Events surrounding Ferguson and other areas of the country have seriously questioned the euphoria following President Obama’s election in 2008 that we are living in a post-racial society. Though a number of whites have joined in the outcry regarding the inequity of the justice system, the belief that these events are anomalies of a truly…

A World Not Ours (2012) is a passionate, bittersweet account of one family’s multi-generational experience living as permanent refugees. Now a Danish resident, director Mahdi Fleifel grew up in the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, established in 1948 as a temporary refuge for exiled Palestinians. Today, the camp houses 70,000 people and is the…

Bart Worden, Leader of the Ethical Culture  Society of Westchester, will continue to emphasize the importance community has to enrich our lives and the lives of our circles of friends and acquaintances.  

Dan Berger will provide his insight into how the Charlie Hedbo terrorist attack in Paris will impact us in America. Daniel E. Berger, Lower Hudson Valley Chapter Director (Serving Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties) Daniel E. Berger is director of the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties…

The platform will be presented by Alex Spitzer, Educator with the Wolf Conservation Center. Alex will inform as about the mission of the Wolf Conservation Center and share some tales about the wolves that call the center their home. Alex graduated from SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry School in 2010 and has spent the last four…