May 5 and 6, 7:30 pm; May 7, 2:30 pm Attucks Theater This brand new play, Exodus: Homecoming, is debuting as part of the Virginia Arts Festival 25th Anniversary Season at the Historic Attucks Theatre. Inspired by the inherited Exodus narrative, this funny and...
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Congresswoman Elaine Luria and Bruce Smith to be special guests on Unorthodox podcast
Thursday, April 7, 7:30 pm Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art When Unorthodox records live in Tidewater next month, Congresswoman Elaine Luria will be the Jewish guest, and former NFL Hall of Famer Bruce Smith will be the Gentile guest. Each of the podcast’s shows...
Dr. Al Munzer to speak at Yom Hashoah
Wednesday, April 27, 6:45 pm, Congregation Beth El In-person as well as live streamed on www.facebook.com/holcommission The annual community Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, will feature Dr. Al Munzer as the guest speaker. Munzer was hidden as a child in the...
Hope Richmond Ballet performs
Sunday, April 24, 4:30 pm, Susan S. Goode Fine and Performing Arts Center, Virginia Wesleyan University It is in divine moments when I know for sure—art is an essential element of life. It is also in these moments I am reminded of the light from all the stars—the...
Simon Family JCC’s Annual Senior Seder is back
Tuesday, April 12, 12 pm, Sandler Family Campus The beloved annual model Passover Seder is open to all seniors in the Tidewater community. Chazzan David Proser of KBH Synagogue will lead participants in a fun, engaging, and abbreviated service followed by a delicious...
Janice Anten
Chattanooga, Tenn.—After a life well-lived, Jan Anten passed away peacefully in Chattanooga, Tennessee in the early morning hours of February 27, 2022. Though born in Boston, Jan spent most of her life in Norfolk, Virginia, where she worked as a school librarian until...
Touchdown, Israel
Monday, October 30, 7:30 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus What would you say to your childhood hero if you had the chance to meet? In June, thousands of Israelis got the opportunity to do just that when Bruce Smith, Joe Montana, “Mean” Joe Greene, and 16 other...
Lee & Bernard Jaffe* Family Jewish Book Festival
November 5–19 Simon Family JCC’s annual Lee & Bernard Jaffe* Family Jewish Book Festival returns with the promise of a great series of author engagements and to expand participants’ minds on such topics as: • Mindfulness and de-stressing, • How the short stories...
The Perfect Storm: What regional turmoil means for the State of Israel
Monday, October 2, 7:30 pm, Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus With constant uncertainty and change in the Middle East, it is difficult to stay updated with the most current developments. Still, it is important to stay alert to the difficulties Israel faces from her...
Up now and next in the Leon Family Gallery
Yoni Alter September Israel-born Yoni Alter’s work is characterized by his bold use of color and his integration between the graphic and artistic, between the figurative and the abstract, and between form and space. Alter studied art and design in Jerusalem before...
Humans of Tel Aviv founder Erez Kaganovitz changes the narrative
Humans in the Public Sphere Sunday, Oct. 8, 10:30 am, Sandler Family Campus Tikun Olam Family Workshop Tuesday, Oct.10, 5:30 pm, Sandler Family Campus Photographs of Tel Aviv and Israelis are seen daily around the world—but how many depict the real Tel Aviv; the Tel...
The Yom Kippur Cake
Thank G-d, I am married to an amazing woman and have five incredible boys. Every year at anniversaries and birthdays we celebrate each other, give gifts, eat cake, or in my wife’s case, a lot of chocolate, and the next day, our lives continue. We celebrate, sing, take...
American Jews weigh in on Trump, anti-Semitism, Netanyahu in poll
WASHINGTON (JTA)—American Jews overwhelmingly disapprove of President Donald Trump in just about every area, scoring him lower than his predecessor even on topics like Israel, where Jewish approval of Barack Obama was relatively low, according to an American Jewish...
In call with Jewish groups, Trump does not take questions
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The debate has gone on for weeks among rabbis and Jewish leaders: If President Donald Trump does not formally renounce white supremacists, is it still worth engaging in a conversation with him? This was on much of the Jewish community’s mind since...
Memorial to Israel’s Olympic athletes murdered in Munich dedicated
A decades-long injustice to the memory of Israel’s Olympic athletes murdered by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games was rectified this month with the dedication of a permanent memorial to their memory in the very same Munich Olympic Park, where...
Catch-And-Release Fishing Derby reels in the fun at Sandler Family Campus
The first-ever Catch-and-Release Fishing Derby at the Simon Family Jewish Community Center took place on Sunday, September 17. With more than 60 official registrants and many more family and friends as supporters and participants, the turnout exceeded expectations for...
3rd Annual Great Big Challah Bake
Thursday, October 26, 7 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus Want to enjoy the fragrance of yeast rising, laugh, and share community with hundreds of women, and then experience the deep satisfaction of baking a challah for Shabbat? This year, the 3rd Annual Great Big...
Commander Harold (Hal) Howard Sacks, U. S. Navy Retired August 2, 1930–September 8, 2017
With the passing of Hal Sacks, Jewish News has lost a friend, advocate, historian, and visionary—along with a writer and book review editor. As a friend, Hal was always available for advice—and not timid about offering it up—even when it wasn’t requested. As an...
High Holidays
High Holidays, September 25, 2017
Betty Ann Levin named UJFT executive vice president
After a national search, United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s board made the decision to “go local” with the appointment of Betty Ann Levin as executive vice president upon Harry Graber’s retirement in May 2018. Currently executive director of Jewish Family Service...
Tidewater’s Jewish community is committed to Teshuvah, Tefila, and Tzedakkah
We have now completed the month of Elul, a time when individuals begin to intensify their process of repentance in anticipation of the Yamim Noraim or the Days of Awe. It is during Elul that individuals will begin offering sincere apologies to and seeking forgiveness...
Jewish couple killed in Brooklyn house fire remembered as ‘righteous’
A Brooklyn couple killed in a house fire was remembered as “genuine,” “righteous” and “devoted to family” at their joint funeral. Mourners spilled outside a Borough Park chapel for the joint funeral of Howard and Evelyn Gluck, who were killed early that morning in a...
Hungarian monument to Jewish Holocaust victims smashed
A monument in Hungary commemorating Jewish slave workers later murdered in the Holocaust was defaced. At least three marble plates signifying Jewish headstones were smashed last month in Balf, a town located 120 miles west of Budapest, the Jewish weekly Szombat...
MICHEL ZEMIL
Virginia Beach —Michel Zemil, 83, died Sunday, August 20, 2017 in a local hospital. He was a native of Washington, DC and a resident of Hampton Roads since 1976. He was the son of the late Abraham and Elizabeth Luftig Zemil and was preceded in death by his sister Roni...
STANLEY WARANCH
Virg inia Beach —Stanley Waranch, 91 years old, peacefully passed away on August 12, 2017 in his home after a long illness. He was born February 9, 1926 in Norfolk, Virginia to the late Eldridge and Nellie Brodsky Waranch. He is survived by his wife of 69 years, Carol...
CAROL BUXBAUM WARANCH
Virginia Beach —Carol Buxbaum Waranch “A woman of valor, who can find? For her price is far above rubies.” Proverbs 31. Carol Buxbaum Waranch, age 89, peacefully passed away Thursday, August 17, 2017 in her home. She was born March 11, 1928 in Queens, New York to the...