Dr. Beth Benedict gets Antonia Brancia Maxon Award

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Dr Beth Benedict. Photo by Chloe Canela

Dr. Beth Benedict, a professor in the Department of Communication Studies, was named the 2010 winner of the Antonia Brancia Maxon Award for EHDI Excellence on March 1.

A Special Shabbos in Norfolk, Virginia

Hamodia - The Daily Newspaper of Torah Jewry

On February 19-20, Norfolk, Virginia, hosted a very special Shabbaton for a very special organization. Our Way, an outreach organization for the Jewish deaf, is a division of the National Jewish Council for Disabilities and an agency of the Orthodox Union. Rabbi Eliezer Lederfeind is its devoted leader. Intrigued by the concept of an outreach Shabbaton for the deaf, I was determined to find out more about the organization and the people involved in it.

Gerendasy, CBS captioning engineer, dies

Adam Bernstein, The Washington Post
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Stanley Gerendasy Television Engineer

Stanley Gerendasy, 82, an electrical engineer who worked for CBS-TV and was part of a team of advisers who helped start Israel's first television network in the late 1960s, died of cardiac arrest March 5 at his home in Bethesda.

Deaf Holocaust Survivor Interview

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Doris Fedrid, a deaf Holocaust survivor who became blind later in life and currently resides in Seattle, was interviewed on her experiences. The 32-minute video can be seen at http://tinyurl.com/mqx7bk

Language in silence Deaf, Jewish mime onstage at Gallaudet

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
by Lisa Traiger
Arts Correspondent, Washington Jewish Week

It took a chance television program to spark Maxim Fomitchev's imagination, inspiring him in what has become his life's work. The Russian-born performer, a mime, who also writes and teaches, remembers as a 13-year-old watching a famous mime on television.

RIT/NTID Mourns Ellie Rosenfield

Rosenfield is remembered
as a compassionate advocate for students who are deaf or hard of hearing.

NTID News - March 8, 2010
Dr. Eleanor Rosenfield, Associate Dean for Student and Academic Services at Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf, died Sunday afternoon (March 7, 2010) in her Brighton home after a two-year battle with lymphoma. She was 57.

Deaf father of fallen soldier speaks at Manhattan fundraiser

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At a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser held at Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on March 9th for Israel Defense Forces (IDF) honoring Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen Gabi Ashenazi who was guest of honor, over $20 million was raised.