Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel

By Carol Goodman Kaufman / Traveling With Jewish Taste

Although his eponymously named book purportedly brings chef Alon Shaya back to his roots in Israel, most of the recipes in it come from every place else he has worked. And Shaya doesn't set up his cookbook up in the usual manner, start…

Recent Adults, Young Jews: Creating community for 20-something Jews

By Jodie Friedman / Special to the BJV

I moved to Great Barrington in August 2017 feeling good about starting my career as a Jewish professional with Hevreh of Southern Berkshire, and realized pretty quickly that in rural, expansive Berkshire County, my peer group of Jewish 20-somethings wa…

Rabbi Reflection: It’s About Time…

By Rabbi Barbara Cohen

The Talmud says “There is no before and there is no after.” The biblical use of the Hebrew letter ‘vav’ before a verb can change the future tense to the past and the past tense to the future. The Exodus from Egypt happened to all of us. We are to understand th…

A Yid Drinkt Nisht Aleyn: Jews and Whisky

Hadassah Men’s Scotch whisky tasting to benefit initiative to combat Alzheimer’s Disease

By Alex Rosenblum / Special to the BJV

The much-anticipated Berkshire Hills Hadassah Men’s Association’s Scotch whisky tasting fundraiser featuring premium 18-year single malts and the introduc…

The Book of Separation - Author Tova Mirvis, Interviewed by Avi Dresner

The Berkshires’ third annual Jewish Festival of Books will take place at Hevreh of Southern Berkshire in Great Barrington from Thursday, July 18 through Sunday, July 21. 

On Saturday, July 20th, following Shabbat morning services which begin at 10 a.m, best-selling novelist Tova Mirvis d…