Teaching English to Refugees by Robert Radin; Ibidem Press Robert Radin, the director of citizenship and immigration services for Jewish Family...
Last March, the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival (PVJFF), a staple in the region since the early 2000s, was just about to present its latest...
AMHERST — Almost 70 years ago, Jewish survivors of the Holocaust arrived in a small town in Connecticut and tried to rebuild their shattered lives...
Valley author and former Northampton poet laureate Lesléa Newman has won a National Jewish Book Award for children’s literature for her 2019 book...
Amherst artist Richard Cohen, a native of New Jersey, says he grew up watching his mother, who had studied with a French painter, create oil and...
An artistic lineage persistent in spite of diaspora and genocide: That’s the foundation on which the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst has built its...
Dramas, documentaries, comedies, cultural studies, stories from history and the Holocaust: They’re all on tap over the next few weeks during the...
NORTHAMPTON — On Monday evening, well over a hundred people walked a mile with lit candles in hand from the Unitarian Society to Congregation B’nai...
EASTHAMPTON — At the corner of Williston Avenue and Cottage Street on Sunday evening, a circle of people stood holding candles in remembrance for...
NORTHAMPTON — Members of the Jewish community in the Pioneer Valley are holding a number of events in October to highlight the plight of refugees...
NORTHAMPTON — Adams Jewelry, a Main Street institution in Northampton for nearly 40 years, closed its doors for good on Feb. 24.“It just seemed...
When he was growing up in Brooklyn, Richard Michelson was a long way from being part of any organized religion. Though his family was Jewish, no...