Villages of the Berkshires is launching an effort to provide volunteer services such as friendly visitors or companionship, local transportation, technology support, and basic household repairs and assistance to seniors in the Berkshires.
Tag: Pittsburgh
Berkshire Hills responds to anti-Semitic threats at middle school
But as everyone agrees, any responses must be part of a larger community reckoning with societal problems that our schools reflect but do not create.
EDITORIAL: West Stockbridge leads in publicly condemning hate, racism, white supremacy
The proclamation was not a call to action. It was simply a statement of the values of the town of West Stockbridge.
Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 6: A celebration of death
I had grown up in a world stripped of death. I hadn’t even been to a funeral!
AMPLIFICATIONS: Moments
I believe we are not really a nation of baby-killing, Jew-hating, Islamophobic racists. Now everyone just needs to stand up and prove it.
In aftermath of Pittsburgh synagogue assault, interfaith vigil offers solidarity against hatred and violence
The most powerful words of the evening might have come from Talia Ben Sasson-Gordis, senior associate regional director at the Anti-Defamation League in Boston: “The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.”
Interfaith Community Vigil for Pittsburgh planned for Thursday, November 1
All are welcome at Community Interfaith Vigil, organized by the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires, to be held Thursday, November 1 at 5:45 p.m.
Pittsburgh: Sign of things to come
In her letter to the editor Tela Zasloff of Williamstown writes: “The Nazis had Hitler and his enablers; we have Trump and the Republicans in Congress and the hate fringe supporting Trump.”
#MeToo, 58 years later
And what do I and others do with our stories? What do we want from our abusers and the institutions that protected them?
The Self-Taught Gardener: Plants that demand a little support from their friends
The Million Women March has me thinking about relationships — between individuals and society, between plants and their habitat, and between our fundamental needs and how we demand they be met.
Marjorie Blair, 90, of Stockbridge
While living in Stockbridge, Marjorie Blair joined the Norman Rockwell Museum staff in 1972 as a guide.