Brainstorming session: Monday, December 6 The Jewish Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Be a Reader (BeAR) Literacy Program is refusing to hibernate this winter. Instead, it is roaring into new territory. BeAR will host a...
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B’nai Israel plans 75th anniversary celebration
Friday, January 14 and Saturday, January 15 The Shabbos of January 14 and 15, B’nai Israel will celebrate the congregation’s 75th anniversary with a gala kiddush. B’nai Israel Congregation serves the Jewish community however possible. To help enhance this very special...
I Had a Brother Once, with Adam Mansbach
Wednesday, December 8, 7:30 pm Join Adam Mansbach, novelist, humorist, and poet, for his second visit to Tidewater as he shares excerpts from his new memoir, I Had a Brother Once. The event is presented by the Konikoff Center for Learning at the United Jewish...
Mazel Tov to Michael and Mattie Brooke
Mazel Tov to Michael and Mattie Brooke on the birth of a daughter, Brocha. Michael and Mattie were married on August 27, 2020. Michael attended Hebrew Academy of Tidewater, Toras Chaim Yeshiva, and received a bachelor’s degree in Talmudic Studies from Bais Medrash...
Harriet Bresenoff
Raleigh, North Carolina—Harriet R. Bresenoff, born on September 2, 1931, passed away October 25, 2021 surrounded by her loving children. Sensing her deep loss, she left this earthly realm a mere 16 weeks after her beloved Morty. Harriet and Mort had 69 years of...
Charles Stuart Heyman
Needham, Massachusetts—It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Charlie Heyman, on Friday, October 22, 2021 in Needham, Massachusetts. Charlie was the loving husband of Renee Heyman (of blessed memory). Charlie is survived by his daughter Joanne...
Matti Friedman Israel Today—Sifting through the media spin
Wednesday, May 11, 7:30 pm, Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus Matti Friedman, former Jerusalem Bureau reporter and editor for the Associated Press will be the featured speaker in the final event of the 5th Annual Israel Today Series, hosted by the Community Relations...
Simon Family JCC’s 6th Annual President’s Golf Cup Tournament improves kids programs at every shot
Thursday, June 9, 1 pm, Heron Ridge Golf Club One of the greatest professional golfers of all time, William Ben Hogan, said, “The most important shot in golf is the next one.” The Simon Family JCC applies that sentiment when planning their Annual Presidents’ Golf Cup...
YAD, JCC, and Chabad’s Lag B’Omer Bash
Bonfire, Food, Beer, Music Thursday, May 26, 5:30 pm In the midst of Omer count, count off these 10 fun facts about the Lag B’omer holiday, to get informed and pumped for the upcoming YAD, JCC and Chabad Lag B’Omer Bash. • Lag B’Omer, literally translated from Hebrew...
JDC photograph auction includes image by Annie Sandler Repairing the World: Frame by Frame
Tuesday, May 17, 6 pm Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is presenting its first ever auction of original photographs by board members who have been involved with JDC’s humanitarian programs...
Student art exhibit completes the Holocaust Commission’s Elie Wiesel competitions
May 10–May 31, Old Dominion University Higher Education Center, Virginia Beach The Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s 2016 Elie Wiesel Visual Arts competition, which yielded a record number of submissions from students across the...
Seder at Strelitz
On Tuesday, April 19, the Strelitz Early Childhood Center held an educational and fun Model Passover Seder. Preschool parents were invited to attend with their children. Together, parents and children sang Passover songs, tasted Passover foods, and the children...
Witness to pre-Holocaust life in Poland
Three Minutes in Poland (Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film) Glenn Kurtz Farrar, Strauss and Girioux 415 pages, $33 It began on July 23, 1938, almost a year before the outbreak of WWll in the European theatre, when David and Liza Kurtz from Brooklyn, New...
