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…
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…
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…
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…