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Fund Helps Disabled Girls Attend Day School
Nov. 21, 2002 by Sharon Schatz Rosenthal, Education Writer  With the help of Etta Israel's Ner Shoshana Fund, six developmentally disabled girls are now attending Bais Yaakov, an Orthodox girls' high school in Los Angeles. [Bais Yaakov] is serving as the first host school to this new program, which was named for Shoshana Greenbaum, a New York and Los Angeles day school teacher who was a victim in the Sbarro pizza restaurant bombing in Jerusalem on Aug. 9, 2001.
Due to their limitations, the teens had no choice but to attend public school, as there was no day school program that could accommodate them. "The [girls'] parents are in tears every day," said Dr. Michael Held, the director of the Etta Israel Center. "They can't believe [the girls] are in a Jewish day school." In addition to regular academic subjects, the students are offered classes like art therapy, music therapy, dance and physical education. Students in the regular Bais Yaakov program have been reaching out to their new friends by visiting them in their new classroom and Etta Israel hopes to create other Ner Shoshana programs at other host schools. "It's very inspiring," Held said. "Instead of defensive isolation in a yellow school bus, these students get to interact with other kids."
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