Shelly is a member of the Shames JCC and a speaker with the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center in White Plains. "As a daughter of 2 survivors, I tell my parents' stories from a second-generation perspective. My goal is to increase awareness of the Holocaust and its lessons- to fight antisemitism and bigotry against […]

Join us and JCC Member, member of the Old Guard of Westchester, and member of the Americans United for Separation of Church and State to discuss and learn more about the recent efforts to erode the Constitutional principle of the separation of church and state.

Dr. Laura M. Chmielewski is an Associate Professor of History and Chair of the History and Museum Studies programs at the State University of New York at Purchase, where she teaches early American, Atlantic World, and public history. She received her Ph.D. from City University of New York. Laura is the author of The Spice […]

Patrick Raftery, WCHS Librarian, is considered one of the leading authorities on the The Cemeteries of Westchester County and the Bronx, and has authored 6 volumes on the subject. In this 60-minute illustrated slideshow he describes the different types of burial grounds, tombstones and funeral customs, while detailing some of Westchester’s many and fascinating “final […]