This weekend is named for a woman. In the mind of a man who lived and wrote near the Scots border 1500 years ago … Easter is a woman who dances, a woman shining with the dawn.
Read articleA wide and varied spiritual community has roots in these hills, from contemporary shuls and churches, an Islamic cultural Center and a Sufi retreat at the Abode of the Message to Shaker villages and centers for herbalism and meditation.
Daf Moby project immerses in Melville — one page a day
Last fall, on Rosh Hashanah, Williams College professors Jeffrey Israel and Edan Dekel began reading Moby-Dick together … and they have found the experience transformative.
Read articleEnergy stirring in the heartwood of trees — #berkshireweekend
We’re coming up on the full moon at the heart of winter, and on Sunday I sat in a room full of windows, looking out at a vast willow and listening to songs about trees budding.
Read articleYiddish reveals a language of Global Culture
The Yiddish Book Center explores the vitality of an international living language as it transforms into ‘the first comprehensive museum of modern Yiddish culture in the world.’
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