Josh Bloom, a vice president on Federation's Executive Board, on the deepening ties between the Berkshires and Israel's Afula-Gilboa region through JAFI's Partnership2Gether program
Rabbi Neil P.G. Hirsch of Hevreh of Southern Berkshire on students' paths to healing after a difficult anti-Semitic incident at a local middle school
Carol Goodman Kaufman on the history of gefilte fish, with a recipe on how to make your own at home.
Richard Slutzky on how life in the Berkshires will help him chair Hazon, the national Jewish environmental nonprofit
Berkshires native Ari Drayman, now a sophomore at American University, shares his Birthright Israel experience, funded in part by the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires
