Our Way’s first-time ever exclusive twelve-day-trip to Israel for single, divorced, widowed, and married deaf adults ages 21-and-up takes place from August 13-24.

Participants will have an American Sign Language interpreter, interactions with deaf clubs throughout Israel, tours, hotel accommodations, and most meals. Our Way is a division of the Orthodox Union’s National Jewish Council for Disabilities (NJCD). Our Way chapters provide activities for members of the Jewish community who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.  

Jewish Deaf Singles Registry is a program of Our Way which was established in response to the growing assimilation rate in the Jewish deaf community. The registry helps Jewish deaf or hard of hearing singles to meet one another, a service not otherwise available to the community, and has already been the source of almost 20 marriages between Jewish deaf people. Samuel and Rachelle Landau, a deaf couple from Elizabeth, NJ, who are the coordinators of JDSR, and will lead Our Way’s trip to Israel.  

Philip Weiss, a 67-year old Detroit deaf native now living in Las Vegas, is participating in his first trip to Israel. Weiss is mourning the recent death of his wife Barbara. In Barbara’s memory, Mr. Weiss has made a donation to help cover the expenses of other participants. The group will be planting a circle of trees in Jerusalem in Mrs. Weiss’s honor. Besides Mr. Weiss, participants will come from Chicago, San Francisco, Baltimore, St. Louis, Miami, New York, and New Jersey.  

For more information about Our Way’s activities, go to njcd.org/ourway or contact Batya Jacobs, Program Director, at [email protected] or 212-613-8127 (V).