Ambassador Dennis Ross, one of America’s foremost Middle East diplomats and policy experts, offers insights and perspective on Israel’s current war with Hamas, the evolving strategies shaping the conflict, and the shifting geopolitics of the region. Drawing on decades of experience advising multiple U.S. administrations, Ross will help us make sense of the fast-moving events […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event
Berkshire Botanical Garden invites you to Rooted in Place: A Day of Stories, Seeds, and Stewardship — an immersive ecological symposium that celebrates the intimate ties between land, culture and community. Keynote Speaker: Abra Lee — Cultivating the Untold Stories of Black Gardeners and Growers. This gathering welcomes gardeners, farmers, educators, and nature lovers to explore how biodiversity and cultural heritage intertwine and how we […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Diversity and Inclusion, Health and Wellness, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Join us on Zoom for a visual exploration with members of the Firschein family on the history of their family’s legendary Yiddish printing press and how it came to reside at the Yiddish Book Center. For decades, the Firschein Press—a small, family-run printing business—provided the residents of Brooklyn neighborhoods with all their stationery and advertising […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event
Join PJ Library for a cozy End-of-Shabbat Pizza Party! Come in your coziest pajamas. We’ll say goodbye to Shabbat with Havdalah and end the evening with a sweet bedtime story. Register so that we have enough pizza for everyone! Bring new pajamas to donate to the annual PJ Library Pajama Drive happening for the month […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Family Friendly
Translators Ellen Cassedy and Anita Norich join Lisa Newman to discuss their recently released translation of Rashel Veprinski’s Hand in Hand. This headily bittersweet novel takes readers into the “Jewish tumult” of New York’s early 20th-century Yiddish literary community, where recent immigrants from Eastern Europe toiled as shoemakers and tailors by day while cultivating a vibrant intelligentsia by […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event
Though much is known about the famous painter Georgia O’Keeffe, little has been written about her lifelong friend Anita Pollitzer, the Jewish trailblazer of the American suffragist movement. Author Liza Bennett delves into their 50-year friendship. Part of Jewish Literary Voices.
Diversity and Inclusion, History and Heritage, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Political philosopher Joy James speaks with Lucius Outlaw, a philosopher concerned with matters of social and political life. Together with Zora J Murff and Terence Washington, they inform and discuss Murff’s artistic examination of the overarching structures that shape Black Americans’ desires and aspirations for the things that only appear to be liberatory. This subject […]
Belong Berkshires, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibits, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
MASS MoCA is pleased to present Zora J Murff: RACE/HUSTLE, curated by Terence Washington and the next exhibition to premiere as part of MASS MoCA’s Curatorial Exchange Initiative. RACE/HUSTLE aims to demonstrate, through photographs, collages, and, for the first time, installation works, that the pursuit of liberation is, in part, a struggle against a desire for what merely […]
Arts and Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibits
ARKAI is an award-winning electro-acoustic duo that has captivated audiences around the world with their creative imagination and cutting-edge string music. Transforming the beautiful tones of the violin and cello into epic soundscapes that resemble a rock band backed by a cinematic orchestra, ARKAI’s signature sound has led them to hundreds of performances around the […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Performing Arts & Entertainment
The Clark Art Institute is launching a debut series of Spanish-language tours of its permanent collection on. Additional tours will be offered on a quarterly basis. Each tour begins in the Museum Pavilion near the entrance to the permanent collection galleries. Visitors can pick up a ticket to join the free tour at the admissions […]
Belong Berkshires, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibits