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For Holocaust Remembrance Day

Thu, 04/24/2025 - 15:00

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons will commemorate Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, with a guest speaker and service on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. 

The speaker, Rachel Stern, who was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1994, is the founding director of the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized, and Banned Art in New York. She is the author of a book about the Expressionist artist Fritz Ascher, “To Live Is to Blaze With Passion,” and co-edited “Welcoming the Stranger: Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary Implications.” 

Advance registration is required by calling the Jewish Center or visiting its website, jcoh.org. 

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