Originally published in the March 22, 2021 issue. A conversation with the ADL and former mayor of Charlottesville Thursday, April 1, 7:30 pm, Temple Israel’s First Thursday, Zoom, free Batya Glazer Doron Ezickson, Anti-Defamation League’s Mid-Atlantic/Midwest...
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Lorraine Fink art auction, sale, and exhibit
Originally published in the March 22, 2021 issue. Monday, April 12–Thursday, April 22 On View: Leon Family Gallery, Sandler Family Campus Auction and sale: www.JewishVA.org/LFinkArt Lorraine Fink is generously donating 99 original works of art for auction and sale...
As life lessons go, virtual Bar Mitzvahs make the path to ‘adulting’ real, fast
Originally published in the March 8, 2021 issue. Lisa Richmon In 2020, Carin Joffe Simon and husband Mike Simon planned the first Tidewater virtual Bar Mitzvah for their son, Nate. When Betty Ann Levin watched the event, which was livestreamed on Facebook from their...
Pandemic-poked weddings: A new altar, an un-altered dress, and an altered state of mind
Originally published in the March 8, 2021 issue. Lisa Richmon If you think the new sitcom, Call Your Mother is about children avoiding their mothers during the pandemic, you would be half right. The show, starring Kyra Sedgwick, is based, however, on life after the...
Hayden Caplan’s mitzvah project: Gaming for Gold for a friend
Originally published in the March 8, 2021 issue. As Hayden Caplan prepared for his upcoming bar mitzvah in May, there was no question what he wanted to do for his mitzvah project. A friend from his pre-school days at Hebrew Academy of Tidewater, Benjamin Goldberg, an...
Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America with author Debbie Cenziper
Originally published in the March 8, 2021 issue. Monday, March 15, 12 pm In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi roster from 1945 that no Western investigator had ever seen. The long-forgotten...
Shirley “Honey” Biberman
Norfolk —On April 4, 2015, Shirley “Honey” Biberman passed away. She was the devoted mother of Dr. David Zolet, Linda Zolet, Robin Zolet-Fink, S. Matthew Biberman and grandmother of Jacob Klau, Morris Zolet, Lucy Biberman, and Vincent Biberman. The funeral was held at...
Renen Katz and Amanda Perlman Katz of Loxahatchee, Fla. on the birth of their daughter on August 12, 2014, Ella Mia Katz. Ella is the granddaughter of Donald Katz of Stuart, Fla. and Elisa Ellin of blessed memory and Andrea Perlman and Perry Perlman, also of...
Beth El’s 165th — Sunday, May 3, 7 pm
Congregation Beth El will celebrate its 165th anniversary with a free and open to the community commemorative program. The program, Beth El Norfolk 1850–2015: What We Built, is made possible in memory of Maxwell and Burnette Zedd by their children, Kay Kesser and...
Passing in Review, a new book by Hal Sacks, Reception and presentation
Thursday, May 7, 6:30 pm, Sandler Family Campus Long-time Book Review Editor for Jewish News, Hal Sacks will discuss his latest book, Passing in Review. The collection of reviews and essays spans more than 30 years of Sacks’ contributions to the newspaper. After the...
YAD Talks: Big gains, huge losses, lessons learned with former Madoff trader, Andrew Cohen
Thursday, April 30, 6 pm, Bite Restaurant & Catering The stories Andrew Cohen will share at the Spring 2015 YAD Talks networking event could be the basis for a new Netflix Original Series: stellar career success, huge financial gains, early retirement, devastating...
Camp JCC Dive-in Open House
Sunday, May 31, 1–4 pm An afternoon of fun and frolicking is planned for the Simon Family JCC pool and fields. Enjoy some wacky water games and a slip ’n’ slide and dive into Camp JCC, including a GAGA tournament with prizes. Play as a team or as an individual. Games...
