The Annual Ethics for Children Sunday School Play will be performed today!

Living on One Dollar (2012) Two economics students studying international development in college try living on $1 a day for two months in rural Guatemala. Approximately 1.2 billion people are now living on $1.00 or less each day. How do they do it? Answer: with difficulty. They battle intense hunger, parasites and discover that there…

For the past 10 years, the Ethical Culture Society of Westchester has participated in the Westchester County Adopt-a-Road volunteer program. We pick up the roadside litter on both sides of Mamaroneck Ave. from the entrance of the Saxon Woods pool up to Ridge Rd. That’s almost 2 miles! We need your help. Come join us…

Our guest speaker will be Margaret Von der Meden who has been a beekeeper for over 15 years in Westchester County. She will share her expertise about honeybees, pollination and the benefits of honey and honey products and explain why scores of county residents are setting up hives in their backyards.

Westchester for Change Presents: EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY: A NEW YORK STATE REGENT’S VIEW WITH FEATURED SPEAKER: REGENT JUDITH JOHNSON For all the public concern about testing, teacher evaluations and curriculum in regards to New York public schools, a larger issue is often forgotten—educational inequality. Regent Johnson will discuss the characteristics that define public schools, sharing the implications for our democracy if…

This platform attempts to reverse the national conversation about the “crisis in the humanities” by changing what we think the humanities are for. With case studies and the democratic potential of higher education, Dr. Fanuzzi discusses how a new generation of scholars, students and activists are forging a stronger link between the humanities practical application…

The Westchester Coalition against Islamophobia invites you to join in a conversation. Thursday, November 5, from 7 to 9 p.m. Ethical Culture Society of Westchester 7 Saxon Wood Road White Plains, NY 10605 (Ample, free parking available – served by the #60 bus) Recent events raise complex questions about how we define freedom of expression…

The Ethics for Children Sunday School program is gearing up for the Thanksgiving play! Come join us as we prepare for the annual performance. All children are welcome!

The core idea of Ethical Culture, that by eliciting the best of others we elicit the best of ourselves and create a more ethical society, is based on a premise that individuals have worth in and of themselves and are to be treated accordingly. That is not easy to do when people are faced with…

How do we know what we know? Do people hold ideas, or do ideas hold people? Why do some ideas propagate like wildfire and others never get off the ground? Richard is a long-time member of the Ethical Culture Society of Westchester. He has been active on its Board and served as its president in…