Here are a few places to visit for information about accessibility and disability.

• • Video on communication.  Creator is autistic.  Description “The first part is in my “native language,” and then the second part provides a translation, or at least an explanation. This is not a look-at-the-autie gawking freakshow as much as it is a statement about what gets considered thought, intelligence, personhood, language, and communication, and what does not
  • Rabbi Professor Julia Watts Belser www.juliawattsbelser.com
    • has written extensively on the portrayal of disability in rabbinic literature.
    • “Violence, Disability, and the Politics of Healing” – Eiesland Endowment Lecture https://vimeo.com/123748777
    • Disability and Climate Change Archive at Georgetown University
    • Talk and paper on Jacob and the angel and disability dance
      • Recorded talk – contains much of the paper here 
      • Academic paper “Improv and the Angel: Disability Dance, Embodied Ethics, and Jewish Biblical Narrative” here
    • In her article in Tikkun, “God has Wheels,” Belser talks about the transgressive potential of disability culture (if you are not a Tikkun subscriber, try ejournals at a public library).
  • Rabbi Elliot Kukla
    • Video of the talk Rabbi Kukla (no longer available) delivered about resisting the forces in society which want to brand as pathological the person who learns to accept chronic illness and even to draw creative energy from it.
    • Rabbi Kukla has written about the magnificent art they created in the process of finding deeper meaning in their illness.  The article includes a version of Rabbi Kukla’s Blessing for Healing Ableism
    • Rabbi Kukla – link to The Holiness of Being Broken: Trauma and Disability Justice  “Most of us will experience some form of trauma or wounding in our lifetime. Trauma and disability are essential parts of what make us human and what connects us to one another.”
    • Article in New York times  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/opinion/in-my-chronic-illness-i-found-a-deeper-meaning.html
    • https://truthout.org/articles/disability-doesnt-make-us-less-worthy-of-life-covid-policy-assumes-it-does/
  • Rabbi Lauren Tuchman
    • A written conversation with disability justice advocate Rabbi Lauren Tuchman can be found here. 
    • See Rabbi Tuchman’s Eli Talk “We Were All At Sinai: The Transformative Power of Inclusive Torah
  • Rabbi Ruti Regan https://www.facebook.com/RabbiRutiRegan “is a Conservative rabbi, feminist, ritual artist, and disabled disability advocate.”
  • Matan A. Koch is the Senior Policy Advisor at RespectAbility, a nonprofit organization fighting stigmas and advancing opportunities so that people with disabilities can participate in all aspects of society.
  • Many beautiful works of deaf art are collected here .
  • https://jewishsacredaging.com/heroes-who-limp/ – Rabbi Steven Sager
  • Joy Ladin  https://www.keshetonline.org/resources/wrestling-till-dawn-parashat-vayishlach/  Wrestling Till Dawn (Parashat Vayishlach)  [Torah Queeries]  The author compares her own personal story of wrestling with her gender identity to Jacob’s life stories and struggles.
  • Judy Heumann   bio https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Heumann   video https://youtu.be/qmGljzieVqA   at about 15 minutes she starts talking about how virtual meetings in synagogues without closed captions or sign language do not provide deaf and hard of hearing with a good experience.
  • The spoon theory was developed by Christine Miserandino but her site is no longer active.  Find it on wikipedia