Ronnie Wachter
Buffalo Grove Countryside
To further explain how listening and hearing are different skills, Buffalo Grove Cantor Nancy Diamond Landsman showed the distinct ways the words are communicated in American Sign Language.
While leading services at Congregation Ahavat Olam, which serves the northwest suburbs, the rabbinical student believes that everyone is listening, though she knows some are not hearing.
During the High Holidays this season, after 34 years of singing with her voice, Landsman is learning how to sing with her hands simultaneously, in American Sign Language.
