Performances highlight Holocaust Reflections events November 4–7, Ferguson Center for the Arts, Free For the first time on an opera stage, OperaCNU will debut The Trial of God at Christopher Newport University’s Ferguson Center for the Arts next month. Commissioned by...
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Leon Family Gallery: Then, Now, & Looking Forward: Lorraine Fink Retrospective extended through November
Tribes, Tribesmen, For the Young at Heart. Silkscreens, collages, photographs, sculptures, and more than 100 ink and watercolor drawings. Dancers, musicians, masked forms, and women morphing into birds. Now in her 10th decade, Lorraine Fink creates works that bear...
Israel Today: Visiting Israeli glass artist Dafna Kaffeman
Saturday, November 6, 7:30 pm, Chrysler Museum’s Perry Glass Studio The Jewish Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, Simon Family JCC, Embassy of Israel and Community Partners’ 11th Annual Israel Today, along with the Chrysler...
Ethel Arrington
Norfolk—Ethel Arrington, age 72, passed away on Sunday, October 10, 2021. She is survived by a brother, Larry Sonkin, a sister, Harriet Dunlap, brother-in-law, Paul Dunlap, and multiple cousins. Ethel was a graduate of Old Dominion University with a bachelor of...
Jill Renee Haverson
Virginia Beach—Jill Renee Haverson passed away on October 1, 2021 at the age of 55. She was born in Norfolk, Va. to her parents Sybil Friedberg and Jeffrey G. Haverson who both predeceased her. Jill graduated from Kempsville High School in 1984, then after college...
Herbert Alan Levin
Boca Raton, Fla.—Lieutenant Commander Herbert Alan Levin USN, Retired, passed away peacefully in the early evening hours of October 8, 2021, in Boca Raton, Fa., with his beloved wife Carol and her loving daughter Lauren at his bedside. His battle with chronic illness...
Scholar in Residence program connects students to the Jewish community
Last fall, Hebrew Academy instituted a Local Scholar in Residence program to enhance the Jewish education experience by connecting students to the broader Jewish community. Fifth graders enjoyed visits from local clergy who opened up these young minds with various...
Statewide Jewish community praises the General Assembly for forceful condemnation of the anti-Israel bds movement
RICHMOND, VA—(March 9, 2016) The Jewish Communities across the Commonwealth jointly thanked the General Assembly for its bipartisan support of House Joint Resolution 177, a forceful condemnation of the discriminatory and anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions...
Tidewater women have the world at their Doorstep
February brought the Jewish women of Tidewater together to hear from two different, but equally fascinating emissaries. The Women’s Cabinet Outreach and Engagement Committee welcomed Zoya Schvartzman to its second in a series of three “PLUS ONE” events on Wednesday,...
Prospect of Trump nomination poses dilemma for Jewish Republicans
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Donald Trump’s surging candidacy has sent shivers through the ranks of the Republican elite and created deep anxiety among Jewish Republicans, some of whom are so unnerved they are prepared to vote for Hillary Clinton if Trump wins the nomination. Yet...
Living in Norfolk, living in Shushan
I know when Purim time comes around that it is a time for joy and silliness —and I enjoy it as much as anybody. However, I also regret that our silliness celebration often masks (pun intended) the fact that Purim is our holiday. What do I mean by that? Purim is the...
Cape Henry Collegiate’s Global Connections students prepare for trip to Israel
“So, what are your views on Donald Trump?” asks Joyce Schwartz, an English literature teacher at Ramot Yam School in Michmoret, Israel. Her students stare at the Skype screen in silence, awaiting an answer to one of the most politically loaded questions of the moment....
Herbert I. Zetlin
Norfolk —Herbert I. Zetlin, 61, son of Betty Zetlin and the late Henry Zetlin, died on February 2, 2016. Herbert followed the beat of his own drum throughout his life. In addition to his mother, he is survived by his three sisters, Barbara, Patti and Ruth. A funeral...
