Originally published in the April 12, 2021 issue. Aulcie at the Drive-In: Sunday, April 18, 8 pm Sandler Family Campus, $12 per person Robyn Sidersky Do you remember the Virginia Squires, Norfolk’s very own basketball team? The American Basketball Association team...
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NYC Cantor Azi Schwartz looks forward to sharing his love of Jewish liturgical music with Norfolk area audience
Originally published in the April 12, 2021 issue. Sunday, April 25, 7:30 pm, $36 Joel Rubin He is the 40-year-old grandson of four Holocaust survivors from Hungary and Czechoslovakia who all emigrated to Israel where they met after the War. One grandfather was a...
Kehillat Bet Hamidrash/Kempsville Conservative Synagogue to host Art Auction
Originally published in the April 12, 2021 issue. Sunday, May 2, 7 pm Tired of looking at the same walls during this time at home? See an empty spot just calling out for a new piece of art? KBH has the solution! Kehillat Bet Hamidrash (KBH)—the Kempsville...
A year of Jewish learning
Originally published in the March 22, 2021 issue. Sierra Lautman A year ago this month, the world entered the pandemic. Amazingly, Jewish organizations of all sizes, including United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, have seen increases in the numbers of engaged...
Park Avenue Synagogue Cantor Azi Schwartz in concert for Temple Israel
Originally published in the March 22, 2021 issue. Sunday, April 25, 7:30 pm, Zoom, $36 Not many clergy are considered YouTube sensations, but Azi Schwartz, senior cantor of Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City, has become just that, thanks to his creative and moving...
Tidewater Chavurah: Who is ready for weekly Torah study?
Originally published in the March 22, 2021 issue. Tuesdays, 7 pm, Zoom Rabbi Ellen Jaffe-Gill of Tidewater Chavurah, now leads a weekly Torah study on Tuesday evenings. Discussion focuses on the parshat ha-shavua, the Torah portion that will be read on the following...
David Broza performs for Celebrate Israel
Thursday, May 21, 7 pm Sandler Center for the Performing Arts Israeli superstar David Broza is considered one of the most dynamic and vibrant performers in the singer/songwriter world. Broza will perform live at Virginia Beach’s Sandler Center for the Performing Arts...
HAT students participate in Annual Science Fair
Living in a wonderful world of science with so many unanswered questions, Hebrew Academy of Tidewater fourth and fifth grade students intended to answer some of those questions at this year’s Annual Science Fair. Students wowed NASA judges, parents and guests with the...
Celebrate Israel speaker Gidi Grinstein stirs audiences
Gidi Grinstein enlightened and inspired those who heard him speak at one of three presentations on Monday, April 20: a luncheon for Hebrew speakers, a reception at the Simon Family JCC for community leaders and Celebrate Israel sponsors, and a community-wide event at...
And the winner is…. Mushky Brashevitzky
Based on one of 12 facts, Mushky Brashevitzky’s design secured the most votes from the global, online voting community to win the Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s third annual Israel Poster contest. Mushky chose the fact,...
The Strelitz Early Childhood Center visits Israel
Each spring, the Strelitz Early Childhood Center students take a trip to Israel. Well, they sort of take a trip. They pack their bags, get on a plane, have their passport stamped and travel all over the country in one morning. Of course, the “trip” is pretend, but the...
Don’t pass on this one
Passing in Review 30 Years of Literary Criticism and Articles from Jewish News of Southeastern Virginia Hal Sacks Edited by Terri Denison Parke Press, 2015 248 pages, ISBN 978-0-9883969-6-8 Hal Sacks knows a lot—about a lot of things. This local treasure of a...
Joan Lunden shares her journey
Be enthusiastic. Always give the best you’ve got. Self-advocate. Those are just a few of the pieces of advice that Joan Lunden gave the audience of the packed Johnson Theater at Norfolk Academy on Sunday, April 26. Lunden, the former host of ABC’s Good Morning...
A Mother’s Day reflection on choices
When I was a little girl until well into college, I didn’t dream of weddings, having children or a house with a white picket fence. I wanted to be a criminal defense lawyer and live in Chicago and defend big time scoundrels. That was my fairytale. It was a bit film...
Time for Women
Dear Readers, Since Mother’s Day is celebrated in May, this month always feels like an appropriate time to focus on women. While being a mom is without a doubt one of the most rewarding, loving, exhilarating and important roles a woman can undertake, it’s not the only...
Recycling toilet water and four other Israeli answers to California’s drought
TEL AVIV (JTA)—For help facing its worst drought in centuries, California should look to a country that beat its own chronic water shortage: Israel. Until a few years ago, Israel’s wells seemed like they were always running dry. TV commercials urged Israelis to...
Thoughts on 2015 Tidewater Together speaker Rabbi Sharon Brous
Rabbi Sharon Brous was the guest teacher at the annual Tidewater Together program last month. Named one of America’s most influential rabbis by Newsweek, The Forward and The Jewish Week, she offered a prayer at President Obama’s 2012 Inauguration ceremony and...
Israeli and Jewish groups on frontline of Nepal earthquake relief efforts
After a devastating earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hit the impoverished mountainous country of Nepal last month, killing more than 5,000 people, Israeli and Jewish humanitarian and governmental organizations assumed their traditional role on the...
To choose a heroine
Today I voted. For a woman. Today I joined the movement “Woman on 20s,” which is encouraging the president to have a woman’s face replace Andrew Jackson’s on the $20 bill. I was taken by this idea for the same reason as hundreds of thousands of Americans—It’s time. As...
Bernice Tannenbaum, longtime Hadassah and Zionist leader
Bernice Tannenbaum, a former national president of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America who earned the group’s highest honor for her legacy of contributions, has died. Tannenbaum, a former JTA vice president and national secretary, died Monday, April...
Normal Leventhal, philanthropist and leader in Boston’s development
BOSTON (JTA)—Normal Leventhal, a major figure in Boston’s development and a visionary leader and philanthropist in Jewish communal life, has died. Leventhal died Sunday, April 5 at age 97. Leventhal, who cofounded Beacon Companies with his brother Robert, is...
Stanley Willner
Virginia Beach —Stanley Willner of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. and Virginia Beach, passed away peacefully on March 31, 2015 at the age of 94. Donations to a favorite charity. To learn more about the remarkable life of Stanley Willner go to www.sw-expow.com.
Margaret “Jimmie” Coplon Semel
Virginia Beach—Margaret “Jimmie” Coplon Semel, age 93, of the Beth Sholom Home, died early Tuesday morning, April 13, of kidney failure. Daughter of the late Rose and Joseph Coplon, Jimmie was a life-long resident of Norfolk and the 1940 salutatorian of Maury High...
Lisa Goldsticker Lane
Norfolk — Lisa Goldsticker Lane, 49, died Sunday, April 5, 2015. She was a native of Norfolk and was preceded in death by her father Murray Goldsticker. She was a member of Temple Israel and was a former salesperson with Humana. Survivors include her husband Russell...
Dr. David Benson Kruger
NORFOLK—Dr. David Benson Kruger, 88, passed away on Sunday, April 5, 2015. He was born to Abraham and Eleanor (Krukin) Kruger at the family home in the Berkley section of Norfolk. David graduated from Maury High School before serving in the US Army during WWII . After...
Pearl Hacken Glassman
Virginia Beach —Pearl Hacken Glassman, born August 17, 1914, passed away peacefully in her home at the Beth Sholom Terrace on March 26, 2015. She was a native of New York City. She had a great exuberance for life. Pearl loved the beauty of the four seasons. She loved...