VCJC urges you to help support Israel following the terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas. We have set up a webpage at https://vcjc-israel.brizy.site/ where you can get some more information. That page will direct you to the UJA Federation’s Israel Emergency Fund page where you can make a donation directly to the fund. You can go directly to the UJA page from here, if you prefer. There are many ways in which we can support Israel in this hour of need,…
On Sunday, April 15, the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center held its annual Holocaust Memorial Observation. The program consisted of the lighting of six candles, one for each million of the six million Jewish martyrs. The VCJC holds an annual Holocaust High School Essay Contest. The winners, all from the Bronx High School of Science, were Janet Lee (first place), William Mesnick (second place), and Julia Haberfield (third place). William Mesnick read his second-place winning essay. The first and third place winners…
Next in the VCJC free lecture series on Sunday, March 11th: Paul Weinberg presents “Antisemitism Then and Now” – dealing with all the categories, types and forms of Antisemitism, from its earliest beginnings to the present. The presentation follows the creation of Antisemitism – from the hateful allusions to Jews in the New Testament (“Christ Killer,” et al), to the Church’s attack on the Jews in the Middle Ages; the racial model that produced the Holocaust; Islamic Jew hatred from…