In partnership with Here.Now, a Jewish teen mental-health initiative through Jewish Board, we bring you the 10 tips for summer camps that wish to prioritize mental health in their fun, exciting enviro

It’s time to expand our diversity conversation to include people of all races, genders, AND abilities. Let’s make 2018 the year that we get diversity right!  
#Disability Is Diversity

The Ruderman Family Foundation, denounces the casting of Joaquin Phoenix to play John Callahan, a cartoonist with a disability, in the new Gus Van Sant film, ‘Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Fo

This blog was contributed by Howard Blas, Director of National Ramah Tikvah Network.
Dana Mathewson hits lightning serves and ground strokes and races to return seemingly out of reach tennis balls on

Since releasing our Ruderman White Paper on Media Coverage of Law Enforcement Use of Force and Disability, we at the Foundation find ourselves speaking out sadly frequently on the matter. The most

Ruderman Family Foundation calls on Hollywood to end the disturbing practice of casting actors without visible disabilities to play characters with disabilities
The Ruderman Family Foundation, a natio

The Ruderman TV Challenge was designed to continue our work in Hollywood and advocate for greater inclusion of performers with disabilities. At a time when the discussion around the need for greater

 
Our New Study Reveals Self-Driving Cars Could Open 2 Million Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities
 

 
Introduction
Self-driving cars have almost become a staple of

On December 5, there was yet another shooting of an unarmed, black, and mentally ill man at the hands of law enforcement, this time in Arkansas. As of the time of this writing, Gary Johnson is hospita

The Ruderman Family Foundation has announced the winners of its fifth annual Ruderman Prize in Inclusion, five grants totaling $250,000 awarded to companies and organizations that operate innovative

The 2016 Presidential Election is finally over! After nearly 600 days of campaigning, this unprecedented contest for the highest office in the land will now be laid to rest in the annals of American h

Last month we published the Ruderman White Paper on Voting Accessibility for People with Disabilities. I co-authored it with Norman Ornstein after an intensive period of qualitative research where we

THE RUDERMAN WHITE PAPER:
VOTING ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

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We are less than two months away from the 2016

Football. It’s America’s obsession and most of us are not ashamed to acknowledge that. For 21 glorious Sundays throughout the fall and winter our nation is glued to television sets a

In all the hype surrounding two of the largest international sporting events in the world—the Olympics and the Paralympics—we’ve heard about grueling training routines, deep backstories, scandal

With Brazil facing financial difficulty in the wake of the Olympic Games, the Paralympics were given the proverbial short straw. After the successive increase in popularity in the Beijing 2008 and Lon

Seven exceptional students from Boston-area Orthodox Jewish schools received the Rose Ruderman Scholarship Award for their outstanding scholarship as well as their reliability, commitment to community

by: Sharon Shapiro
On Tuesday evening our foundation honored one student from the upper grades of each of the seven Boston Orthodox schools for giving back to their community. The Rose Ruderman Schola

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursu

A flourishing community needs roots to allow it to grow and thrive. This is why we have chosen a tree- a strong and steady base that will bear fruit in the future.

Friends,
Yedidia Z. Stern, Vice-president of the Israel Democracy Institute and a member of the Plesner Committee for Equality in National Service, and I co-authored this recent Jerusalem Post Op-Ed s

By Guest Blogger Ralph Schwartz, Director of Special Needs Programming, Camp Ramah in Wisconsin
Several months ago, the Tikvah program at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin began a weekly video chat check-in nam

Morton E. Ruderman, of Boca Raton, FL, who co-founded global health care technology firm MEDITECH, and who later became one of the Jewish community’s leading philanthropists, passed away Wednesday a

By Guest Blogger Roberta Fahn Schoffman, CEO MindSet Strategic Consulting.
Just two days after Rosh Hashana a wonderful outdoor evening at the home of Jay and Shira Ruderman in Rehovot was held to hon

Something surprising emerged from a newly released Gallup poll of American Jews and Muslims.  The two groups happen to share a number of common values, among them the importance of religious pluralis

By Jay Ruderman
For me, my brother and sister and our cousins, the person who taught us to be a mensch was my bubbe (grandmother). This modest woman from Malden, Massachusetts played a huge role in ou