Sunday, March 13, 1–4 pm Sandler Family Campus, Free The delicious aroma of fresh baked goods is back this Purim season with the return of Operation Hamantaschen. Filled with assorted fruit jams or other sweet confections, these tasty triangular shaped cookies,...
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Yom Ha’Atzmaut— Community Israel Festival
Sunday, May 1, 12–4 pm, Sandler Family Campus A community celebration of Israel presented by Avraham and Karen Ashkenazi, this year’s Ha’atzmaut will mark the Jewish nation’s 74 birthday. Fun for the entire family, the event is open to friends of all faiths. To get...
Steven Richard Brodie
Baltimore, Md.—Steven Richard Brodie, of Baltimore, Md., passed away on Sunday, February 20, 2022 at the age of 61. He is survived by his former wife, Marcia Brodie (nee Futterman); his daughter, Jemma Jin Brodie; siblings, Ellen (Rick) Sanders, Howard (Bill Martin)...
Dr. Harry Mancoll
Cranston, R.I.—Dr. Harry Mancoll, 87, of Cranston, R.I. passed away on Thursday, February 17, 2022 at Briarcliffe Gardens. He was the beloved husband of Terrie (Simone) Mancoll for 32 years. Born in Hartford, Conn., a son of the late Morris and Edith (Mellamed)...
Harold Pollack
Norfolk—Harold Pollack, 80, passed away on February 9, 2022 in Norfolk, Va. He was born in New York City, N.Y. to Louise and Ruth Pollack. He served his country in the United States Army. He worked in paper sales for 40 years. He was a member of Temple Israel in...
Pietro “Pete” Villani
Virginia Beach—Pete “Pietro” Villani, 96, passed away peacefully on February 14, 2022. Pete was born to the late Paul and Palmira Villani in Apollo, Pennsylvania on May 1, 1925. Living 91 years of his life in Apollo, Pennsylvania, he served his country proudly in the...
In Our Hands: the Battle for Jerusalem
Tuesday, May 23, select theaters This spring marks the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War. CBN Documentaries commemorates this historic battle with the new film, In Our Hands: the Battle for Jerusalem. For centuries, the Jewish nation had been in exile. Then, for a...
AJC’s Global Forum
Sunday, June 4–Tuesday, June 6 Washington, DC A leading global Jewish advocacy organization, AJC has unparalleled access to government officials, diplomats, and religious leaders, engaging worldwide opinion and policy leaders at the highest levels. The annual...
James Comey had admirers among Jewish defense officials
WASHINGTON (JTA)—“You make us better,” James Comey told the Anti- Defamation League in his final public speech as FBI director. Judging from the applause in the conference room at the venerable Mayflower Hotel here, the feeling was mutual. Mired in investigations of...
Trump executive order allows campaigning from the pulpit
(JTA)—Jewish groups largely came out against a new executive order allowing clergy to endorse or oppose candidates from the pulpit, fearing that it will erode the separation between church and state. The order, which President Donald Trump signed Thursday, May 4 at...
Sydney Levine bounces back to receive Stein Family College Scholarship from Tidewater Jewish Foundation
The annual Stein Family College Scholarship of the Tidewater Jewish Foundation was awarded this month to Sydney Levine, a soon-to-be graduate of Frank W. Cox High School in Virginia Beach. Levine is the ninth recipient of the four-year scholarship of up to $10,000 per...
Tidewater gets a taste of Israel
Chefs Guy Marom and Nir Margalith of Puzzle Israel, an adventure tour and catering company, spent a week in Tidewater sharing their love of food and celebrating Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israel’s 69th birthday. Sous chef Neta Margalith, joined her brother and Marom for a busy...
Celebrating Israel’s 69th—Community played, shopped, learned, and danced with Israel
Sunday, April 30 was a beautiful day all around—not just the weather—as more than 1,200 people attended the Simon Family JCC’s annual Israel Fest to experience the culinary, cultural, and artistic gifts of Israel. Attendees at the celebration were treated to fresh...
Health Care
May 15, 2017, Health Care Section
Yom Hashoah moves the community
This year’s Yom Hashoah Commemoration, honoring the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, as well as liberators and righteous gentiles, brought the community together around not just awareness and sadness, but honor, hope, and music on a rainy Sunday night. Yom...
Anne Frank’s final days, as told by her former classmate
(JTA)—Looking through the barbed wire of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 14-year-old Nanette Konig could barely recognize her friend and classmate from Amsterdam, Anne Frank. Both girls had been caught by the Nazis in the Dutch capital and were sent to starve to...
Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, newspaper publisher and civil right stalwart
Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, a newspaper publisher and civil rights activist in Tennessee, has died at 96. Holmberg, a member of the family that controls The New York Times, challenged racial barriers, political skulduggery and environmental adversaries as publisher of...
MARTIN E. SILFEN
VIRGINIA BEACH—Martin E. Silfen, an entertainment lawyer and Professor of Law, died unexpectedly on April 21, 2017 at the age of 81. Martin is survived by his loving wife, Dory S. Silfen; his children, Jane, Lisa and Larry; six grandchildren, Jennifer, Bradley,...
NANCY LEITMAN FORMAN
Norfolk —Nancy Leitman Forman, 83 of Norfolk, died peacefully April 19, 2017 in Virginia Beach. Mrs. Forman was born in Norfolk and graduated from Maury High School. She was the daughter of the late Jacob Leitman and Florence Sachs Leitman. Mrs. Forman retired from...
JOSEPH MILTON COLLECTOR
Norfolk —A guardian angel must have accompanied Joe Collector during his numerous bombing missions over Nazi Germany, while stationed in England during World War ll. A belly gunner, his B-17 Fly Fortress was shot down twice over the English Channel requiring him to...
An ardent peace activist’s’ latest novel
Judas Amos Oz Translated by Nicholas de Lange Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 305 pages, $25 Amos Oz, Israel’s premier author, is the very embodiment of Eretz Yisrael Hayafa, that beautifully inspiring Israel—particularly in its early pioneering phase—a reborn nation...
Vivid docudrama, In Our Hands, retells the modern battle that returned Jerusalem to Israel
Film marks 50th Anniversary of Israel's Six-Day War CBN and Fathom Events present theatrical screening, Tuesday, May 23 On the 50th Anniversary of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War comes the gripping new docudrama In Our Hands: The Battle for Jerusalem. This CBN...
Temple Emanuel celebrates its 6th Annual Pink Tea
Sunday, May 7, 2-4 pm The keynote speaker for this annual event to benefit the Beach Health Clinic to support under-served women with free cancer screenings and mammograms is Marni Siegel. For information, call Paula Krukin Levy, event chair at 757-467-6677; Devorah...
New Israel Fund luncheon
Saturday, May 6, 1 pm A conversation and luncheon with the New Israel Fund will take place at the home of Susan Feit and Eitan Stern. The New Israel Fund, Israel's leading progressive organization, has been working to advance equality, pluralism, and democracy for...
Lynne Seagle to speak at Temple Israel’s Annual Disability Awareness Shabbat
Saturday, May 20, 9:30 am Temple Israel's Annual Disability Awareness Shabbat will feature Lynne Seagle, executive director of the Hope House Foundation, as the guest speaker. Seagle began her career at Hope House Foundation in 1978 as director of residential...
A Taste of Israel comes to Tidewater with Puzzle Chefs’ Israeli Kitchen Encounter
Tuesday, May 2, 7:30 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus Guy Marom and Nir Margalith, Israeli chefs and founders of the tour group Puzzle Israel, will share their love of fresh, authentic Israeli food in a fun, hands-on Israeli Kitchen Encounter. At this culinary...