As I’ve been thinking about what I want to write this week, one truth keeps hitting me: people usually mean well. They really do. But meaning well isn’t the same as getting it right. And in the world of disability, that gap between intention and understanding? That’s exactly where cultural competency lives-or doesn’t.

Every February for the last few years I’ve said I’m done writing about JDAIM but I can’t seem to not address it.

As we celebrated the International Day of Persons with Disabilities last week—on December 3rd—I’ve been thinking a lot about what this day represents, and about the awareness we still need to cultivate.

a ger toshav was someone who lived among the Jewish people, followed their moral laws, and was protected and respected, but was not fully part of the covenantal community. They lived with the people, but not entirely of them—inside and outside at the same time, present and accepted but still set apart.