Virginia Beach—Janet A. Resh peacefully passed away on July 3, 2021, in Virginia Beach, Virginia surrounded by her loving family. Janet was born in Washington, D.C. on March 24, 1923 to Jacob and Anne Sterman. Upon graduating from High school, Janet worked in the war...
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Isabel Lohre Blumenthal
Brewster, N.Y.—Isabel Blumenthal passed away on June 14, 2021 in Brewster, N.Y. where she had lived since November 2015. She previously lived in Glen Burnie, Md., Norfolk, Va. and New York City. Isabel Carolyn Lohre was born on May 7, 1929 to Cantor Harvin Lohre and...
Jean Fried Jaffe
Virginia Beach—Jean Fried Jaffe, who asked everyone to call her Mimi, passed away peacefully on June 11, 2021. Married to her college sweetheart Jerry (Pop) for 70 years, Mimi was devoted to family. In her 91 years, she was most proud of their three children: Susan...
Juliet A. Katz
Virginia Beach—Juliet A. Katz, 100 years old, passed away June 19, 2021. Julie was the daughter of Frank and Josephine Abramson, and she was raised by aunt and uncle Aaron and Ida Levinsky in New York City. As a young woman, Julie attended college, then later worked...
Steve L. Schatzman
Virginia Beach—At age 77, Steve Schatzman passed away June 13, 2021. He is predeceased by his wife Georgia and his children, Shari, Wendy and Marni and grandson Sammy. Funeral services were held in Boca Raton, Fla. with shiva in New York. A commemoration was held in...
Janet Malcolm, famed New Yorker writer whose family fled the Nazis
The influential journalist Janet Malcolm, whose family changed their last name after fleeing the Nazis during World War II, died Wednesday, June 16 at 86 of lung cancer. Malcolm, who was known for her incisive interviews and innovative New Journalism style, wrote for...
CBS News reporter Bob Simon
Bob Simon, the Emmy Award-winning CBS News and 60 Minutes correspondent, was killed in a car accident in New York City. Simon, who covered nearly every major overseas conflict and news story since the late 1960s, was a passenger in a hired car on Wednesday, Feb. 11...
Polish survivor Roman Frister, a former Haaretz editor
WARSAW, Poland (JTA)—Roman Frister, a Holocaust survivor who was a former editor of Haaretz, has died. Frister, a dual Polish and Israeli citizen, died Monday, Feb. 9 in Poland. He was 87. Frister survived the Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps. He was born...
Beatrice Steinhouser Legum
Will iamsburg —Beatrice Steinhouser Legum passed away peacefully on Dec. 2, 2014. Known to everyone as Ms. B, she was a lifelong resident of Williamsburg. A celebration of life was held at Temple Beth El in Williamsburg.
Sam C. Brown, Jr.
Virginia Beach —Sam C. Brown, Jr., 89, a native of Charleston, S.C., peacefully passed away Thursday afternoon, Feb. 12, 2015. He was born September 28, 1925, in Charleston, S. C., the oldest son of Sam and Hannah Brown. A childhood spent on the beaches and waters of...
Congregation Beth Chaverim’s Rabbi Israel Zoberman
Congregation Beth Chaverim’s Rabbi Israel Zoberman with a United Nations soldier from Denmark on the Golan Heights’ Mt. Bental at a U. N. force observation post. The post overlooks the abandoned Syrian town of Kuneitra. Rabbi Zoberman participated in a Solidarity...
The Maccabeats to perform live
Sunday, March 29, 3 pm, Simon Family JCC The Maccabeats are not “your grandfather’s synagogue choir,” according to their website, but their ideology and identity play an important part in their performances, as they are “strongly committed to the integration of...
Humanitarian Award of the Virginia Center For Inclusive Communities 2015 recipients: Leah and Richard Waitzer
Wednesday, March 25, 5:45 pm, Norfolk Waterside Marriott Leah and Richard Waitzer are the nominees to receive the prestigious Humanitarian Award at the Tidewater chapter of the Virginia Center For Inclusive Communities’ 51st annual dinner. The award is presented to...
