Berkshire Jewish Voice Highlights

Highlights from the Berkshire Jewish Voice

"Welcome and Farewell:" Thoughts From Our Executive Director Dara Kaufman

Our executive director Dara Kaufman on personnel changes at Federation and the end-of-the-year push to meet our annual campaign goal

A Fond Farewell from Susan Frisch Lehrer - Thanks Volunteers & PJ Families!

Our Coordinator of Volunteers and PJ Library, Susan Frisch Lehrer is retiring at the end of the year, and wishes all the people who have volunteered over the years a fond farewell and a hearty Todah Rabah!

Rabbi Reflection: Plans for Winter (Inner) Travel

In our Rabbi Reflection column, Rabbi Barbara Cohen of Congregation Ahavath Sholom in Great Barrington shares thoughts on how the difficult inner work to rediscover and reclaim parts of our exiled selves can be very restorative and well worth the effort

Jewish Women’s Foundation of the Berkshires Packs 25K Meals in One Morning

In September, the Jewish Women's Foundation of the Berkshires partnered with Meals of Hope and enlisted community volunteers to help pack 25,000 meal packages that were distributed to food pantries by the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts

"Through the Hat" - The Art of Steve Marcus at The Yiddish Book Center

The edicts of our sages, the world of our fathers, and the iconography of underground art meld in the images, sculpture, and Judaica of Steve Marcus, now on view at the Yiddish Book Center