Local Teens Invited on Sponsored Trip to Auschwitz Exhibit in NYC

Teens and pre-teens from Rockland County, NY and northern Bergen County, NJ are invited to join a fully-sponsored trip to the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s Auschwitz exhibition on Monday, November 11. (New York schools are closed in observance of Veteran’s Day.) The exhibit Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. is described as “the most comprehensive Holocaust exhibition about Auschwitz ever presented in North America.”

Teens need to bring a bag lunch with them. The group will leave from Beth Am Temple in Pearl River, NY at 9:30 am and travel to the museum for a tour beginning at 11:30 am. Museum docents will lead the 90-minute tour. The group will return to Beth Am Temple at approximately 3 pm. The trip to the museum in Lower Manhattan including transportation and museum admission is sponsored by the Al Loeb Scholarship Fund of Beth Am Temple.

Beth Am Temple Religious School principal Karen Herskowitz and four other adults will chaperone the trip.

RSVPs are due by Tuesday, November 5 to Rabbi Daniel Pernick at rabbidan2019@gmail.com. Contact Rabbi Pernick with questions about the trip by email or at 845-735-5858.

The exhibition opened in May 2019 at the museum in Battery Park City. Read more about the museum which is “A Living Memorial to the Holocaust” and the exhibition here.

Beth Am Temple is a Reform temple located at 60 East Madison Ave in Pearl River, NY. Its website is www.bethamtemple.org.