Programmatic Year in Review -2017-2018

Thanks to the support of our entire community we held a record-breaking 87 programs between July 2017 and July 2018.  We could not have done this without the incredible partnership with our many committed leaders and volunteers.  

Programmatic Year in Review
2017-2018

1. July 31st – AJC Live Radio Show – “Who is a Jew in Israel,” featuring Dr. Steve Bayme and Rabbi Julie Schonfeld
2. July 31st – Tisha B’Av program, featuring AJC CEO David Harris at Young Israel of Scarsdale
3. August 7th – AJC Live Radio Show – “Meet Farooq Kathwari, the Co-Chair of AJC’s Muslim Jewish Advisory Council.”
4. August 21st – AJC Live Radio Show – “Exclusive Interview with Ben Ferencz, the Last Surviving Nuremberg Prosecutor”
5. September 4th – AJC Live Radio Show – “The Latino Jewish Leadership Council”
6. September 13th – Diplomatic Outreach Training #1, featuring AJC CEO David Harris
7. September 17th – Board of Directors Retreat at Westchester Reform Temple, Scarsdale.
8. September 17th-September 27th – UN General Assembly Diplomatic Marathon (Marshall Society/NLC)
9. September 18th – AJC Live Radio Show – “Introducing Richard Cohen as President of AJC Westchester/Fairfield”
10. September 18th- AJC Diplomatic Marathon luncheon with Mexican Foreign Minister (NYC)
11. September 18th – AJC Diplomatic Marathon Kickoff Event (NYC)
12. September 19th – AJC Diplomatic Marathon Roundtable Luncheon (NYC)
13. September 27th – Post-AJC Diplomatic Marathon Debrief (NYC)
14. October 2nd – AJC Live Radio Show – “AJC Central Europe,”featuring Agnieszka Markiewicz, Director of AJC Central Europe
15. October 2nd– Diplomatic Outreach Training Session #2 – Special Team Leader Training and EQ Training
16. October 3rd – LFT (Leaders for Tomorrow) parents meeting with AJC CEO David Harris at Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester
17. October 11th - “Our Neighbors as Ourselves” phone briefing on “DACA – The AJC and Latino Perspectives” featuring Oscar Chacon, Board Member of the Latino Jewish Leadership Council.
18. October 15th – Sacred Spaces program at Calvary Baptist Church in White Plains
19. October 16th – AJC Live Radio Show – “Exclusive Interview with Rabbi David Saperstein”
20. October 18th – An Evening with Rabbi David Saperstein at Larchmont Temple
21. October 22nd – Inaugural LFT (Leaders for Tomorrow) program – “Our Jewish Journeys”
22. October 25th- Shared Roots, Divergent Paths program with Iona College - “500 Years since the Protestant Reformation”
23. October 30th – AJC Live – “Thanksgiving Diversity Breakfast Honorees”
24. November 1st - “Finding Common Ground: Muslim-Jewish Relations,” featuring Professor Mehnaz Afridi at Bet Torah in Mt. Kisco
25. November 2nd – “100th Anniversary of Balfour Declaration,” Dr. Steve Bayme at Temple Beth El in Stamford
26. November 6th - AJC Live – “Learned Hand Honorees”
27. November 8th - Diplomatic Outreach Training Session #3 – Sweden role play session
28. November 10th – Project Interchange Alumni Shabbat Dinner at the Scarsdale home of Jane and David Bloomgarden.
29. November 12th – LFT Program – “The Journey of the Jewish People.”
30. November 16th – Annual Thanksgiving Diversity Breakfast, “Healing Our Fractured Society” at Manhattanville College, Purchase
31. November 20th – AJC Live – “Rabbi Shai Held on Black-Jewish Relations”
32. November 20th – NLC Dinner at the home of David and Faith Pedowitz, featuring David Harris
33. November 20th – Community program featuring AJC CEO David Harris, “David Harris Reflects on Israel Then and Now” at Temple Shaaray Tefila in Bedford
34. November 29th – Learned Hand Dinner, honoring Stanley A. Twardy, Jr. and William P. Harrington
35. December 4th – AJC Live – “Building Muslim-Jewish Relations – AJC and SOSS,” featuring Sheryl Olitzky, the founder of SOSS
36. December 5th – “The Post-ISIS Void: The New Realities of Today’s Middle East,” featuring Ambassador Robert Ford at Temple Sholom in Greenwich
37. December 7th – AJC Salon - “Black-Jewish Relations” with Rabbi Shai Held
38. December 10th – LFT Program – “Modern History of Israel (pre-state)”
39. December 13th – Regional Board Chanukah Party and Presentation of “Light of Chanukah Award”
40. December 18th - AJC Live – “Bringing Light to Others on Chanukah – AJC and AFYA,” featuring Danielle Butin, Director of AFYA
41. January 1st – AJC Live – “Celebrating Three Years of the AJC Live Radio Show,” Featuring an exclusive interview with Judge Sam Fredman
42. January 7th – LFT Program – “Diplomacy and Advocacy,” featuring AJC CEO David Harris
43. January 12th - MLK Shabbat Experience at Temple Shaaray Tefila, featuring Neshama Carlebach
44. January 15th – AJC Live – “Facing Racism”
45. January 15th – MLK Day of Service (co-sponsored with J-Teen and the Afya Foundation)
46. January 25th – AJC Salon featuring Becky Voorwinde, “Will My Grandkids be Jewish? Will Theirs?”
47. January 28th – Multi-Faith Prayer Service, “Facing Racism Together: Bearing Witness and Bringing Hope” at Mt. Hope AME Zion Church in White Plains
48. January 29th- AJC Live – “International Holocaust Remembrance Day,” featuring with Judge Thomas Buergenthal
49. January 29th-30th – NLC Fly-In to Washington, D.C.
50. January 30th - UN Holocaust Commemoration Program
51. February 1st – Town Hall meeting with Congressman Jim Himes at Temple Beth El, Stamford.
52. February 5th- AJC Live - “JBS and Issues Facing the Jewish Community,” featuring Rabbi Mark Golub
53. February 5th - “From the Front Lines” - Community program with AJC CEO David Harris at Temple Sholom, Greenwich
54. February 11th – LFT Program – “Jewish Communities Around the World”
55. February 15th – Parlor Meeting with Dr. Julie Decroix, Associate Director of AJC Europe
56. February 15th – Regional Board Meeting, featuring Dr. Julie Decroix, Associate Director of AJC Europe at Young Israel of Scarsdale
57. February 19th – AJC Live – “Interview of Francine Klagsbrun,” including a discussion of her new book “Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel.”
58. March 4th – LFT Program – “Israeli Society Today”
59. March 5th – AJC Live – “Film Festival Preview Show”
60. March 7th- Diplomatic and Interfaith Model Seder at B’nai Jeshurun in NYC
61. March 12th –"We Are All Immigrants” Passover Seder at Beth El Synagogue Center in White Plains

