{"id":62486,"date":"2019-12-12T11:58:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=62486"},"modified":"2019-12-12T11:59:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:59:31","slug":"yachad-does-it-all-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/inspiration\/yachad-does-it-all-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Yachad does it all together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something about Yachad that makes people keep coming back to it.<\/p>\n<p>Yachad is the Orthodox Union-run organization that provides programs, services, advocacy, support, and love to people with disabilities and their families.<\/p>\n<p>You would think that its work, while worthy, is unglamorous, and that its pull would be more to a volunteer\u2019s obligation than to any inherent sense of pleasure it would provide. But if you were to think that, you\u2019d be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Yachad means together, and that meaning runs deep. It\u2019s about the sense of togetherness, of oneness, of unity in diversity, that pulls people in and keeps them in. They glory in it.<\/p>\n<p>Yachad draws in volunteers when they are young, and the sense of community they get from it \u2014 and that\u2019s community, mind you, not Lady Bountiful stuff; there is no condescension there, no poor them and wonderful us \u2014 lasts well past their young adulthood, into the rest of their lives. And not only does it help Yachad\u2019s clients \u2014 its primary goal \u2014 it also helps the volunteers, and through them it changes and improves the whole community.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story<a href=\"https:\/\/jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com\/yachad-does-it-all-together\/\"> here on timesofisrael<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something about Yachad that makes people keep coming back to it. Yachad is the Orthodox Union-run organization that provides programs, services, advocacy, support, and love to people with disabilities and their families. 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