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The first Sunday Fun Day on June 13 was a splashing success! More than 200 people enjoyed perfect Tidewater weather, free sweet treats from the Kona Ice truck, impromptu water slam dunk contests, plenty of slide action, and a 2-hour music set by Dave Flagler, director...
Jewish Family Service of Tidewater opened its 65th Biennial meeting on Tuesday, June 8 with an invocation by Rabbi Batya Glazer, United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Jewish Community Relations Council director. Following the invocation, Ellen Rosenblum, JFS board...
Virginia Beach—Cecelia Higger, 95, a resident at Beth Sholom Terrace, passed away peacefully on May 29, 2021 in Virginia Beach. Cecelia was born in Havana, Cuba to Ida Miller and Sam Rebe. At age 19, Cecelia immigrated to America with her parents and baby sister,...
Norfolk—Steven Lieberman, 75, passed away May 27, 2021 at Norfolk Heart Hospital. Steve was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 6, 1946 to Richard and Esther Margolies Lieberman. He moved, with his family, to Roanoke, Va. and several years later to Richmond, Va. He...
Virginia Beach—Irene Ida Banks Mazel, 90, passed away on May 9, 2021. She was born to William and Lottie Banks, one of seven children. She graduated high school at 16 and worked for United Insurance Company from age 17 to 31. She liked to say “I had 47 men under me”...
VIRGINIA BEACH—Kitty Friedenbach Saks, 88, passed away peacefully on Sunday, May 9, 2021 with her family by her side. Kitty lived an extraordinary life, challenged with hardship, struggle, and uncertainty as a young girl, and later as a young adult, blessed with...
Sunday, Feb. 15 9 am–12 pm, or 12–3 pm With the New Year in full swing, some events from last year are back with a new twist. Operation Hamantaschen, a popular collaborative event between the Young Adult Division of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater and the...
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Sunday, Jan. 25, 5:30 pm, TCC Roper Performing Arts Center For his seventh “Mal’s Pick” night at the Virginia Festival of Jewish Film, presented by Alma* and Howard Laderberg, veteran movie and entertainment critic Mal Vincent. has...
Wednesday, Feb. 4, Richmond The annual Community Relations Council’s delegation to Richmond for Jewish Advocacy Day is always a great event, and this year, it is more imperative than ever to have a good community turnout. Between the conflict with Hamas last summer...
Three cantors and a rabbi walk onto the bimah…. No, it is not the start of a bad Yiddish joke. But there were a few of those quips when Congregation Beth El hosted its largest fundraiser on Dec. 14 since its 150th anniversary celebration in 2000. Rabbi Jeffrey...
A place where philanthropy, volunteerism and shared commitment come together to make a difference in the community and around the world, the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater launched a new initiative, The Corporate Partners Circle, in the summer of 2014. Its...
Dispersed, threatened, hidden and reunited, but always a Jew. Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, modern Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox, but always a Jew. Zionist, Secularist, Yiddishist and Culturalist, but always a Jew. A people that have withstood much and...
No one is more surprised that this happened, than I am. Several weeks ago, a speaker came to the B’nai Israel Congregation for a United Jewish Federation of Tidewater-funded Scholar in Residence program. Allison Josephs is the founder of Jewinthecity.com, a...
(JTA)—What made headlines (in Israel, the U.S. and around the world) in 2014? Test your knowledge with JTA’s annual news quiz: 1. Palestinian officials apologized to Czech authorities after the Palestinian envoy to Prague, Jamal Al-Jamal, was killed in an explosion in...
(JTA)—An attack on the Paris headquarters of a French satirical magazine has left at least 12 people dead, including the Jewish caricaturist Georges Wolinski. Two of the reported fatalities in the Wednesday, Jan. 7 attack were police officers, according to the French...
Diaspora Goes on the Defensive Amid Anti-Semitism This has been a tough year for Jews. But you’ve heard that before. I used to attend a synagogue where every Yom Kippur the rabbi, as part of his Israeli Bonds appeal, would begin by bemoaning what a bad year it had...
The two consecutive Parshiyot in the Book of Exodus (Sefer Shemot) of Varea and Bo serve as the most dramatic setting for a contest between two contenders for the divine title. Moses represents the unseen God of Freedom of the enslaved Israelites. In opposition stands...
The parents of Steven Sotloff, the Jewish journalist who was beheaded by a member of ISIS, lit a public menorah in Miami in his memory. Arthur and Shirley Sotloff lit the first candle of Chanukah on Tuesday, Dec. 16 at the Chabad center. “Steve was a proud Jew who...
Photographer Phil Stern, known for his candid shots of Hollywood stars and jazz musicians, has died. Stern died Saturday, Dec. 13 in Los Angeles after an extended hospital stay. He was 95. Stern worked as a combat photographer for the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes...
Norfolk—Marion Bette Segal passed away peacefully in her home on Dec. 5, 2014 in Long Grove, Ill. She was born in Atlantic City N.J. on Jan 9, 1922 to Israel and Augusta Brown of blessed memory. Bette lived in Philadelphia as a child before the family moved to the...
Norfolk — Solomon Ponizovskiy, 82, died Nov. 28, 2014 in Sentara Norfolk General Hospital from multiple myeloma. He was born July 8, 1932 in Kiev, Ukraine. In 1941 when Nazis advanced to occupy Ukraine, his family was fortunate to be evacuated to Ural Mountains...
Virginia Beach —Harry Polay, 93, died Dec. 3, 2014. Mr. Polay was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. to the late Rubin and Eva Kramer Polay. He was a member of Norfolk Masonic Lodge #1 for over 50 years and the Khedive Shrine, where he served as the director of the Shrine Golf...
Norfolk — Gertrude “Trudy” Jacobs Friedman, 82, died Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 in her residence. She was a New York native and was the daughter of the late Aaron Jacobs and Sophia Freeman Sutton and was preceded in death by her husband Gilbert Reuben Friedman. She...
Charlene and David Cohen on the engagement of their daughter, Donna to Asher Kells of Northern Virginia. Donna received a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park and a MA in mental health from New York University. She is a...
Eve Sacha Burton-Poteet, RN, BSN, BSHCM, on her promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Commander, USN. Her father, Commander Joshua Jacob Nelson, (Retired), promoted her. Married to Scott Poteet, they have two children, Josh 11 and Leah 7, who both attended Strelitz...
Jeffrey A. Swartz, a partner at Swartz, Taliaferro, Swartz & Goodove in Norfolk, who was selected for Virginia Business magazine’s “Virginia’s Legal Elite” for 2014 in the category of Criminal Defense. Swartz was selected by his peers and members of the Virginia...