Berkshire Jewish Voice Highlights

Highlights from the Berkshire Jewish Voice

A Time of Contraction and Expansion: New Watercolors by Nina Lipkowitz

“What I can do is enough, as long as it is done with intention…” - Great Barrington artist Nina Lipkowitz describes how her coronavirus-year anxieties gave birth to a series of abstract and mysterious watercolors

Rabbi Reflection: The Wisdom of the Trees

Rabbi Jodie Gordon of Hevreh of Southern Berkshire illuminates how wintertime and its holidays - Chanukah, Tu BiShevat, and Purim - can transform what may feel like a period of spiritual dormancy into a period of subtle growth.

Traveling With Jewish Taste - Indian Jews

Our Traveling With Jewish Taste columnist Carol Goodman Kaufman writes about the fascinating history of India's Jewish population, which has preserved Jewish traditions across generations. In the photo above, some of the 252 Jews from India’s Bnei Menashe community who arrived in Israel…

Oman, A Moon, and a Man Named Elvis - Stories in Our Jan. Print Edition

Links that will provide more information about three stories that appear in the January print edition of the Berkshire Jewish Voice.

Israel, Land Of Milk and Honey…..And Whisky

The BJV's bronfen (Yiddish for 'whisky') correspondent Alex Rosenblum talks to Eitan Attir, founder of Israel's Milk & Honey Distillery, about what makes his pioneering Holy Land single-malt whisky distinctive.