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The Tidewater Ukraine Emergency Fund has raised and distributed more than $280,000 as of Tuesday, April 19. The money has been sent to United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s overseas partner agencies, the American-Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and Jewish...
Words matter. So do images. We see and feel the impact of words and images in cascading form in this age of technology driven social and journalistic media. As we were reminded at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, people, nations, and institutions pay the price when...
To do a job well, one must have the proper tools. A carpenter might need a specific saw for a type of wood to be cut, a photographer might need a special lens to capture a tiny creature, and educators need the most up-to-date information and methods to teach and...
What one (or two) thing(s)—of the probably many—have you learned from your mom? We posed the question to several women, and not surprisingly, their responses are filled with respect, admiration, love, and even some humor. How fortunate these women are to have had such...
A packed house of Strelitz International Academy parents watched their children perform on stage, many for the first time, on Thursday, March 24. After two years of COVID mitigations, including no family programs or performances, SIA’s Evening of the Arts: How...
A live recording of “the universe’s leading Jewish podcast” had everyone laughing at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art on Thursday, April 7. The Unorthodox podcast team visited the “Paris of the mid-Atlantic,” as Tidewater was referred to by host Liel Lebovitz,...
Monday, February 12, 7:30 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus Aaron David Miller, vice president for New Initiatives and Distinguished Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will discuss the future of the U.S. involvement in a volatile...
Erin Zimmerman Scenes from Israel February The architecture in Israel and the daily lives of the country’s citizens are explored in this moving photography exhibit. Erin Zimmerman is a writer, producer, and director of documentaries about history, people, and biblical...
February 15 7 pm, Keynote address VIP cocktail reception, 6 pm TCC Roper Performing Arts Center February 16 8:30 am–1 pm Simon Family JCC Tidewater Learning Connection, an initiative of the Hebrew Academy of Tidewater, presents “How to Raise an Adult.” This two-day...
Amanda Gladstone, recipient of the Stein Family College Scholarship in 2014, has one semester left at Virginia Tech and radiates enthusiasm when she talks about her experience there. To say she loves Virginia Tech would be an understatement. A senior in marketing, she...
Taking action to help others is not new for Caleb Peck. His mom, Stephanie, tells the story of when Caleb was three years old he saw a homeless person and was genuinely concerned about why there wasn’t a place for him to live. He used to say that when he grows up he...
Back in December when I was reading Jewish News (not much of a surprise there, I know!), an image in the advertisement for the Gift Shop at Decorum caught my attention. It was of a small book, Little Book of Jewish Appetizers. I had one within a few days. The book...
NEW YORK (JTA)—During a combative news conference in early August, White House adviser Stephen Miller told reporters that the United States should prioritize immigrants who speak English. “Does the applicant speak English?” Miller asked, describing a bill to reduce...
Though the Jewish community in South Korea is small, Jews visiting the country to compete in or watch the Winter Olympic Games won’t have to skimp on kosher food or Shabbat programming. The country’s Chabad emissary is setting up a pop-up restaurant in Pyeongchang...
United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Women’s Cabinet recently hosted Arielle Di Porto from the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI). Di Porto gave a stirring presentation about JAFI’s important work of rescuing Jews throughout the world. Director of the Aliyah division...
EVMS Professor of Obstetrics, Dr. Steven Warsof, was made an honorary member of the Israeli Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology for his long-standing volunteer efforts at the Azoraeli School of Medicine of the Galilee at Bar Ilan University in Sfat Israel. The award...
Mazel Tov, February 5, 2018
( JTA)—The world is about to revolve around Pyeongchang, a mountainous county in the northern half of South Korea, for the upcoming Winter Olympics. Jewish fans won’t have quite as many standout athletes to cheer for this year as they did in 2016, when multiple...
Hundreds of mourners attended a funeral service for Blaze Bernstein, 19, a Jewish college student found dead in a park near his parents’ Southern California home after he went missing for nearly a week. The funeral was held Monday, Jan. 15 at University Synagogue in...
WHIPPANY, New Jersey (New Jersey Jewish News via JTA)—Alan Sagner, a former chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and a major benefactor of Jewish and liberal causes and the Democratic Party, died Jan. 3 at his home in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. He...
BERLIN (JTA)—Kazimierz Piechowski, a non-Jewish political prisoner who led a daring escape from the Auschwitz death camp using the stolen car of a Nazi official, has died at 98. Piechowski died last month in Gdansk, Poland. He was one of four men in the escape plan...
Columbus , Ohio—Robin Rogoff Star, 65, of Rockville Md., passed away on Friday, Jan. 5, in Columbus, Ohio. She was the daughter of Rena and Jerry Rogoff of Virginia Beach. Robin was the beloved wife of 44 years of Michael; loving mother of Matthew (Sarai) of Columbus...
NEWPORT NEWS—Dorene Zilber Sarfan, 88, passed away December 22, 2017. She was a native and lifelong resident of Newport News. She graduated from Newport News High School in February 1946 and attended Mary Washington College. She was preceded in death by her husband,...
Virginia Beach —Sherman “Sherm” Lichty, 87, loving husband, father and Poppa, passed away January 1, 2018. Sherm was born in Norfolk, Va. He graduated from Maury High School in 1948 and served in the US Army during the Korean War. Sherm spent his time between Florida...
Greensboro , NC—Jeanette Weiner Bardy Levy, 98, passed away Saturday, December 9, 2017 in Greensboro. “Jan,” as she was known, was the thoughtful matriarch of an adoring family that includes four children, nine grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren. Jan was born...
Virginia Beach —Rosalia Kaplan, 83, of Richmond, formerly of Virginia Beach, passed away Monday, December 18, 2017.She was preceded in death by her husband, Abraham Kaplan. She was the beloved mother of her children, Andy Kaplan (Toni) and Lisa Fantasia; beloved...