events
Past events
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October 19, 2015: Behind Enemy Lines
Hear first hand the story of a Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany! An Evening with Marthe Cohn Registration and ticket purchase will open shortly. Please check back soon. Marthe Cohn was born into an Jewish family as one of seven children living just across the German border in … Continued
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August 12, 2015, Screening of “Nicky’s Family”
(free reservations here) A remarkable documentary film telling the story of a true hero, Sir Nicholas Winton, who rescued 669 children from the Nazis in the Czech Kindertransport. Sir Winton passed away on July 1, 2015, at the age of 106. Film will be screened Wednesday, August 12, 2015 At the Bergen County … Continued
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May 31, 2015, Teen Fellowship Awards Lunchen
Sunday, 11:45 at the Terrace in Paramus, NJ. The participating teens in the Eternal Flame Teen Fellowship program (See here) will be recognized and honored for their achievement at a wonderful luncheon along with the other teens of the Valley Chabad Teen Leadership Initiative. Details and reservations to open soon. Please … Continued
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May 14th , 2015: The Mitzvah Project
A one-person play and lecture that examines one of the most astonishing stories of the Second World War. Thursday at the Hilton Woofcliff Lake. Through a combination theater, history lesson and conversation in which actor, playwright and child of survivor, Roger Grunwald, will explore one of the most shocking … Continued
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April 24 – 27, 2015: Washington DC Holocaust Meuseum Weekend Trip
Participants of the Teen Fellowship will take a trip to Washington DC to get an up close look at the atrocities of the Holocaust. The teens will also be treated to a tour of the memorials and museums and the capital building. Shabbat will be spent in a beautiful DuPont … Continued
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April 19, 2015: Teen Fellowship Session 3: Mark it with a Stone.
Our first teen fellowhip session will be gin with a presentation by Sandy Rubenstein. Sandy is a teacher at the Horace Mann School in New York. Teaching is her passion, what she loves to do and has been doing for over thirty years. She is also the child of Holocaust … Continued
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March 29, 2015: Teen Fellowship Session 2: Firsthand account by Bella Miller
Bella Miller still remembers the day the tattoo was engraved on her arm. She was inside a barracks at Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi death camp in Poland, weeks after she arrived with her family in August 1944. Another inmate dipped a long needle in ink and punched the number into … Continued
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March 22, 2015: Holocaust Survivor, author, to speak Sunday at launch of 2015 Teen Fellowship
Dr. Abraham Bichler of Fair Lawn, a retired Hebrew professor at Fairly Dickenson University, will share with the Eternal Flame fellowship teens his family’s story of survival in the Holocaust. As a boy, Bichler and his family were taken from their home in Poland and shipped to the frozen Russian … Continued
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October 27, 2014: Anne Frank’s step sister and Holocaust survivor, Eva Schloss, to share her story in rare US appearance.
Holocaust survivor and stepsister of Anne Frank, Eva Schloss joins us at the on Monday evening, October 27, 2014 to share the story of the horrific experiences of her past. With two books published and having spoken to numerous crowds, Eva keeps the legacy of Anne Frank alive and seeks to spread … Continued
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September 28, 2014: Aftermath film screening
Join us to watch this incredible film about a Polish man who returns home after the death of his father and unearths a secret about the now-deceased Jewish residents of his village. “That this film could be made in Poland with a Polish cast and crew has turned “Aftermath” into a … Continued