(JTA)—Fourteen people, including five members of an Israeli family, were killed Sunday, May 23 in a cable car accident in northern Italy. The accident near Lake Maggiore claimed the lives of husband and wife Amit Biran, 30, and Tal Peleg-Biran, 26; their 2-year-old,...
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In Jewish Heritage Month proclamation, Biden recognizes Emhoff and Schumer— and the rise of anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON (JTA)—In his proclamation marking Jewish American Heritage Month, President Joe Biden cited the precedents set by prominent Jews in politics this year and condemned the nation’s spike in anti-Semitism in recent years. Biden recognized Douglas Emhoff and...
UJFT’S Arts + Ideas has a new dynamic duo
The Arts + Ideas department of United Jewish Federation of Tidewater and Simon Family JCC has a new professional team working on arts programming for the Jewish community—presenting some of the most exciting programs taking place in the region. Jill Grossman is the...
Virtual auction of Lorraine Fink’s donated works reaps funds for visual arts programming
The traditional in-person experience of art might have temporarily receded into the past, but for local artist Lorraine Fink, not even a pandemic could keep her art from the community she loves. Last month, United Jewish Federation of Tidewater and Simon Family JCC...
Holocaust Commission
The Holocaust Commission gratefully acknowledges the following White Rose and Red Rose donors from this year’s annual campaigns to raise funds to continue our vital programming. We could not provide the vital educational support we offer to teachers, the military, and...
Simon Family Passport to Israel helps 8 teens head to Israel this summer
Tidewater Jewish Foundation’s Simon Family Passport to Israel will send eight students to Israel after a yearlong program pause due to the pandemic. “With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the world last year, we simply couldn’t have students travel in the summer of...
Surge in anti-Semitism
From Paris to Germany to Santa Barbara to Atlanta and unfortunately, most places in between, overt anti-Semitism has returned. This month in the U.S., for example, Sears’ website touted rings with swastikas, cars were blown up near synagogues and more than one Jewish...
Dr. Einat Wilf brings young, passionate perspective to year’s first Israel Today Forum
Thursday, Oct. 30, 7:30 pm by Laine M. Rutherford The Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater and community partners present the first speaker in the 2014-2015 Israel Today Forum: the Honorable Einat Wilf at the Sandler Family Campus...
Lech-Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27)
Noah was not destined to be the father of the Jewish people or founder of our faith. Though the most righteous one in his corrupt generation, he failed to reach out and save human lives besides those of his own family. Thus, the rabbis who were aware of Noah’s...
SNL’s Top 10 Jewish moments
by Jana Banin HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (JTA)—Last month marked the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, which is entering its 40th season. Happy birthday guys! To mark the occasion, we’ve assembled a list of our 10 all-time favorite Jewish moments on SNL (they’re like...
Vittorio Dan Segre, Italian writer and political figure
Vittorio Dan Segre, an Italian-Israeli diplomat, a writer and political figure, has died. Segre, a committed Zionist who was also one of the grand old men of contemporary Italian Jewry, died in Turin on Saturday, Sept. 27. He was 92. Born near Turin in 1922, he fled...
Arnold Fine, Jewish Press editor and columnist
Arnold Fine, a Jewish Press columnist and editor who worked at the conservative Orthodox weekly for more than 50 years, has died. Fine, who died Friday, Sept. 5 at 90, was associated with the newspaper for most of its 54-year history. The Jewish Press, based in...
Polly Bergen, actress and singer
Polly Bergen, who won accolades as a film, television and stage actress as well as a singer, has died. Bergen, who starred in the 1962 film Cape Fear, died Saturday, Sept. 20 at her home in Southbury, Conn., from natural causes, publicist Judy Katz told media outlets....
Doris Brody Rosen
NORFOLK—Doris Brody Rosen passed away in her home in Miami Beach on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014. Doris was born in Jamaica N.Y., the daughter of the late Jacob and Esther Brody. She was predeceased by her husband of 64 years, Martin L. Rosen, as well as her sister...
Morey Lipton, M.D
CHARLESTON—Morey Lipton, M.D., 87, of Charleston, S.C., died peacefully at home, surrounded by his loving family on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. Dr. Lipton was born in Charleston at Baker Hospital on Feb. 14, 1927, to Helen Stern Lipton and Samuel Halevi Lipton. He grew...
Ted Neil Goldberg
Virginia Beach –Ted Neil Goldberg, 56, passed away peacefully with loved ones by his side on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. Ted was born in Jamaica Queens, N.Y., the son of Rita and the late Barton Goldberg. He is survived by his mother Rita Goldberg, of Virginia Beach;...
Chelsea Clinton and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky
Chelsea Clinton and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky on becaming the parents of a baby girl. Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky was born on Friday, Sept. 26 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. “Marc and I are full of love, awe and gratitude as we celebrate the birth of our...
Jerome S. Blackman, MD
Jerome S. Blackman, MD, who was elected president of the American College of Psychoanalysts (National Honorary Association of Physician-Psychoanalysts) at its annual meeting held in conjunction with the University of Paris – Diderot, in Paris. Also, his book chapter,...
Celebrate Shabbat Under the Stars
Friday, Oct. 24, 5:30–8 pm Experience a real Shabbat dinner with friends and families and do an activity related to the week’s Parsha, Noah. Also see what the sky looks like that night, and talk about the sky in Noah’s time. Sponsored by the Simon Family JCC Children...
The Devil’s Arithmetic at The Jewish Museum and Cultural Center
Sunday, Oct. 12, 2 pm A 1999 TV movie based on the novel by Jane Yolen, The Devil’s Arithmetic is the first film of The Jewish Museum and Cultural Center’s season. The story of a Jewish girl who, during a Seder, is transported in time to 1942 Poland where she is sent...
Stop & Shop…and support a great cause Jewish Family Service of Tidewater’s Helping Hearts project
Wednesday, Oct. 29, 5–8:30 pm Jewish Family Service of Tidewater is hosting a ‘one-stop shopping event’ featuring numerous direct sales and community vendors. The event will take place at TowneHall (attached to TowneBank), 137 Mount Pleasant Road in Chesapeake. Free...
Visit the Opera at the JCC
Sunday, Oct. 19, 2:30 pm Virginia Opera returns to the Simon Family JCC with a performance for young opera enthusiasts with scenes from The Empress and the Nightingale. This Hans Christian Andersen classic is a children’s story of a small bird sharing her gift of...
“Meet the Candidates” reception for 2nd Congressional District
Hosted by UJFT’s Community Relations Council Monday, Oct. 20, 6:30 pm, Sandler Family Campus by Robin Mancoll In what may be one of only a few appearances together, the two candidates hoping to represent Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District for the next two years in...
To non-Jewish mothers raising Jewish children, the Jewish community says, “Thank You!”
The Mothers Circle program begins Tuesday, Oct. 21, 9 am In the United States, at least half of all Jewish marriages are interfaith marriages. In many such unions, women of different faiths want to understand more about Judaism and raising Jewish children, but may not...
Religion and death and dying discussed at ODU
by Joe Hades, visiting professor at Old Dominion University A lecture on Religion, Ethics and Dying: Controversies and Perspective, took place on Thursday, Sept. 4, at Old Dominion University. Representing the Catholic and Jewish approaches to death and dying, Dr....
Tidewater Lions take a bite out of the Big Apple
by Amy Zelenka, UJFT Women’s Campaign director On a very special Sunday in September, six women from the Tidewater Jewish community met on the eighth floor of the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Times Square. As they quietly greeted one another, the spaces around them began...