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Aug

1 2017

Play Analysis Class with Dr. Barbara Waldinger

10:00AM - 11:30AM  

Temple Anshe Amunim
26 Broad Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

A four-week course, led by Barbara Waldinger, Professor of Theater at Queens College in New York City and Artistic Di…

Aug

2 2017

Yoga Class - Come Relax at Hevreh

10:30AM - 11:30AM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

Do you want to stretch your body and your spirit?

Aug

2 2017

Lecture, Lunch and Learn on the Dreyfus Affair

11:30AM - 1:30PM  

Temple Anshe Amunim
26 Broad Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

The Dreyfus Affair: details forthcoming

Aug

2 2017

Lunch N’ Learn at Hevreh with Professor Alfred Ivry

11:45AM - 1:00PM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

This series of classes is meant to elaborate on the main themes in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, as brought…

Aug

3 2017

Alfred Uhry, The Southern Jewish Playwright

10:45AM - 12:00PM  

This Federation event will be held at Knesset Israel
16 Colt Road
Pittsfield, MA 01201

The Jewish Federation Connecting with Community welcomes dramatist and director of local theater, Diane Steinbrink,…

Aug

3 2017

Hevreh Presents: The Jewish Imagination & Health and Healing

3:30PM - 5:00PM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

We will discuss selections from the Talmud, Jewish mysticism, and modern Hebrew literature that illuminate care for…

Aug

4 2017

JTS in the Berkshires

11:00AM - 12:30PM  

Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre
70 Kemble St,
Lenox, MA 01240

 

Four professors from the Jewish Theological Seminary will each discuss an aspect of the 2017 theme: Times of Crisis: …

Aug

6 2017

FILM | "Beautiful Tree, Severed Roots"

2:00PM - 3:30PM  

Yiddish Book Center
1021 West St
Amherst, MA 01035

 

Beautiful Tree, Severed Roots is Kenny Mann’s documentary about her parents’ extraordinary lives as Jewish refuge…

Aug

7 2017

Sexuality with Dr. Bonnie Sax at Hevreh

9:30AM - 11:00AM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

The August 7 session will investigate sexual fantasies. How do men and women fantasize, and how are they different?

Aug

7 2017

Writing Your History

10:45AM - 12:00PM  

This Federation event will be held at Knesset Israel
16 Colt Road
Pittsfield, MA 01201

The Jewish Federation Connecting with Community presents a two day workshop to explore writing memoirs and family histories.

Aug

7 2017

Berkshire Jewish Film Festival

4:00PM - 6:00PM  

Lenox Memorial Middle and High School
197 East Street
Lenox, MA 01240

 

Bogdan's Journey

Aug

7 2017

Berkshire Jewish Film Festival

8:00PM - 10:00PM  

Lenox Memorial Middle and High School
197 East Street
Lenox, MA 01240

 

Moos

Aug

8 2017

Studying the Talmud at Hevreh

9:30AM - 11:00AM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

The group will read Talmud (Steinsaltz edition) and engage in spirited debate on the merits of each case.

Aug

8 2017

Scene Study with Dr. Barbara Waldinger

10:00AM - 11:30AM  

Temple Anshe Amunim
26 Broad Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

Four-class series in acting.

Aug

8 2017

iEngage - The Tribes of Israel: A Shared Homeland for a Divided People

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Lenox Community Center
65 Walker Street
Lenox, MA 01240

Join Rabbi Neil Hirsch and Rabbi David Weiner for a six session class which confronts the challenges of creating a…

Aug

9 2017

Yoga Class - Come Relax at Hevreh

10:30AM - 11:30AM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

Do you want to stretch your body and your spirit?

Aug

9 2017

Lunch N’ Learn at Hevreh with Professor Alfred Ivry

11:45AM - 1:00PM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

This series of classes is meant to elaborate on the main themes in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, as brought…

Aug

10 2017

Writing Your History

10:45AM - 12:00PM  

This Federation event will be held at Knesset Israel
16 Colt Road
Pittsfield, MA 01201

The Jewish Federation Connecting with Community presents a two day workshop to explore writing memoirs and family his…

Aug

10 2017

Hevreh Presents Talking About the Holocaust

3:30PM - 5:00PM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

The discussion should be provocative. Answers may be ephemeral. Moderated by Hevreh member Lou Levine. This event…

Aug

11 2017

A Shared Society: Challenges & Opportunities of Multiculturalism in Israel

10:45AM - 12:00PM  

This Federation program takes place at Hevreh of Southern Berkshire
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

