[NFBJ] introduction

[Stewart Prost]

Greetings everyone,
Sarah, welcome to the list and our group.  Please feel free to post any
questions or information that you feel would be helpful to everyone on this
list.  I include any agency or organization that serves persons who are
blind and Jewish.  As I have said in the past, all meetings of this group
and for that matter any meetings of the National Federation of the Blindare
open to the public, whether anyone is a member of the NFB or not.  The
Tagline of the NFB is, "Live the Life you want".  A goal of this group is
to support people in participating in Jewish communal life as they wish.
To be a part of the community.
We had a good turn out for our regular meeting at our national convention
and for our first ever Shabbat Celebration.  I would like to build on our
success by holding several meetings on Zoom during the coming year.  If
anyone has ideas about topics or speakers, please let me know either by
posting them on this list, or contacting me directly.  My contact
information is below.

Stewart Prost, Chair, NFB in Judaism
Phone: 757-572-6891
Email: sprost82 at gmail.com

On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 3:17 PM Sarah LaRose via NFBJ <nfbj at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I have been a bit hesitant to step into this space for a while but felt
> that
> it might be a reasonable time for me to introduce myself due to the
> interest
> in Hebrew braille transcribing.
>
> I have been working with JBI since January and prior to starting there
> worked as a transcriber for several universities to provide texts for
> students studying Hebrew. I have taught biblical Hebrew at both
> undergraduate and graduate level at the Anderson University School of
> Theology near Indianapolis since 2015. In recent years I have also offered
> private instruction.
>
> I received my own Hebrew instruction from a sighted professor. We struggled
> through a very poorly transcribed copy of Lambdin's grammar which was done
> for JBI in the 1970s. Thankfully I also had a good Bible. At the time JAWS
> was not supportive of Hebrew, and I taught it to display the characters on
> my braille display.
>
> Nothing is perfect today but things are much better than they were! I
> always
> continue to hope for better! I am also happy to talk with anyone who wants
> to explore ways to work toward continued improvement in accessibility of
> texts and tools we use to read them.
>
> As Andre said in a recent post, I am not Jewish. I read a lot of Jewish
> theology and it is meaningful to me. I read a lot of Hebrew text in my own
> research process. I appreciate greatly what it means to all of you to have
> Hebrew in your hands. You have my dedication to give you good text.
>
>
>
> Sarah Blake LaRose, D.Min.
>
> sarah at sarahblakelarose.com <mailto:sarah at sarahblakelarose.com>
>
> http://www.sarahblakelarose.com
>
>
>
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*Stewart Prost*
Phone: 757-572-6891
Fax: 757-210-7504
Email: sprost82 at gmail.com