Category: Disability
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Torah on the Body
A Commentary on Parashat Ve’etchanan for the Disability Torah Project. August 4, 2025 Conceptualizing tefillin as a physical signpost reminding us of the vastness and incomprehensible field of divine love with which we are loved collectively and individually is rather new for me.
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The Value of Human Dignity
This talk was originally given on September 16, 2024 and hosted by Laasok.
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Disability as Beloved by G-d
This article was published in Lilith Magazine on August 16, 2024. You can read the full article here. Being a spiritual seeker is part of the human experience. Often, we reach out for connection and to know ourselves better through joining a synagogue or other Jewish institution, or by finding…
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Enough Space, Enough Room
Published by SVARA on April 19, 2024. In her beautiful song, Enough Room, my teacher, Rabba Dorothy Richman invites us to imagine and bring into being the truth that there’s enough room, enough space, enough joy, for all of us here. We find ourselves too often in the narrow place, not knowing…
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Rabbi Tuchman Featured on Judaism Unbound with Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg
Lauren Tuchman is a sought-after spiritual leader and educator whose work focuses on disability access and inclusion. Ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2018, she is, as far as she is aware, the first blind woman in the world to enter the rabbinate. She joins Dan Libenson and Lex…
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Examining Jewish Values on Inclusion and Access – Parts 1, 2, and 3
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman joins Matan Inc. in part one of a three-part series during JDAIM 2024. Closed captioning is available for recording. Part 1 Part 2
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Widening Our Tents: Creating Spiritual Communities of Care for People with Disabilities
Presentation given on February 19, 2024 for the National Bikur Cholim Conference sponsored by the National Association of Jewish Chaplains. Watch the presentation here.
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman 