Berkshire Jewish Community Calendar

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Jul

14 2024

CONCERT | Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment featuring Richie Barshay

12:00PM - 1:00PM  

Yiddish Book Center
1021 West St
Amherst, MA 01002

 

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music returns to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA! Join us on Sunday,…

Jul

14 2024

Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen [Present Itsik Manger’s Khumesh Lider]

3:00PM - 4:00PM  

Yiddish Book Center
1021 West St
Amherst, MA 01002

 

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music returns to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA! Join us on Sunday,…

Jul

14 2024

CONCERT | Eleanor Reissa and the Klezmer Brass Allstars

7:30PM - 8:30PM  

Yiddish Book Center
1021 West St
Amherst, MA 01002

 

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music returns to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA! Join us on Sunday,…

Jul

15 2024

Berkshire Jewish Film Festival

4:00PM - 6:00PM  

Lenox High School

 

The Berkshire Jewish Film Festival has two showings, one at 4PM and the other at 8PM. Visit https://berkshirejewishf…

Jul

16 2024

Working Toward a Peaceful Future

1:00PM - 3:00PM  

Knesset Israel
16 Colt Road
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

Four of Hadassah's national portfolio members will give us an update on what is happening at Hadassah' s hospitals,…

Jul

17 2024

Lunch and Learn at Temple Anshe Amunim

12:00PM - 1:00PM  

Temple Anshe Amunim
26 Broad Street, Pittsfield, MA
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

Fly Already, Riverhead Books, 2019 by Etgar Keret, who is speaking on July 25th at Shakespeare & Co., in Lenox, is a …

Jul

18 2024

Lessons from the Olive Tree for Jewish Unity and the Social Security System

10:45AM - 12:00PM  

This Federation event takes place at Knesset Israel
16 Colt Road
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

The menorah was not the original symbol of Chanukah. Why did it change? Why did the time of olive ripening become a d…

Jul

18 2024

Newish and Jewish--Great Barrington

5:00PM - 6:30PM  

Paula Bernay

Great Barrington, MA

 

New to the Berkshires? Welcome!   

 

Join us for a casual gathering to enjoy a glass of wine, meet others who a…

Jul

18 2024

Book Talk: The Art of Diplomacy with Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat

7:30PM - 8:45PM  

Knesset Israel
16 Colt Rd
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat will present on topics from his new book “The Art of Diplomacy: How American…

Jul

19 2024

Jews, Ivies, and Antisemitism: The American Dream on Trial

10:45AM - 12:00PM  

This Federation event will be held at Hevreh of Southern Berkshire
270 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

 

Please Register HERE.

About 100 years ago, Columbia University pioneered anti-Jewish admissions measures, which quic…