The Jewish Federation of the Berkshires presents: Knosh & Knowledge. A Shared Society: Challenges & Opportunities of…

Aug

13 2017

Hevreh's Great Ideas Talk with Dr. Len Saxe

10:30AM - 12:30PM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

Join us for a light brunch and discussion with Dr. Len Saxe: Assimilation, Anti-Semitism, and Anti-Israelism:…

Aug

13 2017

Chabad event

11:00AM - 1:00PM  

Levi and Sara Volovik
450 South Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

TBD

Aug

13 2017

"TIKKUN OLAM''.-TO REPAIR THE WORLD - A TRIBUTE TO PETER, PAUL AND MARY

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Knesset Israel
16 Colt Rd.
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

Local musicians and vocalists lovingly bring back a memorable musical era.

Aug

14 2017

Hevreh Presents What You Probably Didn’t Know About The Nuremberg Trials

9:30AM - 11:00AM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

Most people are aware of the post-WW II Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals including Hermann Göring. Less well…

Aug

14 2017

Berkshire Jewish Film Festival

4:00PM - 6:00PM  

Lenox Memorial Middle and High School
197 East Street
Lenox, MA 01240

 

The Pickle Recipe

Aug

14 2017

Berkshire Jewish Film Festival

8:00PM - 10:00PM  

Lenox Memorial Middle and High School
197 East Street
Lenox, MA 01240

 

Who's Gonna Love Me Now?

Aug

15 2017

Studying the Talmud at Hevreh

9:30AM - 11:00AM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

The group will read Talmud (Steinsaltz edition) and engage in spirited debate on the merits of each case.

Aug

15 2017

Scene Study with Dr. Barbara Waldinger

10:00AM - 11:30AM  

Temple Anshe Amunim
26 Broad Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

Four-class series in acting.

Aug

15 2017

iEngage - The Tribes of Israel: A Shared Homeland for a Divided People

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Lenox Community Center
65 Walker Street
Lenox, MA 01240

Join Rabbi Neil Hirsch and Rabbi David Weiner for a six session class which confronts the challenges of creating a…

Aug

16 2017

Yoga Class - Come Relax at Hevreh

10:30AM - 11:30AM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

Do you want to stretch your body and your spirit?

Aug

16 2017

Lunch N’ Learn at Hevreh with Professor Alfred Ivry

11:45AM - 1:00PM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

This series of classes is meant to elaborate on the main themes in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, as brought…

Aug

17 2017

Elder Scam and Fraud Prevention

10:45AM - 12:00PM  

This Federation event will be held at Knesset Israel
16 Colt Road
Pittsfield, MA 01201

The Jewish Federation Connecting with Community hosts representatives of MountainOne Bank who will present with a…

Aug

17 2017

Hevreh Presents Behind the Scenes: Making Tootsie

3:30PM - 5:00PM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

As the only journalist that director Sydney Pollack and Columbia Pictures permitted on the set and in the editing…

Aug

18 2017

JTS in the Berkshires

11:00AM - 12:30PM  

Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre
70 Kemble St,
Lenox, MA 01240

 

Four professors from the Jewish Theological Seminary will each discuss an aspect of the 2017 theme: Times of Crisis: …

Aug

19 2017

Havdalah at Tanglewood

7:00PM - 10:00PM  

Tanglewood Music Festival

Lenox, MA 01240

 

Join Temple Anshe Amunim as we usher in a new week and bid farewell to Shabbat at Tanglewood. Rabbi Joshua…

Aug

19 2017

Tannery Pond Concerts: Inbal Segev and Alon Goldstein

8:00PM - 10:00PM  

Tannery Pond Concerts
110 Darrow Rd.
New Lebanon, NY, NY 12125

 

Cellist Inbal Segev and pianist Alon Goldstein join forces for a program of works by Brahms, Schumann, Dvořák, and more.

Aug

20 2017

Maimonides Society: Maimonides as a Physician of the Body and Soul

10:00AM - 12:00PM  

Lenox Community Center
65 Walker Street
Lenox, MA 01240

4th annual Maimonides Society' Meeting. Maimondies as a Physician of the Body and Soul with guest speaker, Alfed Ivry, PhD.

