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The three-hour morning pro- gram featured talks by interna- tional inclusion experts Dr. Forest and Ms. Snow, a video pre- sentation and a question-and-an- swer period. Lunch and dialogue followed the morning segment. Howard Gelberd, director of the host Agency for Jewish Edu- cation which co-sponsored the event with other community groups, said the program was necessary to sensitize the com- munity to the needs of all stu- dents. "We have to realize that it is not cost-effective to make inclu- sion work," he said. "It is going to be complicated. We need good support in the classroom and in the synagogue, in the communi- ty:, Parents in the audience, some cradling infants, wept as the pro- gram began with a slide show de- picting a range of children of all abilities as part of community ac- tivities. "I can't help but get emotion- al," said Golda Cohen, a parent of a disabled child. "It is a very personal issue for me." Dr. Forest compared the need to recognize the importance of in- clusion to the society's treatment of Jews before the Holocaust. She said the disabled, like Jews in Eu- rope, are exiled and not allowed to make the same living as able- bodied people. "If the Jewish community doesn't understand it, no one will understand," Dr. Forest said. Dr. Forest defined inclusion as learning to live with all others in a community, not just being in a community. "What part of all don't we un- derstand?" she asked the crowd. "In some places all doesn't include Jews. In some places it does not include Indians. In nearly all places, it is people in wheelchairs or people with Down's syndrome. The question is: "Where do we want all to begin and end?" "For us, it is a rights and jus- tice issue, not a Jerry Lewis Pity- a-thon," she said. The Jewish community needs to know the importance of inclusion. Ms. Snow opened the second portion of the morning segment with a story about a 12-year-old girl in Canada who recently was killed by her parents for having Down's syndrome. "You can be convinced to ex- clude them, to make them poor, to kill them," she said. From her fully motorized wheelchair she controls with tiny movements of her thumb, Ms. Snow told the audience that she is not disabled and that she nev- er was. She went through sever- al meanings of disabled, using comparisons with cars and bombs. "When a car is disabled it means that the car is not work- ing as a car. That doesn't mean