Berkshire Jewish Voice Highlights

Highlights from the Berkshire Jewish Voice

A Mensch in Full: Howard Kaufman z"l

Remembering Howard Kaufman, a pillar of the Berkshires Jewish community.

“Excuse me, but are you Albert by any chance? "

In this Berkshire Jewish Voices story, writer Ruth Kaplan visits Lenox ins search of the ever-elusive editor of this newspaper - but finds someone else with whom she shares a wholly unexpected but meaningful connection.

Traveling With Jewish Taste: In A Mess. Of Pottage, That Is.

Esau sold his birthright for some, and you may just want seconds of the lentil soup our correspondent Carol Goodman Kaufman writes about in this Traveling With Jewish Taste column.

Rabbi Reflection: Ands or Buts…Thoughts for 5783

In this New Year-themed Rabbi Reflection column, Rabbi Barbara Cohen of Congregation Ahavath Sholom in Great Barrington considers how a simple linguistic shift - learning to substitute the word "and" for the word "but" - might transform one's view of oneself and of the world

Dancing With the Ancestors - The Art of Carolyn Newberger

Last March, artist Carolyn Newberger of Lenox explored her family’s roots in Ukraine through her dismay over the country’s invasion by Russia. She created “Dancing With the Ancestors, Ukraine,” a mixed media collage and painting, as a way of both acknowledging the historical…