Honey on the Page is Miriam Udel's new translation of Yiddish children's literature of the first 75 years of the 20th century. The BJV spoke with Professor Udel about the anthology and her academic research.
Rabbi Shira Stern, one of the first female rabbis ordained in the US, on her work as a chaplain and American Red Cross first-responder, America in a time of pandemic, and her hopes and goals for her new full-time life in the Berkshires.
“What I can do is enough, as long as it is done with intention…” - Great Barrington artist Nina Lipkowitz describes how her coronavirus-year anxieties gave birth to a series of abstract and mysterious watercolors
Rabbi Jodie Gordon of Hevreh of Southern Berkshire illuminates how wintertime and its holidays - Chanukah, Tu BiShevat, and Purim - can transform what may feel like a period of spiritual dormancy into a period of subtle growth.