NORFOLK—Irene Kushner Weintrob, daughter of Saul and Bluma of blessed memory, died on Monday, February 28. Her parents were Holocaust survivors. She will be joined in Eternal rest with her son, Stuart David Weintrob, who died at a young age. She was born in Belgium...
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Charles Entenmann
(New York Jewish Week via JTA)—Nothing seems so Jewish as a box of Entenmann’s cake or cookies. “All of the Jews I know bought Entenmann’s,” wrote Nancy Kalikow Maxwell in her 2009 book Typically Jewish. The bakery earned a place in Tablet magazine’s list of “100 Most...
Jewish Community in Ukraine faces crisis
JDC's Ukraine Response Ukraine’s vibrant Jewish community is one of the largest in the world, home to an estimated 200,000 Jews. The current situation with Russia (as of Feb. 23) has convinced some in this Jewish community to leave, others to prepare to fight, and...
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58th Annual VCIC Tidewater Humanitarian Awards Dinner to honor Charlie Nusbaum
Thursday, March 24, 6 pm, Westin Virginia Beach Town Center The fifth Nusbaum to receive the Virginia Center for Inclusive Community’s prestigious Humanitarian Award, Charles (Charlie) S. Nusbaum is a natural recipient. Previous Nusbaum winners include Justine, V. H....
Local Jewish New American and WWII Veteran celebrates 100th birthday
Local Holocaust survivors, New Americans, Jewish Family Service Senior Acculturation Case Manager Alla Gean, and volunteers living at Granby and Suburban Houses gathered at the home of Semen Shilman to honor him and his family to celebrate Shilman’s 100th birthday on...
Local Jewish woman rides 75 miles in memory of boy from Norfolk family
Shira Low Itzhak, a United Jewish Federation of Tidewater Women’s Cabinet member, will undertake a grueling bike ride on July 19. Along with 250 other women, she will ride 75 miles from New Jersey through the Catskill Mountains of New York. The World’s Greatest Finish...
Corrie Lentz: helping to make things happen at the JCC
The Simon Family JCC offers a calendar of bold perspectives and community enrichment for members and guests. With record number attendees for Camp JCC and speakers such as Dennis Ross, the JCC serves as a gathering place for fun, education, and social networking. The...
This 136-year-old Jewish agency for refugees has a new mission in the Trump era: Fighting back
NEW YORK (JTA)—On Jan. 27, President Donald Trump made Mark Hetfield’s job impossible. Hetfield is the president and CEO of HIAS, an organization that resettles refugees in the United States. A week into his presidency, Trump issued an executive order barring refugees...
Most Reform and Conservative rabbis are Democrats. That’s far higher than any other clergy.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The vast majority of Reform and Conservative rabbis affiliate as Democrats, according to a new study. The study, published this month by Yale University, found that more than 80 percent of Reform rabbis, and about 70 percent of Conservative rabbis,...
Holocaust Commission invites educators, and community members to its 13th Biennial Educators’ Conference
Words Matter: Now More Than Ever Wednesday, July 26 and Thursday, July 27 The Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s highly praised Biennial Educators’ Conference provides educators with tools, strategies, and techniques to use for...
Hebrew Academy graduates the Class of 2017
On Tuesday, June 7, the Hebrew Academy of Tidewater Class of 2017 held a very moving graduation ceremony. Of the 14 students graduating from the school, 12 had attended the HAT since preschool. Next fall, these graduates will attend a variety of excellent schools...
One can only imagine what could follow
It may have begun on a dark, rainy September night, but the 6th Annual Israel Today series ended with a bang on a beautiful, warm May evening, as the Tidewater community gathered to cook with Chefs Nir Margalith and Guy Marom, of travel and culinary group Puzzle...
Senior Living
Just who qualifies as a ‘senior’ is a bit confusing these days. That’s mainly because the definition of ‘senior’ and who identifies as one, is more of a moving target than ever before. While it wasn’t that long ago that very few people worked beyond 65 years old, or...
UJFT Biennial Meeting sees leadership transition to John Strelitz
The 2017 Biennial Meeting of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater was held June 7 in the Fleder Multipurpose Room on The Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus. The community was invited, and leaders from temples and synagogues, other Jewish agencies, and the UJFT...
Nikos Stavroulakis, activist promoting Jewish life and heritage in Greece
Nikos Stavroulakis, an artist, scholar, and prominent activist promoting Jewish life and heritage in Greece, has died. Stavroulakis died Friday, May 19 in Chania, on the island of Crete. He was in his mid-80s. "The world of Greek Jewry owes Nikos so much," Marcia...
Alan Mintz, Hebrew literature scholar and one-time student activits
New York (JTA) - Alan Mintz, a professor of Hebrew literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary and, as a student in the 1960s and 1970s, a leader of a movement of young Jews who sought to infuse organized Jewish life with the activist spirit of the era, has died....
MICHAEL EUGENE STREDLER
Norfolk - Michael "Mickey" Stredler, 77, passed away peacefully at home on May 30, 2017. Mickey was born in Philadelphia, Pa. He attended the University of Virginia from 1957 through 1960 and then the Medical College of Virginia, where he earned his Bachelor of...
JOSEPH REZNICK
Virginia Beach - Joseph I. Reznick, 98, passed away on May 27, 2017. He was born on January 23, 1919 in Columbia, S.C. to Louis Reznick and Esther Solomon Reznick. He served as a Major in the United States Air Force during World War II. He spent most of his life in...
FRANCES MINKIN
Virginia Beach - Frances Minkin, 82, passed away on June 2, 2017. Originally from the Bronx, N.Y., she was the daughter of the later Isadore and Rose Rauchwerger and the widow of Charles Minkin. She is survived by her daughter, Elynne Minkin and her son and...
JUDITH BLUM HATHAWAY
Virginia Beach —Judi Blum Hathaway, 64, passed away on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 surrounded by her family. Judi was born on October 6, 1952 to Cecil (deceased) and Irene Blum. Left to cherish Judi's memory are her daughter and son-in-law, Tamara and Zander Galloway;...
ROBERT EUGENE BROWN
Norfolk —Robert Eugene Brown 79, died on May 20, 2017, at his home, in the care of family, friends, and home hospice. The cause was idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Bob Brown was a principled, analytic, and deeply loving man who had a passion for the law, his chosen...
Mr. and Mrs. David Balaban
Mr. and Mrs. David Balaban of Virginia Beach on the engagement of their son, Jody Michael Balaban to Erin Ashley McGrattan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. McGrattan Jr., also of Virginia Beach. Ms. McGrattan, a graduate of Bishop Sullivan Catholic High and...
Rabbi Israel Zoberman with Martin Culqreth
Rabbi Israel Zoberman with Martin Culqreth, Special Agent in Charge, of the FBI’s Norfolk field office. Rabbi Zoberman addressed the Hampton Roads FBI community on the historical Jewish experience.
Father, mother, parent, you: God is beyond our language
About two decades ago, a bat mitzvah student asked me a familiar question, but with a surprising twist. She said, “Rabbi, is God a He?” And I answered, “No, He’s not.” Then we both thought for two seconds about what I had just said, and simultaneously, we burst out...
Federation’s historic partner, JDC, provides emergency assistance in Sri Lanka
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is responding to catastrophic flooding and mudslides in Sri Lanka, the result of the worst storms to hit the island nation since 2003. JDC, together with its local partner Sarvodaya, a Buddhist-inspired...