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THE OTHER SIDE: When the protectors won’t protect

If I have sounded like a broken record these past months, it is because these developments in American public health are as important as they are horrifying.

Alan Chartock: On being Jewish

In truth, some Jews run counter to the mythology. Nevertheless, there are some cultural norms that exist among Jews.

MMRHS has been leader in anti-prejudice education

In 1972, the social studies department at Monument Mountain Regional High School created the very first Holocaust curriculum in the country for high school students.

REVIEW: Barrington Stage’s ‘If I Forget’ sophisticated but only half way there

With a plot this rich, expectations for what happens run high, but Act 2, set six months later, sadly disappoints.

THEATRE REVIEW: Barrington Stage’s superb ‘If I Forget’ is a theatrical gem

When history and religious background lead the intellectual way to drama and all the factors work perfectly—as they do in this fine play—all we have to do is sit back and let the characters take us where they must.

Courtney Maum’s new historical novel tackles art, coming-of-age themes

"It was really easy for me to imagine what it would be like for a young woman who wants to be an artist, who is watching her mother cavort with the world’s most famous artists, often talk all day about their art and then ignore her own creative production. So in that way, I identified very much with what that emotional neglect would feel like." --Courtney Maum

FILM REVIEW: ‘Ask Dr. Ruth’ profiles the astonishing life of famous sexpert

This 4-foot-7-inch dynamo with a thick German accent connected with her audience because of her candor and her good intuitive advice.

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

Princeton Prof. William Happer compares carbon dioxide to Jews living during the Holocaust.

PART III: The complicated, controversial politics of W.E.B. Du Bois and his passion for social justice

Certainly Great Barrington can simultaneously recognize his flaws and faults while also finding ways to remember publicly, in a permanent way, his profound contributions to the struggle to push the United States to live up to its founding ideals, particularly regarding the plight of African-Americans.

Great Barrington shows its support for immigrants

In her letter to the editor, Joanne Rogovin writes: "An estimated 500 men, women and children filled the hill next to the GB shrubbery, protesting the separation and detention of children and families at the Mexican border."

Lessons from St. Petersburg about the Berkshire Museum

In her letter to the editor, Leslie Ferris writes: "What has happened to our community? Why would the board of trustees of the Berkshire Museum agree and why would our laws allow them to sell the artistic heritage of the Berkshires?"

BOOK REVIEW: ‘To Catch a Nazi’ by Kenneth Markel

David Menard’s mission is vengeful and deeply personal and he is finally given every chance to carry it out. The story involves the Israeli Mossad, the CIA and the help of many kindred spirits.

REVIEW: 55th New York Film Festival, Part II

"Lady Bird" is the debut feature film by actress Greta Gerwig, known especially as the lead in Noah Baumbach's recent films. It's a girl's coming-of-age movie, a genre as rare as hens' teeth. Baumbach's latest film, 'The Meyerowitz Stories,' was also featured in the festival.

A Passover message: Resist the new inhumanity

Why is this night different from all other nights? This night is different because it lights my way, in sharp relief, to an understanding that the plague of inhumanity to others only breeds an inhumanity in our souls.

‘Holocaust Centers,’ according to White House press secretary

"He [Hitler] was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing…he [Hitler] brought them into the Holocaust centers.” -- Sean Spicer, White House press secretary

The democracy of dreams

No matter one’s capacity for imagination in waking life, in dreams, there is a democracy of imagination-- some more, some less, but all of us busy through the night and sleep making up dreams.
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