovid.com
OUR WAY'S LOCAL CHAPTERS:
ARIZONA - Phoenix
Shirley Grossman
3718 W. Mercer Lane, Phoenix, AZ 85029
swjgrossman@aol.com
CALIFORNIA - North Hollywood
Lori Moore
5521 Bluebell Avenue, North Hollywood, CA 91607
lovelylieba@juno.com
ILLINOIS - Skokie
Libby Chernoff
4620 Greenwood, Skokie, IL 60076
labbyc@aol.com
INDIANA - Carmel
Hillel Goldberg
2118 E. 111th Street, Carmel, IN 46032
debrahillel@aol.com
MARYLAND - Baltimore
David Kastor
2505 Hal Circle, Baltimore, MD 21209
dkastor@hcfa.gov
NEW JERSEY - Passaic
Judy Citer
411 Passaic Ave, Passaic, NJ 07055
JUDYCITER@MILLIMAN.COM
NEW YORK - Long Island
Faigy Zaretsky
10 Chestnut Drive, Plainview, NY 11803
poppy55@aol.com
NEW YORK - Westchester
Mattice Aaronson
12 Elmridge St., Scarsdale, NY 10583
maaronson@eisner.rae.com
OHIO - Cleveland Heights
Debra Weiser
3619 Blanche Avenue, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
deborahart@juno.com
PENNSYLVANIA - Philadelphia
Avraham Globman
6038 Overbrook Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19131
VIRGINIA- Fairfax
Leah Caplan
3958 Persimmon Drive #103. Fairfax, VA 22031
leahartist@yahoo.com
CANADA - Montreal
Frank Duchoeny
928 Emerson, Chomedy, Quebec, Canada
H7W3Y4FRANK@INFO-INTERNETNET
CANADA - ONTARIO - Toronto
Joely Bernstein
167 Shelborne Avenue, Toronto, Canada M6B 2M9
Joely@PalomaBlanca.com
ISRAEL - Jerusalem
Sara Seruya
31 Rechov Rozhin Apt. #21, Har Nof, Jerusalem, Israel 011-972-2-651-9956