Our Way for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing

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image Our Way offers opportunities to participate in the member’s local Jewish community by offering signed interpretation for synagogue services, interpreted classes, and a Megillat Esther Power Point Presentation for Purim. To download Perek 3 of the Migilat Ester PowerPoint Presentation click here.

Our Way/NCSY offers a Torah by email program weekly. The weekly Torah reading is discussed and a calendar of upcoming events is included. Please email us if you would like to be added to the recipients of this service at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Our Way/NCSY works closely with Jewish schools offering seminars, educational materials, and ongoing consultation to help schools include deaf and hard of hearing students into their educational programs. The Association of Jewish Deaf Parents provides information, guidance and support services for families through seminars, workshops and newsletters. As deaf young adults prepare to enter the workforce, Our Way offers a network of support services, such as computer classes in ASL, job placement, and job coaching in order to maximize their chances for long-term success.

Our Way/NCSY offers ASL interpreted trips to Israel so that the deaf and hard of hearing members can connect with their Jewish roots and learn about our heritage hands on while exploring the State of Israel.

The Jewish Deaf Singles Registry

JDSR was established in response to the growing assimilation rate in the Jewish deaf community. The registry provides a unique opportunity for Jewish singles to meet one another, a service not otherwise available to this community. Through JDSR, deaf and hard of hearing singles have the opportunity to meet and correspond with each other, with the goal of matrimony in mind.


For more information about Our Way or the Jewish Deaf Singles Registry, please contact Rabbi Eliezer Liederfeind, Batya Jacob or Moshe Lehmann.

Social Skills Training & Relationship Building

The Relationship Building Course (RBC) includes topics such as listening, initiating and continuing conversations, decision making, exercising self-control when angry, understanding our bodies, developing good hygiene, and recognizing and dealing with unsafe situations. These are just a few of the topics covered in the course and as the participants learn new skills, we continue to review the ones completed previously and build upon them.

RBC uses the Circles Program as a guide for teaching individuals to distinguish between various types of relationships. This curriculum allows an individual to decide who is a close friend or family member, who is simply an acquaintance, who to share personal information with, who we can appropriately touch and who we can trust.

Each week practice sheets are sent home with assignments to be completed for the next class. This is done in order to emphasize the importance of working on social skills at times and in various settings. We firmly believe that while we can introduce certain principles, the most important work takes place at home.

Each semester meets once weekly for 10 weeks and is taught by trained individuals ranging from graduate students in related fields to professional social workers and psychologists.

There is a Fall and a Spring session of RBC in New York and New Jersey, largely based on the academic calendar.

Price:$190 for one semester
$360 if you sign up for two semesters
Current locations: Brooklyn (2 groups), Queens, Teaneck, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

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