NYJW Travel

When Rabbi Barbara Cohen settled in the Berkshire mountains 34 years ago, the Jewish community was so small that “the joke always was that everybody was related here,” recalled the Long Island native. But like everything else in this green, rural corner of northwestern Massachusetts — from local theater to fields of organic beets — […]

Shortly after being sent to Los Angeles for work, my husband developed a grapefruit addiction. He started showing up at the office with a bag of grapefruits every morning, working his way through a pound or two of citrus before lunch. His colleagues apparently found this amusing. When I went out to visit, I quickly […]