By Natasha Dresner What comes to mind when you think of the word “culture”? Music? Dance? Art? Theater? We are blessed with so many varied world class nonprofit cultural institutions here in The Berkshires that it would be easy to miss something that these institutions - and a … [Read more...] about Cultural Institution (Not That One. The Other One)
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A Whole Nation Whose Minds are Unlike Each Other
By Barbara Sheklin Davis Amos Oz and his daughter Fania Oz-Salzberger, in their book Jewsandwords, write that “We Jews are notoriously unable to agree about anything that begins with the words ‘we Jews.’”[1] These words resonate in the 21st century, an epoch rife with div … [Read more...] about A Whole Nation Whose Minds are Unlike Each Other
The Week That All Jewish Women Turned Invisible
By the women* you can’t see and whose voices you can’t hear(but who are listed at the bottom of the piece to give credit to the women behind the words) Once upon a time, there was a Jewish community with lots of organizations. These organizations had leaders, and when the lea … [Read more...] about The Week That All Jewish Women Turned Invisible
The Holocaust as Pervasive (and Unhelpful) Metaphor for Contemporary Jewish Communal Challenges
By Dave Matkowsky The recent uproar over Israeli education minister Rafi Peretz's remarks comparing assimilation to the Holocaust in its effect on Jewish continuity struck me as odd. Not because I think the comparison is apt; to the contrary it is unfortunate and unhelpful. … [Read more...] about The Holocaust as Pervasive (and Unhelpful) Metaphor for Contemporary Jewish Communal Challenges
Head of School Goes Back to School
By Amy Gold It’s been exactly a month since I returned from a weeklong institute at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. I completed a course, LEV: Leadership an Evolving Vision, with 130 educators from around the world. We were a diverse group from 15 countries and 20 US st … [Read more...] about Head of School Goes Back to School
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