HHREC Promotes Education Program to Combat Rising Hate Crimes in Schools
Press Release Contact: Millie Jasper Executive Director, Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center mjasper@hhrecny.org Tel 914.696.0738 HHREC Promotes Education to Combat Rising Hate Crimes in Schools February 3, 2023– Incidents of hate crimes continue to cause concern in cities and towns across the country, and a rising number of these have been occurring in the greater…
Read MoreMedia Covers HHREC Executive Director Appearance with Westchester County Executive on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
HHREC Executive Director Millie Jasper shared remarks during a press conference at the Westchester County Office in White Plains on Friday, January 27th in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Watch the recording here and read the media coverage of this event in Shoreline Publishing, The River Journal, and MidHudson News. There was also coverage…
Read MoreHolocaust & Human Rights Education Center Supper Seminar Series Story in Jewish Link Publication
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Read MoreHolocaust & Human Rights Education Center Offers Annual Middle School Institute Program for Area Students
The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center hosted their 8th Annual Human Rights Institute for Middle School Student Leaders on November 15th, 16th and 17th at Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester in Rye, New York. Students and teachers from thirty public and private middle schools in the Lower Hudson-Westchester region attended. HHREC staff and area middle…
Read MoreHolocaust & Human Rights Education Center Announces New Staff
The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) of White Plains, NY has appointed Jeanne Claire Cotnoir and Deborah Boxer Minchin as Coordinators of Student Programming. Cotnoir and Minchin will work with HHREC Co-Directors of Education Steve Goldberg and Julie Scallero on education programs, including the Human Rights Institutes for Student Leaders, Living History Project,…
Read MoreChappaqua Middle School Teacher Shares Insight From HHREC Trip: Summer Travels Amplify History of the Holocaust
Laurie Lichtenstein, a teacher at Seven Bridges Middle School in Chappaqua, and a new member of the HHREC Educators’ Program Committee, participated in the Summer 2022 Educators’ Trip to Germany and Poland. Read her informative and insightful article that appeared recently in MiddleWeb.
Read MoreHHREC Annual Benefit to Honor Dennis Mehiel, Feature Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist Bret Stephens as Keynote Speaker
The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) will honor Westchester County Business Executive Dennis Mehiel and feature Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist Bret Stephens as Keynote Speaker at their annual Benefit on Thursday, October 27th starting at 6:30pm at the Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York. Dennis Mehiel, formerly a twenty-year Westchester County resident, is…
Read MoreTeachers From Westchester and Across the U.S. Attend HHREC Summer Educators’ Tour of Germany and Poland
Social studies and English teachers from Westchester County joined with others from across the U.S. for the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) Educators’ Study Tour of Holocaust museums and historic sites in Germany and Poland this summer. Co-Director of Education Steve Goldberg and professional tour guide Gerrit Book led a two-week series of…
Read MoreHHREC Executive Director Quoted in News Story on New York Law To Survey Schools on How They Teach About Holocaust
New York is launching a survey to ensure all public schools are adequately teaching about the Holocaust, according to a new law signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul last Wednesday, August 9th. Read the article here that includes a quote from our Executive Director Millie Jasper.
Read MoreLeah Eisenberg Elected to Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center Board of Directors
White Plains, NY July 28th, 2022– The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) of White Plains, NY has announced that Leah Eisenberg has joined their Board of Directors. Eisenberg is a partner in Mayer Brown, a New York City Law firm, and she is a member of the firm’s Restructuring practice. Leah’s practice focuses…
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