Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Jewish kids with special needs go to St. Petersburg

JTA NEWS: At his first Passover seder, the autistic boy thought the jagged edge of a broken piece of matzah was a freshly cut piece of wood, and that it would embed splinters in his skin. He was afraid, so Misha, then 12, started yelling, disrupting the seder. When his mother tried to remove him, Misha�s screams got louder. Finally, she dragged him home.