In partnership with Gateways, Access to Jewish Education, we hosted Innovation 4 Inclusion, celebrating the make-a-thon completed by eight of the Boston Jewish Day Schools. Throughout the academic yea

Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade and Avicii have all taken their own lives recently and suicide rates are on the rise across the country. The Foundation produced this video for our social media platforms

Johnson is sharing his story because he wants us all to pay attention when someone is in pain and needs help.

Such honesty brings us another step closer to ending the stigmas behind mental health.

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

Half a century ago, Sesame Street was established with the sole mission “to help kids grow smarter, stronger, and kinder.” Since then this colorful program has been a staple of many a childhood in

Foundation Honors Actress Marlee Matlin with Morton E. Ruderman Award in Inclusion
 
In 1987, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Marlee Matlin the Oscar for Best Actress in

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

Ah, the holiday season is upon us. It’s a time of celebration, but also of reflection and as we reflect over the year, we at the Ruderman Family Foundation wanted to highlight and share one of our f

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 advertising and modelling industries have long been under fire for unrealistic portrayals of the human form—particularly of women, though men have not been immune either. Seeing countless depict

Imagine having a dream- something that is terrestrially possible and already being done by others with regular frequency. Imagine those individuals already living your dream may not be as passionate

Even if you are not tuned into disability inclusion, you’d have to have been a hermit not to notice the increased focus on people with disabilities (PWD) in this election. Both the Democratic and th

THE RUDERMAN WHITE PAPER:
VOTING ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

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We are less than two months away from the 2016

Those in the disability realm are in a unique situation- arguably a challenge- when it comes to highlighting their cause or issue: how to reach and influence the general public in today’s hyper

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

Only a week ago, the Paralympics were in serious trouble. As we wrote in our last blog, they’d sold barely 12% of the available tickets—just about 290,000. That was only a fraction of the 2012 Par

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

Whether or not you actually watch the Olympics and Paralympics, if you’ve at all been on social media in the last two weeks, you probably haven’t missed this video:

Produced by UK’s Channel 4,

WARNING: This post contains SPOILERS …
Smiling or crying. I (nearly) guarantee these are the only two actions you will be capable of- sometimes at the same time- when you watch the newly relea

Captain America, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, Black Panther, Superman, and the list goes on and on, and we’re still talking only about the superheroes that were featured in big-budget movies this year al

Disclaimer: This piece contains mild spoilers from the film.
 
So, I watched Me Before You. There are so many things that are bad about this movie that I don’t even know where to start. There i

Foundation horrified as latest blockbuster suggests those with disabilities should consider suicide; organization aims to meet with Hollywood studio heads and casting directors to discuss the problema

Watch before scrolling. SPOILER ANALYSIS/COMMENTARY BELOW.

 
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Wow… Perhaps I’m not the most sophisticated film connoisse

A little over a week ago, 50 Cent, aka Curtis Jackson III, posted a video of himself bullying a young man at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. He kept following the man—Andrew Farr

Photo credit: Justin Ellis
Last week at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York, I went to see a film called Margarita, With a Straw. This film, among many others throughout the city, was s

The Ruderman Family Foundation released the first Ruderman White Paper today – a groundbreaking, comprehensive study on the topic of police-related violence and media coverage in cases involving a p

By Shai Franklin

With Presidential primaries looming, so much international unrest and a global climate agreement in the works, last week’s gathering of two-dozen top media and political figu