JDCC maintains a comprehensive resource and referral service. We constantly update our records on the many Jewish Deaf organizations across the country. There has been many changes since the National Congress of Jewish Deaf was reorganized as Jewish Deaf Congress. A good number of organizations who were affiliated with NCJD/JDC have since ceased.
Temple Beth Or of the Deaf in New York, the Cleveland Hebrew Association of the Deaf in Ohio, Chabad House’s Hearing Impaired Program in Los Angeles, the Jewish Captioned Films in Baltimore, Maryland and Boston Hebrew Association of the Deaf are among the organizations no longer in existence.
In this issue we list the various services and programs available to Jewish Deaf people. We would also welcome your nomination of other worthwhile groups and causes for possible addition to this resource listing.
Looking For A Rabbi?
Many inquiries JDCC receives also has to do with availability of Rabbis for wedding or bar/bat mitzvahs. At this time there are two Deaf Rabbis within the Jewish Deaf Community:
Rabbi Rebecca L. Dubowe, Thousand Oaks, California
[Reform] E-Mail: [email protected].
Rabbi Fred Friedman, Baltimore, Maryland
[Orthodox] E-Mail: [email protected].
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Beth Torah of the Deaf
Betty Kasher
4714 Beach 47 Street, Brooklyn, NY 11224
[email protected]
Brooklyn Hebrew Society of the Deaf
Bernice Farr
1864 85th Street #6F, Brooklyn, NY 11214
bfarrl [email protected]
Congregation Bene Shalom-Hebrew Association of the Deaf
Nona Balk
4435 West Oakton Street, Skokie, IL 60076
[email protected]
www.beneshalom.org
Jewish Community Center Association of the Deaf – Florida
Alex Fleischman
4960 E Sabal Palm Bldg #7, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33319
[email protected]
Jewish Deaf Community Center
Sharon Ann Dror
507 Bethany Road, Burbank, CA 91504
[email protected]
www.jdcc.org
Jewish Deaf/Hearing Impaired Council of New Jersey
Sally Cohen
5 Terry Terrace, Livingston, NJ 07039
[email protected]
Jewish Deaf Society of Baltimore
Rabbi Fred Friedman
6108 Gist Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21215
[email protected]
Manhattan’s Young Adult Jewish Deaf
Marla Berkowitz
215 East 77th Street #4B, New York, NY 10021
[email protected]
New York Hebrew Association of the Deaf
Ben Finkin
8255 242 Street, Bellerose, NY 11426
[email protected]
Philadelphia Hebrew Association of the Deaf, Inc.
Robert Katz
8027 Castor Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19152
[email protected]
www.hometown.aol.com/katzbob
Temple Beth Solomon of the Deaf
Jan Seeley
5429 Lindley Avenue, Tarzana, CA 91356
[email protected]
www.tbsdeafjewish.org
Toronto Jewish Association of the Deaf
Eddy Wiesblatt
154 Henry St, Rockwood,Canada NOB-2K0
[email protected]
Washington Society of Jewish Deaf
Stephen Brenner
8400 Jeb Stuart Road, Potomac, MD 20854
[email protected]
COLLEGE CAMPUS:
Hillel at Gallaudet University
Jewish Campus Ministries
Gallaudet University – Ely Center
800 Florida Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002
[email protected]
www.hillel.org
Wolk Center at Rochester Institute of Technology
Ellie Rosenfield
National Technical Institute for the Deaf, 52 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5604
[email protected]
RABBINICAL PROGRAM:
Hebrew Seminary of the Deaf
Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer
4435 W Oakton St, Skokie, IL 60076
[email protected]
www.hebrewseminarydeaf.org
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Association of Jewish Parents of the Deaf
Sandy Feldman
1084 West Broadway, Woodmere, NY 11598
www.ou.org
Jewish Deaf Congress
Martin Florsheim
214-11 85th Avenue, Hollis Hills, NY 11427-1325
[email protected]
www.conf2oo3jdc.com
Jewish Deaf Resource Center
Marla Berkowitz
215 East 77th Street #4B, New York, NY 10021
[email protected]
www.jdrc.org
Jewish Deaf Singles Registry
Samuel Landau
PO. Box 2005, New York, NY 10159-2005
[email protected]
www.jdsr.org
Our Way/National Conference of Synagogue Youth
Rabbi Eliezar Lederfiend & Batya Jacob
11 Broadway, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10004
[email protected] or [email protected]
www.ou.org
SUMMER CAMP:
Camp Ramah in the Poconos – Kesher Program
Marla Berkowitz
The Pavilion, Suite 734, 261 Old York Road, Jenkintown, PA 19046
[email protected]
www.ramahpoconos.org
JUDAICA VIDEOTAPES:
Jewish Heritage and Holidays in ASL Videos
Cassia Margolis
629 Golf Lane, Indianapolis, IN 462604112
[email protected]
ONLINE DISCUSSION:
Jewish Sign Email Discussion Group
Rabbi David Kay
3220 La Costa Circle #204, Naples, FL 34105
[email protected]
Jewish Signers of Massachusettes
Dawn Skwersky Schakett
P.O. Box 1920, Brookline, MA 02446
[email protected]
[email protected]
YESHIVA:
Yeshivas Nefesh Dovid
The International Jewish High School for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Boys
Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Kakon
129 McGillivray Avenue, Toronto, Canada M5M 2Y7
[email protected]
www.nefeshdovid.com
OUR WAY’S LOCAL CHAPTERS:
ARIZONA – Phoenix
Shirley Grossman
3718 W. Mercer Lane, Phoenix, AZ 85029
[email protected]
CALIFORNIA – North Hollywood
Lori Moore
5521 Bluebell Avenue, North Hollywood, CA 91607
[email protected]
ILLINOIS – Skokie
Libby Chernoff
4620 Greenwood, Skokie, IL 60076
[email protected]
INDIANA – Carmel
Hillel Goldberg
2118 E. 111th Street, Carmel, IN 46032
[email protected]
MARYLAND – Baltimore
David Kastor
2505 Hal Circle, Baltimore, MD 21209
[email protected]
NEW JERSEY – Passaic
Judy Citer
411 Passaic Ave, Passaic, NJ 07055
[email protected]
NEW YORK – Long Island
Faigy Zaretsky
10 Chestnut Drive, Plainview, NY 11803
[email protected]
NEW YORK – Westchester
Mattice Aaronson
12 Elmridge St., Scarsdale, NY 10583
[email protected]
OHIO – Cleveland Heights
Debra Weiser
3619 Blanche Avenue, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
[email protected]
PENNSYLVANIA – Philadelphia
Avraham Globman
6038 Overbrook Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19131
VIRGINIA- Fairfax
Leah Caplan
3958 Persimmon Drive #103. Fairfax, VA 22031
[email protected]
CANADA – Montreal
Frank Duchoeny
928 Emerson, Chomedy, Quebec, Canada
H7W3Y4
[email protected]
CANADA – ONTARIO – Toronto
Joely Bernstein
167 Shelborne Avenue, Toronto, Canada M6B 2M9
[email protected]
ISRAEL – Jerusalem
Sara Seruya
31 Rechov Rozhin Apt. #21, Har Nof, Jerusalem, Israel
011-972-2-651-9956
