The children of the Catskills generation make a new Jewish home in the Berkshires A new Chabad house in Lenox is the latest sign of a Jewish metamorphosis in a western Massachusetts vacationland.
At summer day camps, ‘fun’ Hebrew immersion program catches on In Kayitz Kef, the staff of mostly Israeli counselors speaks only Hebrew to campers six hours a day. English isn’t used unless there’s a safety concern.
How music and meditation jazzed up Jewish life on N.Y.’s Fire Island Sixty miles and a world away from Manhattan, Shabbat worshipers are now picking up percussion instruments along with their prayer books.
