
Making Your Synagogue More Inclusive: Welcoming the Disabled
Create a “buddy system” in which volunteers help a special needs child follow along in the siddur during davening and in the Chumash during the Torah reading. Organize a “Special Needs Shabbaton” where a scholar-in-residence is invited to your shul to educate and enlighten congregants about the special needs population. Approach a shul member who