On Sunday, April 12 at 2 p.m., Federation and the Tanglewood Learning Institute host a community Yom HaShoah commemoration led by Terezin Music Foundation Director Mark Ludwig, whose subject will be "The Grey Zone – Music from Terezín and Holocaust Remembrance."
On Thursday, March 26, at 7 p.m., historian Andrew Porwancher will discuss his book, "American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews," which explores the complex and often surprising relationship between the 26th US president and the American Jewish community during a pivotal moment in…
Yizkor books are commemorative volumes produced in the decades following WWII and emigres to memorialize the Jewish communities erased during the Holocaust. Author Jane Ziegelman spoke to the BJV about her remarkable new book, "Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish…
In January, Jeremy Burton selected Jewish Federation of the Berkshires Executive Director Dara Kaufman as one of his Peer Recognition Grant recipients. In addition to collaborating closely on issues of shared concern, Burton and Kaufman served together on the Massachusetts Special…