Benjamin Gross, a jazz drummer from West Stockbridge, is the recipient of the 2024 Daniel Pearl Berkshire Scholarship. Gross plans to study music and music education at Syracuse University.
The beech forest in Massachusetts was already under threat from long entrenched beech bark disease. With this new foe now defoliating trees, one researcher termed the situation a one-two punch.
There is no monolithic voice among Jews in the Berkshires or even in Rabbi David Weiner s own family, and he’s walking a thin line as he welcomes 115 Jews and