"Shabbat Chazon," the Sabbath of vision, falls this year on July 22. In this Rabbi Reflection column, Rabbi Neal Borovitz looks to scripture and history to offer some thoughts on how to repair the divisions among today's Jews.
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It's been said that if wishes were fishes, we would all cast nets. In this Traveling With Jewish Taste column, our correspondent Carol Goodman Kaufman explores the place of fish in the Jewish diet - plus a recipe for "Chraime: Moroccan Fish in Spicy Tomato Sauce."
Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat, negotiator for the Jewish Claims Conference to secure reparations for victims of the Holocaust, writes about the film "Reckonings," which tells that story. He will speak at the Berkshire Jewish Film Festival on July 17 before a screening of the documentary.
An exhibit at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge tells the story of the pioneering Jewish psychoanalysts who fled Vienna before its occupation by the Nazis.
