The eighth book by poet, essayist, and visual artist Karen Chase, "Two Tales: Jamali Kamali and ZundelState," explores the nature of dreams and passion in stories set in the distant past and the distant future, finding that the things that keep us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand.
Welcome to the second installment of edition of “Dr. Steve Recommends.” Each month, Dr. Steve Rubin will list three (or four) books dealing with issues of interest to the Jewish community.
In December, we asked BJV readers to share some of the Jewish books that they thought our readers might enjoy. Here are some suggestions that Linda Burghardt, journalist and scholar-in-residence at the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center (as well as BJV contributor and Federation…
In this Rabbi Reflection column, Rabbi David Weiner of Knesset Israel in Pittsfield writes about his visit to Jerusalem in December 2024 to participate in the Masorti Rabbinical Assembly Convention.
In January, Executive Director Dara Kaufman had the privilege of joining fellow Federation leaders on a five-day mission organized by the Jewish Agency for Israel to meet with our Afula-Gilboa region partnership grantees to express our community's unwavering support and to witness firsthand…
