Rabbi Neal Borovitz reflects on his lifelong connection to Israel and shares some thoughts on how the Jewish state might move forward following the Oct. 7 attacks. A Berkshire Jewish Voices After Oct. 7 essay.
In this Berkshire Jewish Voices After Oct. 7 essay, Albert Stern draws on his experiences growing up among Holocaust survivors and living in Israel during the Yom Kippur War to reflect on Oct. 7.
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In two award-winning graphic memoirs, the 2016 Flying Couch, and Artificial, a self-described “work of memory and imagination” published in 2023, New Yorker cartoonist Amy Kurzweil chronicles her family’s Holocaust legacy. The BJV's Linda H. Davis had a chance to talk to Kurzweil in…
As we approach New Year 5785, Rabbi Rachel Barenblat of Congregation Beth Israel of the Berkshires shares some thoughts on the difficult year we just experienced, as well as hopes for a better year ahead.
