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Heart to Heart American Jewish Society For Distinguished Children Tel 718 778 0111 Email Heart to Heart 5780 2020 Eighteen years ago Elliot and Sheffy Jamel had a boy whom they named David. David was born with Down syndrome. Rabbi Eliezer Goldstock met the family at the time that David was born and through all of the years and all of the confusion the parents were willing to take all of the necessary risks and keep and accept their child not that it was ever in doubt that they would and raise him in the best possible environment and offer him the best possible opportunities to reach his full potential. When it came time for him to attend school the only options at that time in the orthodox Jewish community was a program made up exclusively of only boys who had Down syndrome or a bi lingual Yiddish and English speaking program also exclusively for special needs children or simply a public school special ed program.