The children of the Catskills generation make a new Jewish home in the Berkshires

LENOX, Massachusetts - The new Chabad of the Berkshires here is just down the road from Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and just off the main street (called "Main Street") where Ethan Frome, the title character in Edith Wharton's 1911 novella, took an ill-fated sled ride with his wife's cousin.

"We're in the Times Square of the Berkshires!" says Rabbi Levi Volovik as he leads a tour of the gleaming, $12 million building, which opened in July. He goes on to list some other attractions that make the Berkshires the Berkshires, at least for the well-off Bostonians and...