Howard Blas is a social worker and special educator who primarily
teaches students with special needs and circumstances in Jewish Studies
and for bar and bat mitzvah. He is Director of the Tikvah Program at
Camp Ramah in New England. Howard's work has appeared in publications
such as The Jerusalem Report, The Jerusalem Post, and The New York
Times. This article appears in issue 4 of Conversations, the journal of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals.
