A Faith’s Embrace Leaves No One on the Outside
By JOSEPH BERGER
Published NY Times, Westchester Section: August 5, 2007

JEWISH mothers fret about that spotlight moment when their child is called to the Torah for the first time, but few have the sorts of worries that Jackie Saril had before her daughter, Jami, was bat mitzvahed.

Jami is autistic, which means she lacks a whole quiver of intellectual and social skills and might create some awkward moments by whining or jumping up and down on the bimah, the stage where the Torah is read...
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