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Dov Marcus smiles after wrapping the leather straps of tefillin to pray with his uncle, Chaim Orlan, in Teaneck, N.J., on Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. Dov Marcus talks to his mother, Debbie Marcus, at their dining table near the branched candelabra called a menorah, in Teaneck, N.J., on Friday, Dec. 20, 2024.
“They just have to have the willingness to be the church that sees the image of God in every child and every adult,” said Blosser, who now serves two small West Virginia congregations that have been supportive of his family’s needs. Bunk, who has bipolar disorder and lives in Virginia, said she especially likes seeing people with disabilities worshipping with the full congregation, rather than separately.
“The idea isn’t to give him his one opportunity a year to be called up to the Torah for the blessings,” said Stephen Glicksman, a synagogue member and director of innovation at Makor Care & Services Network which supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families and is co-sponsoring the service.
His parents became aware of his sensitivity to sounds the first time they took him to synagogue. During the Jewish holiday of Purim, he became overwhelmed by the loud congregation. It would also happen when he heard the shofar — a ceremonial ram’s horn, sounded on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. “To see Dovie light up the room, to be included and respected the way he is and honored — that’s the highlight of the Hanukkah holiday.”David Mandell, psychiatry professor and director of the Penn Center for Mental Health at the University of Pennsylvania, urged leaders to make their houses of worship hospitable from the moment members enter the door, considering such things as how greeters are trained. The message that all are welcome, he said, should also come from the pulpit.
In Wisconsin, Kathleen Krueger said attending church with her daughter, who has cognitive disabilities and autism, was at times very challenging, especially when she was younger. When her daughter had an outburst, people would stare, she said.
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