Accessibility and Accommodations

Accessibility and Accommodations in Jewish Spaces discusses the importance of involving individuals with disabilities in accessibility efforts and offers several steps individuals and organizations can take to improve accessibility.

Individuals with various disabilities contributed suggestions for making gatherings more accessible.

This Hanukkah handout features a dreidel game that prompts us to remove barriers for individuals with disabilities and further full participation in Jewish life. It includes links to accessible dreidels and a virtual dreidel game. 

This High Holy Days bookmark prompts us to consider accessibility and accommodations for individuals with various disabilities, while this family recipe card encourages children to commit to one new accommodation to support their peers.

This Purim handout provides suggestions for hosting an accessible Megillah Reading, Purim Shpiel, and Purim Carnival. 

This family activity for Purim provides easy instructions for creating a sensory-friendly grogger/noisemaker. 

This Passover handout discusses how those with disabilities can help lead efforts to transform our Jewish spaces into communities of belonging by sharing their lived experience and also includes several suggestions for hosting an accessible Passover Seder.

JDAIM Community Learning Evening: We enjoyed a great evening learning with wonderful disability advocate Emily Ladau. Watch the recording to learn from Emily about demystifying disability and advocating for accessibility and accommodations in Jewish spaces.