Hattie Edna Rosenthal Hechtkopf
Virginia Beach —Hattie Edna Rosenthal Hechtkopf, age 101, died peacefully on February 8, 2016 at a local hospital. Hattie was born May 14, 1914, the daughter of Pincus and Bertha Rosenthal in New York City. In 1934, Hattie married the love of her life, Jack Hechtkopf,...
Sol Axel
Virginia Beach —Sol Axel, 102, of Virginia Beach, formerly of Richmond, passed away Thursday February 4, 2016. He was preceded in death by his first wife of 26 years, Marjorie Koblenzer Axel and a son, Mitchell Corey Axel. He is survived by his daughter Madge Lee...
Orthodox Jewish trader, immigrant Harvard grad
NEW YORK (JTA)—A 38-year-old Orthodox Jewish man was killed when a construction crane collapsed on his car in Manhattan. David Wichs, an immigrant from Prague, in what is now the Czech Republic, was standing outside his parked car Friday, Feb. 5 when the giant crane...
Beth Sholom Village easily passes inspection
Five state surveyors walked into Beth Sholom Village’s The Berger Goldrich Home unannounced for an annual state survey earlier this month. The three-day inspection of The Home received three minor isolated tags (deficiencies). The average number of tags for a...
Operation Hamantaschen: Why it means so much to the soldiers
Sunday, March 6, 11 am–2 pm, Sandler Family Campus Being deployed overseas presents a soldier or sailor with difficult situations, no matter their location. In addition to being separated from family, they’re stripped of all normal creature comforts, living on mostly...
Olga Meshoe: attorney, consultant, human rights activist, CEO of DEISI, and loyal Israel advocate is headed to Tidewater
Wednesday, March 2, 7:30 pm, Sandler Family Campus South African Olga Meshoe plans to tell as many people in Tidewater as possible why Israel is not an apartheid state. She is the second speaker in the Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of...
A Pluralistic Introduction to Judaism
Thursdays, beginning March 3, 6–7 pm, Simon Family JCC The Hampton Roads Board of Rabbis and Cantors, in partnership with the Simon Family JCC, is offering a new free weekly course, A Pluralistic Introduction to Judaism. Designed for those seeking to learn more about...
Registration is open for Camp JCC
At camp JCC, summer camp is more than just a place where children go when school is out. Campers discover, grow, and learn. Each week, a new theme is introduced with activities to match. Register for one week or the entire summer. Camp lasts from June 20 through...
What Happens at Purim, Does NOT Stay at Purim!
Saturday, March 19, 8 pm Or at least it probably won’t—not this year anyway. UJFT’s Young Adult Division is getting ready for its annual Purim Party. This year, it’s Las Vegas style. The 2016 YAD Purim Party promises Elvis impersonators, showgirls, casino tables,...
The Sonenshine Lecture Series features Michael Brenner
Old Dominion University’s Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding will feature Michael Brenner, the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies at American University in Washington, D.C., as this year’s Sonenshine Lecture Series speaker for...
CRC’s 4th annual Israel Poster Contest for 1st–12th graders
Last call for entries: Deadline is Monday, Feb. 29, 4:30 pm The Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater invites area 1st through 12th graders to participate in their fourth annual Israel Poster Contest. Students and teachers can find a...
Partners in Torah now in Tidewater
Mondays, 8 pm, Simon Family JCC Anyone who happened to be at the Simon Family JCC on Monday, Feb. 1 might have caught a glimpse of Dr. Herb Brewer studying Jewish history and philosophy with Rabbi Shmuel Katz of the Norfolk Kollel, or attorney Ken Wilson, a member of...
JMCC Lecture Series presents Eric Mazur
The S.S. Quanza: Jewish Refugees and the Port of Norfolk. Sunday, March 6, 2 pm In 1940, one year after the St. Louis and its “Voyage of the Damned,” a Portuguese steamer brought fewer than 100 refugees from Europe to Norfolk, Va. Most of the passengers were Jews, and...