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The Great Big Challah Bake­—is back in-person

The Great Big Challah Bake­—is back in-person

Tidewater women from five years of age and up gathered at B’nai Israel Congregation in Norfolk for the 7th Annual Great Big Challah Bake on Thursday, October 21. The annual event is part of the global Shabbos Project and a collaboration between B’nai Israel...

Books for area schools

Books for area schools

Each year the Holocaust Commission’s White Rose project donates educational materials to ALL middle and high schools in the area. Commission volunteers finish packing up this year’s books to be delivered to school libraries.

Last Summer at the Golden Hotel with Elyssa Friedland

Last Summer at the Golden Hotel with Elyssa Friedland

Monday, November 15, 12 pm, Sandler Family Campus and online Secrets and scandals come to light as the last family-owned Catskills resort teeters on the brink of extinction. Long-buried secrets emerge and everyone from the traditional grandparents to the millennial...

Gardening, the ultimate metaphor for life with Meir Shalev

Sunday, November 21, 2 pm, online While Meir Shalev is not a household name in the United States, he is one of Israel’s most celebrated novelists. Shalev will join the community for an online conversation as part of the 11th annual Israel Today series in partnership...

Local Lions of Judah welcome Jeannie Opdyke Smith to Tidewater

Yom HaShoah speaker Jeannie Opdyke Smith came to Tidewater a little early to meet with a special group of women. Thirty local Lions of Judah (Jewish women advocates and donors of $5,000 or greater to the UJFT annual campaign) met for lunch with Smith to hear in an...

Hebrew Academy students write pen pals in Kiryat Yam

Snail mail. Almost a lost art form, yes? Not for Hebrew Academy of Tidewater students. The sending and receiving of hand-written letters with new Israeli pen pals has become a fun way to broaden world perspectives, develop their cognitive and creative abilities and...

Six ways Israel is counting its blessings on Independence Day

TEL AVIV (JTA)—When Israel entered its 1948 War of Independence, the coastal city of Rishon Lezion was a hardscrabble farming settlement with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants. As waves of immigrants inundated Israel in its founding years, many were settled in temporary...

Choose Life

Most rabbis have the luxury of building relationships with their congregants that grow and change over the course of decades. They get to see their congregants’ life cycle events, be with them during times of joy and grieve with them during times of sorrow. The...

From the Hal Sacks Jewish News Archive

May 19, 2006 The Women’s Cabinet Outreach Committee of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, co-chaired by Judy Rubin and Ellen Peck Rosenblum, held two tours of the Chrysler Museum focused on works by contemporary Jewish artists. May 24, 1996 Ada Michaels, who...

Power and pathos: a visit to the cemetery

This coming Monday, most Americans will celebrate Memorial Day with pilgrimages to malls and outdoor spaces. Shopping and the performance of beginning- of-summer rituals will be the order of the day. But a few of our fellow citizens will reenact the ritual that gave...

Ohio Jewish leader cited by John Kasich for Holocaust memorial role

Joyce Garver Keller, the longtime executive director of Ohio’s Jewish community relations council who helped establish a state Holocaust memorial, has died at 68. On Monday, May 2, less than two weeks before she was scheduled to be honored at a Jewish Council for...

Frederick Mayer, German Jewturned U.S. spy against the Nazis

Frederick Mayer, a German Jew who fled Nazi Germany in 1938 and parachuted back in seven years later as an American spy, has died. Mayer died on Friday, April 15 in Charles Town, West Virginia, at the age of 94, his daughter Claudette confirmed to The New York Times....

Martin Gray, author of best-selling Holocaust memoir

Martin Gray, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor whose memoir about his experiences during World War II inspired a successful TV miniseries, has died at 93. Gray was found in the swimming pool of his second home in Ciney, Belgium, but officials said no foul play was...

Miriam Schajer Drory

Virginia Beach —Miriam Schajer Drory, 76, died Wednesday, April 20, 2016. She was born in Poland and moved to Australia where she married and started her family. In 1970, the family moved to Israel and after six years, they settled in Virginia Beach, where they have...

Ira Marshall Cantin

Norfolk —Ira Marshall Cantin, M.D., passed away at home on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Ira was born in Richmond, Va. on December 29, 1927. He is preceded in death by his mother Tess Kramer Cantin and father Nathan Cantin. Ira Cantin attended Taylor Elementary School,...

Barry S. Behrman

Virginia Beach —Barry S. Behrman, 70, of Virginia Beach, passed away April 23, 2016. Barry was born in Norfolk, the son of the late Aaron and Gertrude Behrman. Barry was the proud founder of Q-Master Billiards, which he operated for more than 40 years, as well as was...

Splashes of color and hours of fun planned for opening day pool party

Sunday, May 22, 1–4 pm, Simon Family JCC, Free for everyone The calendar may say May, but the weather shouts, “summer.” Simon Family JCC members and guests are invited to cool off and get their feet wet at the first pool party of 2016. The family friendly outdoor...