Archive: April 2023

The Jewish Refugees Whose Intelligence Helped Win the War: Camp Ritchie and its Graduates

Posted on April 17, 2023

April 17, 2023 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Professor David Frey, Professor of History and Founding Director of the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, West Point, joins the Jewish Studies Program at Purchase College for the annual Holocaust Remembrance Lecture. Professor Frey will discuss the remarkable story of the World War II Military Intelligence Training Center (MITC) at […]

TBA – Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Service

Posted on April 17, 2023

April 17, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Our powerful and moving Yom HaShoah service will feature a presentation (online) by Gabriella Major.  Ms. Major was born in Debrecen, Hungary during World War II. She was deported with her mother and grandmother by cattle cars to a concentration camp near Vienna after many months of living in a ghetto. Eventually, the Russians liberated […]

Yom HaShoah

Posted on April 18, 2023

April 18, 2023 @ All Day –

Yom Hashoah Westchester Commemoration

Posted on April 18, 2023

April 18, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Please click on the link to view the flyer. yom hashoah 2023

JCCMW – Yom Hasho’ah Screening of “Pizza in Auschwitz”

Posted on April 18, 2023

April 18, 2023 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – To commemorate Yom Hasho’ah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, JCC Mid-Westchester will be hosting a film screening of Pizza in Auschwitz by Moshe Zimmerman and Osnat Trabelsi. Admission is free, but registration is required.

WCHJ – They Lived in the Shadow of the Shoah

Posted on April 18, 2023

April 18, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Please join us on Tuesday, April 18, at 7 PM EST on Zoom for a screening of the documentary film “They Lived in the Shadow of the Shoah” by Rabbi Suzanne Carter, who will be available for comments and Q&A. You can read more about the film by visiting https://wchj.org/ViewersComments.pdf.  This program is presented by […]

Temple Beth Abraham Adult Education Committee presents: Growing Up Jewish in Egypt with Edmond Haddad, OD

Posted on April 19, 2023

April 19, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Dr. Edmond Haddad experienced the 20th century exodus from Egypt firsthand and describes how Jews were treated by the Arab population. Dr. Edmond Haddad is an Optometrist with a practice in NYC. He fled Cairo with his family in 1965 at the age of 15 to escape religious persecution. Dr. Haddad is the father and […]

Shames JCC – IYUN

Posted on April 20, 2023

April 20, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm – IYUN is a multi-week conversational group for inter-faith couples who are people hungry to explore the major questions of a life well-lived — all through the prism of Jewish tradition. Together we’ll explore spiritual practices for real life.

Pelham Jewish Center – Can we Talk About Israel?

Posted on April 20, 2023

April 20, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Can we talk about Israel? with Daniel Sokatch, CEO, The New Israel Fund Zoom Join us for a series of conversations with international journalists, scholar, and experts in the current status of Israel/US relations. Sessions will run for one hour, in person at the Pelham Jewish Center or via zoom.

UJA and Westchester Jewish Council Westchester Legislative Breakfast

Posted on April 21, 2023

April 21, 2023 @ 7:45 am – 9:30 am – We’re proud to bring together the Westchester Jewish community and our local, county, state and federal elected officials. Speakers to be announced. We hope you will join us. Light Kosher breakfast served. No cost to attend.