BRANFORD—Charles Edward Barr, 92, passed away on March 13, 2021. Born in Washington, DC, raised in Norfolk, Va., he resided in Baltimore, Md., South Orange, N.J., Manhattan, NYC, and ultimately retired to the Connecticut Shoreline in Branford. Charles graduated in...
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Gale Catherine Garner
Norfolk—Gale Catherine Garner was born during a wind storm in Elkton, Md. to Mable Catherine and William Joseph Garner on March 2, 1941. She was raised in Elkton and Southampton County, Va. Gale left this world on February 11, 2021 after fighting a progressive illness...
Lawrence J. Goldrich
Virginia Beach—Lawrence J. Goldrich, 98, passed away at his home following a courageous battle with Parkinson’s disease. He is survived by his wife, Jan T. Goldrich; children, Patricia, Andrew, Vicki, and Lauren; and grandchildren, Samantha and Mikaela; his nephew,...
Michael J. Glaser
Virginia Beach—Michael J. Glaser passed away on March 29, 2021 in Virginia Beach, Va. Care has been entrusted to Altmeyer Funeral Home Southside Chapel.
M. Barron Kesser
Virginia Beach—M. Barron Kesser, 79, passed away on Tuesday, March 23, 2021, with his hand clasped in his wife’s and his family by his side. Barry was a real estate developer and appraiser by trade, but a husband, father, grandfather, brother, and uncle by heart. Born...
Dr. Rubin Kravitz
Virginia Beach—Dr. Rubin Kravitz, 92, passed away Saturday, March 20, 2021. Rubin was born March 22, 1928 to Abe and Lilian Kravitz in Framingham, Massachusetts. He was a graduate of Northeastern University in Boston. Rubin was a son, brother, husband, father and...
Leigh Baltuch receives Endowment Achievement Award
Each year, Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), the organization that unites Jewish Federations and independent Jewish communities throughout the world, presents outstanding leaders with the Endowment Achievement Award. This award is to honor the recipient’s...
Rabbi Zoberman marks 40 years in the rabbinate
An afternoon filled with praise, warmth, dance, song, speeches, proclamations and a packed house, commemorated the 40th anniversary of Rabbi Israel Zoberman’s ordination. On Sunday, June 1, Congregation Beth Chaverim’s sanctuary was standing room only as religious and...
#Firgun: What’s it all about?
During the winter of 2013–2014, I was a participant on a Birthright trip sponsored by the Hillel at Virginia Tech. When I got back to school I knew I wanted to get back to the land of Israel and help develop the country that made me feel so at home. After a bit of...
Hunger Feast: Experiential voyage in Tidewater
Hardly a day goes by when I don’t hear a friend say, “I’m starving” because they haven’t eaten in a couple of hours. I am guilty of it, too. We use this term so lightly because true hunger seems like such a remote problem. We’ve seen the commercials of ‘people in...
Amanda Gladstone is Stein Family College Scholarship’s 2014 recipient
Amanda Gladstone does not know what the term “free time” means. As one of only two Jewish students attending Hickory High School in Chesapeake, she got involved with BBYO to be more connected with her Judaism. And this involvement did not simply entail going to weekly...
Temple Emanuel’s rabbi marks his first year
Last June, Rabbi Marc Kraus arrived in Virginia Beach to become the rabbi at Temple Emanuel. Rabbi Kraus’ wife, Alicia Cohen Kraus, was recently appointed Old Dominion University’s Hillel director. Since their arrival, the couple has hosted more than 120 people for...
A great collection
The 40s: The Story of a Decade The New Yorker Random House, 2014 696 pages, $30.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-64479-8 When Harold Ross, a hard-drinking, card-playing, heavy smoker, conceived of The New Yorker his plan was to create a Manhattan-centered “fifteen-cent comic...
Reflections on a tenacious spirit
Paula’s Window: Papa, the Bielski Partisans and a Life Unexpected Paula Berger, as told to Andrea Jacobs Paula Burger, 2013 ISBN:978-1-938859-47-2 $18 In Paula’s Window, Paula Berger nee Koladicki re-spins the wheel of her life. At age five the Russians occupied the...
ATID program highlights future possibilities for community leaders
The three-year Strategic Plan adopted by the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater in 2011 was developed and instituted to unify and strengthen the Tidewater Jewish community. A key initiative of the plan—one of seven—was to establish a community leadership...
Promoting change in struggling communities Max Sandler’s efforts continue
When the Jewish News caught up with Max Sandler two years ago, the Virginia Beach native was adapting to life in Gondar, Ethiopia. Then 26, Sandler had committed to a year living and working in an environment unlike anything he was familiar with, as a Jewish Service...
A Presbyterian disagrees with his denomination’s vote to divest
Let me begin by saying that I am very disappointed with the decision of the General Assembly to divest from three U.S. companies doing business with Israel. I have a great love and respect for the Jewish people, which began even before I was born! I grew up in a...
UJFT Mission to Israel A journey of a lifetime in just eight days
Seventeen members of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater Summer mission to Israel recently returned from an action-packed and highly emotional visit. The adventure began in Jerusalem, with a breathtaking panoramic view of the city atop of the Tower of David....
Egypt and United States, usual brokers in cease-fires, may not help this time
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Escalations between Hamas and Israel are nothing new. What’s missing this time, analysts say, is the alignment of outside interests that has resolved such fights in the past. Egypt’s government lacks the influence over Hamas of its predecessors and...
A giant remembered: The Lubavitcher Rebbe at his 20th Yahrzeit
“What should I do with them in New York?” The year was 1971. I was a 20-something rabbinical student living in Manhattan. That summer I was in charge of a group of 30 teenagers at Camp Ramah in the Poconos. The high point of the summer was to be five days in New York....
Notes and appreciation: 75th Commemorative issue
By now, the publication commemorating Tidewater’s Jewish community’s 75 organized years should have made it to everyone’s mailboxes, and, hopefully, been opened, browsed though, and maybe even read. We’ve heard from many readers (who must have opened, browsed and...
UJFT provides community with up-to-date information about Operation Protective Edge
The escalating conflict in Israel, with Hamas firing missiles into populated areas from Gaza and the Israel Defense Forces launching Operation Protective Edge to protect its citizens, is changing daily, sometimes even hourly. Members of the Tidewater Jewish community...
White City Shabbat breaks Guinness World Record for largest Shabbat Dinner with 2,226 diners in Tel Aviv
White City Shabbat set the Guinness World Record for the Largest Shabbat Dinner ever at the Hangar 11 in the port of Tel Aviv when 2,226 attendees were officially inscribed in the Guinness World Record for the Largest Shabbat Dinner on Friday night June 13. Notable...
Rabbi Nachman Sudak, head of Chabad U.K.
Rabbi Nachman Sudak, the chief emissary for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in the United Kingdom, has died. Sudak died Sunday, June 15 in London. He was 78. Directed personally by the Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to move to London in 1959, Sudak lived...
Moise Safra, billionaire philanthropist
Moise Safra, a billion aire banker and philanthropist, died at 79 in Brazil. Safra died Sunday, June 15 at the Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital in Sao Paulo two days after suffering a heart attack, according to Reuters. He reportedly had struggled with Parkinson’s...
Jocelyn Rita Levy
Kings Point Delray Beach , Fla .— Jocelyn Rita Levy (formerly of Bayonne, N.J.) 90, passed away in her home Saturday, May 24. Born November 16, 1923, the daughter of Dr. George and Jeanette Leder, she is survived by her children Edythe Murray of Norwich, Conn.; Susan...