Temple Israel Gala to pay homage to Jewish jazz giants Local bandleader brings story of survival to event
Sunday, April 19, 5:45 pm Artie Shaw, Harry James and Benny Goodman. They were the kings of swing in the 1930s and 40s, and they were all Jewish. Temple Israel will recall their contributions to one of the greatest eras in American musical history with “Let’s Shwing:...
Hundreds of costumed young adults expected at Purimpalooza
Saturday, March 7, 8 pm, Sandler Family Campus “The party of the year.” Purimpalooza hasn’t taken place yet, but the buzz from those who have gone to community-wide, Jewish, young adult holiday parties like this one in the past five years, say that it shouldn’t be...
American with a Jewish Accent series: The Rag Race: The Schmatta Trade
Sunday, March 1, 2pm, Jewish Museum and Cultural Center Dr. Adam Mendelsohn, associate professor of Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston, will speak about “The Rag Race: the Schmatta Trade,” as the final lecture in the Jewish Museum and Cultural Center’s...
Why Israelis will save their enemies: Israel Today Forum—Dr. Ofer Merin
Sunday, March 15, 7:30 pm, Sandler Family Campus When faced with a decision over which patient to provide medical treatment to first—an alleged Hamas terrorist in critical condition or one of his victims whose wounds were less severe— the medical staff at an Israeli...
Tidewater Together brings new scholar and ideas
The Tidewater Together community weekend held last year in March was optimistically billed as “the first annual.” Positive thinking and feedback, as well as audiences totaling more than 1,000 over the four days of events, ensured that a “second annual” would be held...
Community Relations Council’s 3rd Annual Israel Poster Contest for first through 12th graders
Deadline for submission: Monday, March 2, 4:30 pm Students throughout Tidewater are eligible to participate in United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Community Relations Council’s third annual Israel Poster Contest. Each student should choose one fact from the list...
As 4,000 Jewish teens gather in Atlanta, funders urge more support for programs
ATLANTA (JTA)—More than 3,000 teenagers from multiple Jewish youth groups gathered in Atlanta over President’s weekend for a series of events aimed at strengthening Jewish identity among teens and rallying philanthropic support for such programs. The main attractions...
Across Oceans and Generations—A Jewish History of Tidewater, VA
Documentary of Tidewater Jewish community’s past, present and future Across Oceans and Generations—A Jewish History of Tidewater, VA Sunday, March 8, 4 pm, Sandler Family Campus A keen interest in history and the desire for what she thought would be a relatively small...
Date With the State 2015
More than 30 members of the local Jewish community traveled to the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond to be part of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Community Relations Council delegation for the annual Jewish Advocacy Day on Feb. 4. The Tidewater...
Denmark synagogue attack seen as ‘wake-up call’
(JTA) - From the window of the Jewish Community of Copenhagen’s crisis center, Finn Schwarz can see his country changing before his eyes. Hours after the slaying of a guard outside the Danish capital’s main synagogue early Sunday morning, Feb. 15, two police officers...
Did Purim really happen?
It’s difficult to learn accurate history from the rabbis of the Mishnah and Talmud. “The early Rabbis did not save any historical sources besides the Bible for the biblical or post-biblical periods,” states Hebrew University Professor Moshe Herr. A perfect example of...
Luise Rainer, Jewish Hollywood star
NEW YORK (JTA)—Luise Rainer, the first actress to win back-to-back Academy Awards, died on Tuesday, Dec. 30 at her London home. She was 104. The daughter of a middle-class Jewish family that later escaped Nazi Germany, Rainer was born in Dusseldorf in 1910 and later...
David Landau, Haaretz editor and JTA’s longtime Israel bureau chief
David Landau, a British-born Israeli journalist who held top positions at several English-language publications, including JTA, has died. Landau died of brain cancer in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Jan. 27. He was 67. Landau, who made aliyah in 1970, served part time as...