Local Teen Maya Kaufman shares memories of her Federation-supported trip with Roots Israel Service Learning Adventure, a community service program of the Jewish National Fund and the Alexander Muss High School in Israel
Links to two stories that appeared in the February 2020 BJV - "Fallen Angel: Hannah Senesh," fiction by Talia Caine, and Rabbi Reflection: "The Kaleidoscope of Cuba," by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat
Rabbi Jack Reimer reviews Beside Still Waters: A Journey of Comfort and Renewal, reflections on mourning and mortality through a Jewish lens, edited by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat of Congregation Beth Israel in North Adams, MA.
Responding to A Shtetl in the Sun, an exhibition of Andy Sweet's photographs of Miami Beach in the late 1970s now at the Yiddish Book Center, BJV Editor Albert Stern remembers what it was like to grow up in that Technicolor Anatevka.
Federation's Executive Director Dara Kaufman on her visit last summer to the Afula-Gilboa region of Israel, where she saw some of the good work accomplished there through the Partnership2Gether program
