Photo: Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin told 350 women gathered for the Main Event that her parents passed along Jewish values that helped her overcome obstacles. Photo courtesy Kim Mejer/Kimera Photography
Marlee Matlin tells how she overcame deafness to achieve success
by Debra Rubin
NJJN Bureau Chief
May 27, 2016
New Jersey Jewish News
Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin said that key people in her life instilled in her the confidence to believe she could accomplish anything, despite her deafness.
When the doctors urged her parents to send her away to a school for the deaf, she said, they refused, asking,
