BJV Yiddish and bronfen correspondent Alex Rosenblum reviews "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish," an anthology of essays, articles, excerpts of Yiddish plays and stories, poems, and cartoons. This "monumental effort" with a "boundless optimism for Yiddish" was…
In this Berkshire Jewish Voices story, Dr. Leo Goldberger shares his experience of coming to America after World War II on a trans-Atlantic journey - accompanied by a daring fellow passenger.
Elisa Spungen Bildner, co-author (with Robert Bildner) of The Berkshires Farm Table Cookbook, updates us on how the farm and food communities in the Berkshires have fared during the pandemic.
With gratitude, Amy Lindner-Lesser, president of the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires', shares how your donations to our Annual Campaign supported our community during a year of crisis
Rabbi Daniel Lehmann reflects on the themes of the Purim holiday, and how Esther was "the catalyst for the unfolding of a new era in Jewish history...in which the human intellect and human agency take center stage as prophetic revelation recedes"
