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Friday, October 10, 1986
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Care Urged For Deaf
Jews' Spiritual Needs
BEN GALLOB
Special to The Jewish News
ynagogues offer sub-
standard Judaism to
the disabled Jew in
general and to the deaf Jew
in particular, contends Rabbi
Elyse Goldstein of Holy Blos-
som Temple in Toronto.
The rabbi reports in Sh'ma
of the frustration expressed
by the deaf over their diffi-
culty in finding comfort and
meaning in Jewish congrega-
tions.
Based upon extrapolations
of data on the total of deaf
Americans, Goldstein esti-
mates there are as many. as
35-50,000 hearing-impaired
Jews in the largest American
Jewish communities of New
York and Los Angeles and
2-5,000 in cities such as Bos-
ton and Toronto.
She vividly recalls her first
Rosh Hashanah in Temple
Beth Or of the Deaf in Man-
hattan. She recited to the 200
worshippers the command-
ment to hear the call of the
shofar."
When the worshippers
failed to respond with a col-
lective "Amen," Goldstein
suddenly understood that she
was the only person in the
sanctuary who actually could
hear the blast of the shofar.
There followed a quick re-
translation — "and com-
manded us to hear the call
and feel the vibrations of the
shofar." Two hundred pairs of
hands "clasped in a silent
sign for Amen — intertwined,
coming toward the chest, a
movement of spiritual recog-
nition," she writes. _
She report's that "we blew
the shofar in three different
places; in front, in the center
and in back; and each time
hands reached out to fulfill
the mitzvah and actually
touch the shofar or feel the
air in front of it, thick with
reverberations."
Goldstein suggests that
such concern for the spiritual
needs of deaf Jews was some-
thing of a rarity. She re-
ported that some deaf Jews
"give up on our community
out of frustration; some pre-
tend they can hear and
understand services, lectures,
adult study and the like."
But the fact is, she declares,
they "catch" only a small
percent by lip-reading. She
says evidence indicates that
lipreaders understand only
about 65 percent of every in-
tended communication.
She reports that the New
York Society for the Deaf, a
beneficiary agency of the
New York Federation of
Jewish Philanthropies, has
been serving hearing-
impaired Jews since 1907,
but that only in the past 20
years have synagogues begun
to provide systematically and
professionally religious serv-
ices for these Jews. But much
more needs to be done, she
argues.
She asserts that "not only
does assimilation and inter-
marriage run excessively
high in this community, but
deaf Jews have long turned
to churches, and now cults, to
satisfy their spiritual needs."
She suggests that one rea-
son why deaf Jews do not get
the communal concern they
need and deserve is the im-
pact of the "dual fantasy."
On the one hand, the
Jewish community has not
been aware of the significant
numbers of Jewish disabled,
in this case, the hearing-
impaired. She lumps this
"myth" that "this really isn't
a problem in the Jewish
community" with "other
naivetes" such as "we don't
have any Jewish alcoholics."
On the other hand, "we
convince ourselves that 'we
take care of our own.' Just let
the physically handicapped
come we say, and we will
make ourselves accessible."
She sharply criticizes the
"sub-standard Judaism that
we offer the disabled in gen-
eral but the deaf in particu-
lar. "I have stopped counting
the number of deaf Jews I
have met who never had a
bar or bat mitzvah because
`the rabbi didn't know what
to do with me' or the deaf
Jew who was handed an
English translation and told
`just read this for your bar
mitzvah."'
She recalls deaf Jews "who
didn't understand their own
weddings because no one
thought to provide an in-
terpreter. Or the deaf Jews
shunted aside at funerals
where well-meaning rabbis
recite the Kaddish for them,
not bothering to provide an
English transliteration or
stand beside them at a lip-
reading distance."
She describes this as the
"good enough for them" syn-
drome, and added "it is the
bane of a disabled Jew's
existence."
Declaring that a world
without sound is "not a world
without song," Goldstein as-
serts that "hands can dance
God's praises as lips can
speak it. Hearts can listen
though ears cannot hear.
Even Moses was disabled; he
spoke with difficulty. Yet he
is the greatest Jewish role
model."
Copyright 1986, Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency
NCJW Gets Grant
New York — The National
Council of Jewish Women has
received a $50,000 grant from
the Ford Foundation for its
research project, "Mothers in
the Workplace," to study the
rapidly changing needs of
families in which mothers
work.
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