Rabbi Arthur Z. Steinberg
February 7, 1938–April 10, 2016 Rabbi Rosalin Mandelberg delivered the eulogy for Rabbi Arthur Z. Steinberg at Ohef Sholom Temple. An abbreviated version follows Heart-broken and sorrow filled, as we gather to remember our beloved Rabbi Arthur Z. Steinberg, we reflect...
Holocaust Commission adds three powerful films to What We Carry program
Premiere of short documentaries at free screening Sunday, May 22, 2 pm, Sandler Center for the Performing Arts “My name is Alfred Dreyfus. I was born in Rastatt, Germany in 1923.” “My name is Mary Sigillo Barraco. I was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1923.” “My...
Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy advisers are exactly who you’d expect them to be—which is now rare
WASHINGTON (JTA)—It’s the season of the unconventional foreign policy adviser: Donald Trump takes advice from his sonin- law and real estate attorney, and Bernie Sanders cites folks who didn’t know they were advising him. In this field, Hillary Clinton’s inner circle...
From the Hal Sacks Jewish News Archives
May 5, 2006 For the second consecutive year, the Week of Healthy Living, Jewish Family Service’s major fundraising event, took place. It included the 2nd Annual Run, Roll or Stroll at Norfolk Botanical Gardens, as well as a variety of speakers and free health...
Staying awake at night
“Rabbi Chanina ben Chachinai said: One who is awake at night or goes on the road by himself, and turns his heart to wasteful things, this person is taking his life in his hands.” —Ethics of Our Fathers The above text gives us an important practical lesson: If you are...
Rabbi Arthur Zanville Steinberg
Portsmouth —Rabbi Arthur Zanville Steinberg, 78, died Sunday, April 10, 2016. He served as the rabbi of Temple Sinai in Portsmouth for 32 years. Rabbi Steinberg was a native of Baltimore and graduated from the University of Maryland in 1959. He was ordained in June...
Robert Edward Rosenfeld
Portsmouth —Robert Edward Rosenfeld, 96, of the 4200 block of Cedar Lane passed away on Monday, April 11, 2016. Born on October 3, 1919 to the late Isadore and Bessie Rosenfeld, he was a proud U.S. Air Force veteran, who owned I. H. Rosenfeld & Son Furniture Store...
Rose Frances Levinson Glasser
Virginia Beach —Rose Frances Levinson Glasser, 101, died on April 20, 2016. Blessed with a century of life, Rose Frances didn’t waste a moment. Her natural curiosity combined with her drive, led her to be a voracious reader, a world traveler, a good business woman,...
E. Allan Fine
Boca Raton , Fla .—E. Allan Fine, 88, passed away on Tuesday, April 12, 2016. Born in Baltimore, Md., he was the son of the late Jeanette Hecker Fine and Hyman Fine. He worked in the family business (Atlantic Produce) for many years and later was in the insurance...
Rabbi Aron and Rychel Margolin on the engagement of their son, Levi Margolin to Aidel Gestetner. Levi is director of marketing for Birthright Israel: MAYANOT. Aidel is a licensed tour guide in Israel. They both currently live in Jerusalem, will get married in June and...
Keano Rich, along with his Symposium teammates, Evan Allan and Ryan Nguyen — a l l freshmen at the Mathematics and Science Academy at Ocean Lakes High School— for winning first place in the Senior Division of Behavioral and Social Science category of the 65th Annual...
Judge Marc Jacobson to receive honorary doctorate from Old Dominion University at graduation ceremony
Saturday, May 7 Old Dominion University will present Judge Marc Jacobson with an honorary doctorate at its graduation ceremony next month. Jacobson served as a judge in the Commonwealth of Virginia for 14 years after practicing law for 32 years. He sat on the Norfolk...
Ghent Your Game On: Ohef Sholom Temple’s fun raising event
Saturday, April 30, 11 pm O’Connor Brewing Co., 211 West 24th Street, Norfolk Ohef Sholom Temple’s (OST) fundraising event, Ghent Your Game On (GYGO), is “our attempt to meet our community where they are,” says Karen Fine, committee chair. “We wanted,” she says, “to...