Celebrate Israel Series features the film, Jerusalem
Thursday, April 23, 6 pm and 8 pm, Virginia Beach Aquarium See Jerusalem through the eyes of three different teenage girls in the brilliant documentary at the Giant Screen Theater at the Virginia Beach Aquarium. This event is the second in the Simon Family JCC’s...
Women cancer survivors honored at 4th Annual Pink Tea
Sunday, May 4, 2 pm Temple Emanuel will honor women cancer survivors at its annual Pink Tea. The event raises funds to support the Beach Health Clinic of Virginia Beach, an organization that provides mammograms for women who do not have any medical insurance. The...
David Broza performs for Celebrate Israel
Thursday, May 21, 7 pm, Sandler Center for the Performing Arts For nearly 40 years, Israeli superstar David Broza has been considered one of the most dynamic and vibrant performers in the singer/songwriter world. Broza will perform live at Virginia Beach’s Sandler...
Spring into Healthy Living!
Joan Lunden–Sunday, April 26, 2 pm Run Roll or Stroll–Sunday, May 3, 8 am 11th Annual Run, Roll or Stroll Have you seen the sunrise at the Oceanfront lately? I have! For the last seven years, a group of dedicated JFS board members, employees and other volunteers have...
Literacy: How do preschoolers develop reading skills?
Teaching literacy in preschool involves helping students develop readiness skills to read and comprehend. As early as two years old, children begin building these skills. Strelitz Early Childhood Center teaches literacy, preparing students for kindergarten and the...
Summer Institute for Jewish Living holds 40-year reunion
In the summer of 1974, 15 local teenagers experienced an amazing month-long adventure in Israel. The trip followed a month of Judaic study taught by two Brandeis University graduate students and Hebrew taught by Froike Inbar, Community Shaliach, at the Jewish...
A documentation of events surrounding the Nazi pogroms
75 Jahre Reichskristallnacht Anna Rosmus Grafenau: Samples, 2013 157 pages Anna Rosmus, the German author and public intellectual, is well-known to quite a few in the Jewish community of Hampton Roads since the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Old...
Historical anniversaries, the struggle for racial equality and Pesach
I’ll start by sharing with you that yesterday, April 9, was a special day for Miriam and me. It was our 37th anniversary. We were married just before Pesach in 1978, and since that date often coincides with Pesach, we’ve celebrated with lots of macaroons and matzah...
When El Al flew to Tehran
9 other things you may not know about Israel’s past (JTA)—Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, falls on April 23. In honor of the Jewish state’s 67th birthday, we present, in no particular order, 10 little- known aspects of its history. 1. El Al used to fly to...
The Tom Hofheimer Medical Mission
Supporting myriad programs, including Magical Chairs, clinics and exchanges The first part of this series ( Jewish News, March 23, 2015) described how the Tom Hofheimer Fund brought Israeli reconstructive plastic surgeons to Tidewater to study with local specialists....
Pew study: Muslims to overtake American Jews by 2050
NEW YORK (JTA)—In 20 years, there will be more Muslims in North America than Jews, according to a new Pew Research Center report. The report, which was released Thursday, April 2 also found that more American Jews are leaving Judaism than non-Jews are joining the...
The ick factor
One of the most difficult things a rabbi or cantor has to do is to look into the eyes of a 12-yearold child and tell him that, because of the bar mitzvah date his parents chose two years earlier, his Torah portion will deal with topics such as scaly white skin...
Ben & Jerry’s charoset and 10 more Passover ice cream ideas
A few weeks after Ben & Jerry’s founders indicated that marijuana- infused ice cream may one day join its product line, the company’s kosher-for-Passover charoset flavor has been generating buzz. In case your memories of last year’s seder are blurred by too many...
Scrambled Egg Potato Muffins for a kid-friendly Passover breakfast
Passover is bad enough without having to feed your kids, too. And breakfast during Passover can be pretty tricky: no toast, no oatmeal, no (palatable) cereal and no traditional syrup-drenched pancakes. Aside from making matzah brei every day, the options are somewhat...