Michael Shocket News Today

RANDOLPH TWP. – The Mount Freedom Jewish Center (MFJC), Randolph’s oldest operating synagogue, will screen the award-winning film, “Witness,” by filmmaker Michael Shocket.

The sacred Czech Torah scrolls, rescued after the Nazis had looted synagogues and thrown the scrolls into a synagogue in Prague, Czech Republic. MICHAEL SHOCKET GREAT BARRINGTON â€” Rabbi Neil Hirsch opens a centuries-old Torah scroll that was seized by the Nazis. The sacred document now lives here, at Hevreh of Southern Berkshire.  Though it is estimated to be more than 200 years old, it is used frequently. "Most [of the Czech scrolls] are not in good enoug...

These are just some of the people donating their time to make local vaccination clinics happen. “I thought this would be a great way for me to give back,” said Dr. Michael Nancollas, a recently retired hand surgeon who now administers COVID-19 vaccines. “This is so big that it’s going to require many more people than they have right now.” Berkshire County has been vaccinating upward of 600 to 700 people per day at each clinic site, with few hiccups, drawing praise from ...