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Ruderman Foundation, Chabad partner on disability inclusion initiative

(JNS.org) The Ruderman Family Foundation (RFF) will devote $1 million to a partnership with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in order to help “create a culture of inclusion” for people with disabilities in about 4,200 communities around the world. According to a press release, the initiative will work to change attitudes within Jewish communities from “doing for” to “working with” people with disabilities. “The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson z”l, taught that every Jew is equal and every Jew is a valued member of our community regardless of their abilities,” RFF President Jay Ruderman said. Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, chairman of Chabad’s educational and social services divisions, said that “the values of inclusion that the Rebbe pioneered are inherent to Chabad.”

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