Well, you can check with JBI to get more information.  But I think I 
remember their Executive Director saying that Rabbis Leopold Duval and 
Michael Aaronson, both blind, founded JBI in the 1930's.
Harvey
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> Interesting, I wonder if they were blind when they became Rabbi's?  Then I
> wonder if they were Orthodox, Conservative or Reformed.
> Reading from the Torah would be a challenge, since it is hand written on
> parchment with out vowels.
> I have never seen a Braille Talmud, its 21 huge volumes in Hebrew print.
> Imagine that in Braille huge volumes in print, in Hebrew with out vowels.
> Imagine that in Braille!