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Yom Hashoah
Guest speaker: Marion Weinzweig Thursday, April 8, 6:45 pm Via live stream from Ohef Sholom Temple, on the Holocaust Commission’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/holcommission. Join United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Holocaust Commission’s annual Yom Hashoah...
Happy Passover
Passover usually marks the start of spring and a reminder to celebrate redemption, hope, and renewal. Now, as we begin to emerge from one of the most challenging years of our lifetime, we see the possibilities of real celebration in our near future. For Jewish...
Rep. Elaine Luria states opposition to Iranian nuclear program in resolution and letter
Congresswoman Elaine Luria is the primary sponsor of one piece of legislation condemning Iran’s nuclear program. A bipartisan group of House members joined Luria earlier this month to introduce the resolution, which condemns Iran’s decision to enrich uranium to 20%...
Lorraine Fink art auction, sale, and exhibit
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 with all proceeds benefiting visual arts programming...
Investing in the intangibles
Children, teens, and their parents have been in a “virtual” world for more than one year and the social pressures, academic stresses, and lack of real-world experiences are taking their toll. Parents will do almost anything to help their children succeed, whether with...
Zohar Ben Moshe recognized as Jewish Educator of the Year
The 2014 Jewish Education Night awards ceremony included the awarding of Jewish Educator of the Year to Zohar Ben Moshe, Hebrew Academy of Tidewater’s Judaic studies teacher. Jewish Education Night is an annual event that pays tribute to all Jewish educators in the...
Guess Who’s Coming to Shabbas wraps up first year
Congregation Beth El has many programs that are focused on building community within the congregation. One of the newest and most successful of these programs completed its first year with the fourth edition of “Guess Who’s Coming to Shabbas” on Friday, May 16. The...
Marilyn Moranha and the Senior Club at the JCC
The Mary and Avalon S. Krukin Award for Senior Adults was presented to Marilyn Moranha at the Simon Family JCC’s annual meeting on Monday, May 19. Morhana received the award because of the time and energy she devotes to the seniors at the JCC. This is her sixth year...
Planning for the future
Estate planning is the process by which an individual or family arranges for the administration and transfer of assets in anticipation of their incapacitation or death. When contemplating such transfers, it has been said that every parent has one additional child to...
There’s a party going on right here
The scene outside the large group exercise room in the Simon Family JCC’s gym on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 am is quiet and generally serene. Members of all ages are concentrating on their weightlifting sets and getting heart healthy on the various cardiovascular...
Alene Jo Kaufman retires from HAT
It’s the end of a “double chai” era. Thirty-six years in which Alene Jo Kaufman led, taught and touched the lives of hundreds of the community’s children and families at the Hebrew Academy of Tidewater Konikoff Center of Learning and Strelitz Early Childhood Center...
Jewish Family Service wraps up 10th Annual Week of Healthy Living
Sunday, May 4 was a picture-perfect morning with clear blue, sunny skies and comfortable temperatures for the more than 450 runners and walkers who gathered at 24th Street Park at the Virginia Beach oceanfront for Jewish Family Service’s 10th Annual Run, Roll or...
Ballpark event a homerun for Business & Legal Society
The theme of the Business & Legal Society of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s final event of the year involved a serendipitously timed topic: the construction of a proposed 18,000-seat arena in Virginia Beach, and attracting a major league sports team...
Holocaust Commission program to be featured at Yad Vashem conference
Two of the suitcases Elena Barr Baum will take with her to Israel when she travels there in July are pre-packed, and not her own. They belong to the Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, and are filled with reproductions of mementos...
Temple Sinai names new rabbi
The membership of Temple Sinai of Newport News has approved hiring Severine Sokol as its new rabbi. After a congregational meeting April 27, where Sokol was approved unanimously, Congregation president Paul Brindza praised Temple members for their support in bringing...
Cantor’s loss leaves Jewish Republicans bereft
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Eric Cantor’s defeat in one constituency, Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, triggered mourning among another: Republican Jews. Since 2009, Rep. Cantor (R-Va.) has been the only Jewish Republican in Congress. After the 2010 GOP takeover of the...
Jewish Major League baseball cards feature current and classic players
The seventh edition of Jewish Major Leaguer Baseball Cards—a 50-card set largely focused on events in baseball involving Jewish players over the last four years is now available. The 2010 edition, the fifth update, was thought to be the last. But popular demand,...
Arthur Gelb, New York Times editor and critic
Arthur Gelb, a former arts critic and managing editor for The New York Times, has died. Gelb, who worked at the newspaper for 45 years, died Tuesday, May 20 in his native Manhattan following a stroke. He was 90. The Times in its obituary the day after Gelb’s passing...
Lillian Rosenstein Pugach
Virginia Beach —Lillian Rosenstein Pugach passed away May 23, 2014, at her home in Virginia Beach at age 96. Mrs. Pugach was born in Leicester, Mass. and lived in Englewood, N.J., for most of her adult life. She was a longtime member of Temple Emanuel in Englewood,...
Ruth Brown Posner
Virginia Beach —Ruth Brown Posner, 84, died on Sunday, May 25, 2014. She was born in Oak Park, Ill. and was the daughter of the late Rose Meyer and Robert Brown, and the widow of Nelson S. Posner. She had retired as a medical technologist in the Hematology department...
Searching for balance
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel Ari Shavit Spiegel & Grau, 2013 445 pages, $28.00 ISBN: 9780385521703 eBook ISBN: 9880812984644 Winner of the newly established Natan Book Award, Ari Shavit’s My Promised Land is the most recommended book about...
Avi Mednick
Avi Mednick on his graduation from James Madison University, with a bachelors of arts degree in history. He is the son of Sara Kruger and Saul Mednick. Grandparents are Dr. David and Adel Kruger, Dr. Robert and Miriam Seeherman, and Maurice Mednick (of blessed Memory).
Rabbi Israel Zoberman
Rabbi Israel Zoberman who will offer the prayer at the House of Representatives on the occasion of his 40th anniversary in the rabbinate on Wednesday, June 25 at noon. It will be carried live on C-SPAN. Rabbi Zoberman will be the guest of Congressman Scott Rigell.
Holocaust Commission Student Art Exhibition
Through June 7, 8 am–10 pm, Old Dominion University Virginia Beach The Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s annual student art exhibit is currently on display in the Atrium of the Virginia Beach Higher Education Center, 1881 University...
Rachelle Friedman promotes new book
Tuesday, June 3, 7 pm, Barnes & Noble, Virginia Beach Just weeks prior to her wedding, Rachelle Friedman was playfully pushed into the pool at her bachelorette party. At that moment, her life changed forever. Friedman will speak about her new book, The Promise: A...