Sukkot Celebration at the Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival
Join us at the Chappaqua Book Festival on the first day of Sukkot. Shames JCC will have a pop-up Sukkah reading hut and bookmark-making station.
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Sephardic Sukkot Celebration
Come celebrate the joyful festival of Sukkot with a performance by A Palo Seco Flamenco! This production features live dance and music in a vibrant and entertaining evening full of color, rhythm, and energy. Explanations about Sukkot traditions in Spain will be mixed with high-energy performance pieces, as well as plenty of audience participation. Audience […]
JCC Book Club: “A Likely Story”
Join us to discuss a book called "a literary page-turner" and "compulsively readable" with the author herself! In A Likely Story, the only child of a famous American novelist discovers a shocking family secret that upends everything she thought she knew about her parents, her gilded childhood, and her own stalled writing career. Debut novelist Leigh McMullan […]
Tragedy in the East River: The Passenger Steamboat the General Slocum
The General Slocum was a side-wheel passenger boat taking over 1,300 people, mainly from the Lower East Side, on a day's outing to Oyster Bay on June 15, 1904. Soon after departing from Lower Manhattan, tragedy struck the ship and over 1,000 people perished. It was the greatest loss of life from a single event […]
PJ Library Day on The Shames JCC’s New Playground
The JCC’s new eco-friendly playground is a great place to celebrate PJ Library Day. PJ Library leaders, along with Shames JCC staff, will be on hand to share books and JCC guest passes while your children make new friends, move their bodies, engage in imaginary play, and more! Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on […]
