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Where Jewish Lives End, Karen Benioff Friedman ’86’s Artwork Begins

The Jewish News of Northern California – “Benioff Friedman’s paintings,” writes Laura Paull, “range in style from the figurative to the nearly abstract. With muted colors and gentle gestures, they express the underlying tenderness of the subject.” That subject is chevra kadisha, Jewish burial societies who prepare bodies for interment and comfort the families of the deceased.

Nneya Richards ’08 on Why and How Traveling Can Help Us Become Better Human Beings

Medium – Richards, a blogger and contributor to publications such as Condé Nast Traveler and Teen Vogue, answers questions from Maria Angelova about her life as a world traveler and creative professional. “Putting a face to my bylines let BIPOC people know I went into these spaces and you can too. We belong here,” she says. “I deeply believe that travel bridges gaps and misunderstandings. We are ambassadors.”

Professor Maria Heim’s New Book Is a Storehouse of Feelings

Tricycle: The Buddhist Review – “Perhaps one of the most pernicious misconceptions about Buddhism is that it requires practitioners to reject and eliminate emotions,” writes Sarah Fleming. Heim, Amherst’s George Lyman Crosby 1896 & Stanley Warfield Crosby Professor in Religion, is challenging this stereotype. “In Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India, she presents 177 terms for emotions drawn from three classical Indian languages: Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit.”

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Happening at Amherst

Honors Performance Theses: Samuel Wright ’23, Composition, Patrick Spoor ’23, Voice

Music@Amherst Presents: Welcome to Indian Country with Opening Words and Song by Larry Spotted Crow Mann

Music@Amherst Presents: Gabriela Montero with Charlie Chaplin's "The Immigrant"

Welcome Back Celebration at the Mead with Opening Reception for Architectural Ghosts

“Ancestral Bridges” Exhibition

“Ancestral Bridges” Opening Reception