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Marlee Matlin honoured with award

The Oscar winning actress has been honoured by the Ruderman Family Foundation and collected her award in Israel

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Marlee Matlin, the Oscar winning actress, has been honoured by the Ruderman Family Foundation, an American Jewish charity which advocates for people with disabilities.

The actress, who won an Oscar for her role in Children of a Lesser God, was given the award in Israel, where she has been travelling around, meeting people from across communities including many disability rights campaigners. She has also been delivering the message that those with disabilities should be offered the same opportunities as anyone else.
 
“Discrimination has to stop. Stereotyping has to stop. Judging and exclusion has to stop,” Matlin told the Jerusalem Post.

She added: “My entire career – a career many said was not possible for a woman who is deaf – was due to the vision I received from my parents, my Jewish parents,”

Matlin was presented with the Morton E. Ruderman Award in Inclusion which “recognizes an individual who has made an extraordinary contribution to the inclusion of people with disabilities in the Jewish world and the greater public."

It was the first time the award had been presented in Israel.

 

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