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Scottish aid

August 13, 2009

A “rabbi on the road” venture by the Northern Regional Chaplaincy Board is among outreach schemes being funded by the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities.

Up to £3,000 over two years will go to the chaplaincy project, bringing Jewish life to the more remote Scottish areas. Up to £2,000 will aid Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation’s cheder resources partnership with the Dundee and Aberdeen communities.

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This software could help our son to talk

By Stephanie Brickman, August 6, 2009

Dr Ehud Reiter was watching his two-year-old son Moshe play with a child six months younger when he realised that something was not quite right.

“The other boy, Sidney, was talking much more than Moshe. Up till then, Moshe had always been ahead of him. So we knew there was something really wrong.”

Reiter sighs and pauses as he recalls that terrible moment in 2000. It was a year later that he and his wife Ann finally received the dreadful news that Moshe had full-blown autism and would need care for the rest of his life.

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