Aug

20 2017

Hevreh Presents Streit’s Matzo and the American Dream

10:30AM - 12:30PM  

The Triplex Cinema
70 Railroad Street
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

Filmmaker Michael Levine will introduce the film, and join us for a talkback following the screening. Ticket price…

Aug

20 2017

FILM | "Dough"

2:00PM - 3:30PM  

Yiddish Book Center
1021 West St
Amherst, MA 01035

 

A comedy/drama about the unlikely friendship between an old Jewish baker and a young Muslim. Curmudgeonly widow Nat D…

Aug

21 2017

A Mother and Child: From the Warsaw Ghetto to Hope and Freedom

10:45AM - 12:00PM  

This Federation event will be held at Knesset Israel
16 Colt Road
Pittsfield, MA 01201

The Jewish Federation Connecting with Community presents "A Mother and Child: From the Warsaw Ghetto to Hope and…

Aug

21 2017

Created Equal: Short Plays by Jesse Waldinger

7:00PM - 8:30PM  

Temple Anshe Amunim
26 Broad Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

An evening of short plays by Jesse Waldinger, exploring struggles against oppression in American history.  The stage…

Aug

22 2017

Studying the Talmud at Hevreh

9:30AM - 11:00AM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

The group will read Talmud (Steinsaltz edition) and engage in spirited debate on the merits of each case.

Aug

22 2017

Scene Study with Dr. Barbara Waldinger

10:00AM - 11:30AM  

Temple Anshe Amunim
26 Broad Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

Four-class series in acting.

Aug

22 2017

iEngage - The Tribes of Israel: A Shared Homeland for a Divided People

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Lenox Community Center
65 Walker Street
Lenox, MA 01240

Join Rabbi Neil Hirsch and Rabbi David Weiner for a six session class which confronts the challenges of creating a…

Aug

23 2017

Yoga Class - Come Relax at Hevreh

10:30AM - 11:30AM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

Do you want to stretch your body and your spirit?

Aug

23 2017

Lunch N’ Learn at Hevreh with Professor Alfred Ivry

11:45AM - 1:00PM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

This series of classes is meant to elaborate on the main themes in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, as brought…

Aug

23 2017

Jewish Federation Phone-a-thon

6:30PM - 8:30PM  

Jewish Federation of the Berkshires
196 South Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201

Follow-up Phone-a-thon for Annual Campaign

Aug

24 2017

Through the Eye of the Needle - The Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz

10:45AM - 12:00PM  

This Federation event will be held at Knesset Israel
16 Colt Road
Pittsfield, MA 01201

The Jewish Federation Connecting with Community hosts Helene McQuade for a screening of a short film about her…

Aug

25 2017

Jewish Womens Foundation General Membership Meeting

9:30AM - 11:30AM  

Country Club of Pittsfield
639 South Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

JWF General Meeting

Aug

25 2017

Who By Fire: A Shabbat Sermon in Song at Hevreh with Rabbi Deborah Zecher

7:30PM - 9:30PM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

Having welcomed the month of Elul this week, we begin a period of reflection and preparation for the High Holy Days. …

Aug

26 2017

Lunch and Learn with : Rabbi Pamela Wax: What is Mussar?

12:00PM - 2:00PM  

Knesset Israel
16 Colt Rd.
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

Rabbi Wax teaches us how to bring the spiritual values of Judaism to our daily lives.

Aug

27 2017

50th Annual Hilda Vallin Feigenbaum Memorial Lecture

7:30PM - 9:30PM  

Temple Anshe Amunim
26 Broad Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

Sponsored by the Hilda Vallin Feigenbaum Lecture Endowment

Aug

29 2017

Studying the Talmud at Hevreh

9:30AM - 11:00AM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

The group will read Talmud (Steinsaltz edition) and engage in spirited debate on the merits of each case.

Aug

29 2017

Scene Study with Dr. Barbara Waldinger

10:00AM - 11:30AM  

Temple Anshe Amunim
26 Broad Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

Four-class series in acting.

Aug

29 2017

iEngage - The Tribes of Israel: A Shared Homeland for a Divided People

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Lenox Community Center
65 Walker Street
Lenox, MA 01240

Join Rabbi Neil Hirsch and Rabbi David Weiner for a six session class which confronts the challenges of creating a…

Aug

30 2017

Yoga Class - Come Relax at Hevreh

10:30AM - 11:30AM  

Hevreh
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

Do you want to stretch your body and your spirit?

Aug

31 2017

Elul Warm Up

10:45AM - 12:00PM  

This Federation event will be held at Knesset Israel
16 Colt Road
Pittsfield, MA 01201

The Jewish Federation Connecting with Community hosts Hevreh of Southern Berkshire's Rabbi Jodie Gordon, who will…

Aug

31 2017

Project Dignity

1:00PM - 3:00PM  

Sara Volovik
450 South Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

Project Dignity
"People helping People" will be the last Thursday of the month from April through September