March 13th- March 29th – 2018 Westchester Jewish Film Festival (At Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville)

62. March 15th - An Israeli Love Story, featuring Q&A with Dr. Steven Bayme
63. Sunday, March 18th – Across the Water, featuring Q&A with Danish Consul Mikkel Hagen Hess

March 21st – 1945, featuring Q&A with Hungarian Consul General Ferenc Kumin and Arie Bucheister, Chief of Staff at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (cancelled due to snow – seeking to reschedule in Fall 2018).

64. March 27th - Persona Non-Grata, featuring Q&A with Director Cellin Gluck and AJC Asia-Pacific Institute Director Shira Loewenberg
65. March 28th - Strangers at Home, featuring Q&A with AJC CEO David Harris
66. March 19th- AJC Live Radio Show – “Introducing Westchester County Executive George Latimer”
67. April 2nd – AJC Live Radio Show - “The Fox Hunt with Mohammed Al Samawi and Daniel Pincus”
68. April 9th – “The Fox Hunt: A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America” with Mohammed Al-Samawi and Daniel Pincus (at Shaarei Tikvah)
69. April 15th – “Westchester Celebrates Israel at 70!” at Solomon Schechter School of Westchester in Hartsdale
70. April 16th – AJC Live Radio Show – “Israel at 70”
71. April 19th – AJC Salon – “The Disappearing Center featuring Gary Rosenblatt”
72. April 22nd – LFT Program – “What to Expect on Campus and How to Respond”
73. April 23rd – Shared Roots, Divergent Paths, “Border Control vs. Love the Stranger” at Iona College.
74. April 26th – Regional Board Meeting (at Bet Torah) featuring Jason Isaacson
75. April 26th – Moving the American Embassy: A Community Conversation About the U.S. Role in the Arab-Israeli Conflict featuring Jason Isaacson. At Bet Torah.
76. April 30th – AJC Live Radio Show – “Taste of the Global Forum”
77. May 6th – Sacred Spaces hosted by Yonkers Baha’i Community
78. May 7th – AJC Live Radio Show – “L’Dor v’Dor Gala honoring Steve Lowey”
79. May 10th - Annual Gala honoring Steven Lowey at Ritz Carlton Westchester, featuring AJC’s Campus Work (Seffi Kogen and the LFT students)
80. May 14th – LFT Parents Post-Program Reception
81. June 3rd – AJC Live Radio Show – “AJC CEO David Harris on the Global Forum in Israel”
82. June 4th-8th – Westchester/Fairfield pre-Global Forum Mission in Israel
83. June 8th-10th – Pre-Global Forum Shabbaton (Jerusalem)
84. June 10th-13th – Global Forum 2018 (in Jerusalem)
85. June 18th – AJC Live Radio Show – “Impressions of the Global Forum in Israel”
86. June 21st – Multifaith Service – “Faith and the LGBTQ+ Community” At Temple Israel Center of White Plains.
87. June 25th – Regional Annual Meeting featuring Almog Elijis, Spokesperson for Israeli Consulate in New York, “Israel in the NY Media: A View from the Front Lines of Israel’s PR Battle.”.