Please consider sponsoring a Kiddush! It's a meaningful way to honor a Yahrzeit or commemorate a Simcha. Contact the PJC office.

On Sunday, November  15 , the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City will host The 2026 New York Jewish Book Festival.

The Festival celebrates literature focused on Jewish culture, heritage, and modern life in various genres for all ages. It features panel discussions between groups of authors and a moderator, with some individual book talks for featured authors. In addition, visitors can stock up on holiday gifts at the Hanukkah Bazaar.

 For more information click here.

Help us feed needy Westchester families this Thanksgiving!

In partnership with Family Services of Westchester, we are seeking volunteers to assemble a box of food for a family of 6-8 people. Empty boxes will be available at Pelham Jewish Center, along with other Pelham houses of worship.

Boxes and instructions on what to pack will be available in the PJC lobby. Members can also place orders through Manor Market, 914-636-2208. The cost is $79.

For details/questions, please contact PJC coordinator Matt Marcus

On the night of November 9–10, 1938, Nazi German leaders unleashed an anti-Jewish riot throughout Germany, Austria and the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia.

The violence was supposed to look like an unplanned outburst of popular anger against Jews. This event, which came to be called Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), marked a violent turning point in Nazi policy, shifting from legal and economic discrimination to open, physical terror that foreshadowed the Holocaust.

The Nazis burned more than 1,400 synagogues, vandalized thousands of Jewish-owned businesses, broke into Jewish people’s apartments and homes, and desecrated Jewish religious objects. They also humiliated, assaulted, and killed Jewish people. As part of Kristallnacht, the German police imprisoned about 26,000 Jewish men in concentration camps.

Listen to the memories of survivor Johanna Gerechter Neumann