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Hanukkah is celebrated each year when the days are short and the nights are long and dark. For eight whimsical nights, family and friends gather to enjoy precious time together. Delicious meals are prepared, prayers are said, and children play games while the menorah...
In what seems to be an ever enduring global pandemic, tour guides across the world are devising creative ways for visitors to experience other countries without packing a thing. United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Society of Professionals (SoP) recently embarked...
Virginia Beach—Early Monday morning, January 11, Dr. Theodore (Ted) Adler passed away peacefully at home. He was 91 and died from complications of COVID. Ted defied simple categories and possessed a modest nature, a gentle and quiet manner. He had a deep curiosity...
Virginia Beach—Bessie Banks passed away peacefully at the age of 99 on December 24, 2020. She was the daughter of the late Morris and Gussie Cohen. For the past 3½ years, she resided at The Terrace of Beth Sholom Village. Bessie was born and raised in Norfolk, Va. She...
Virginia Beach—On January 4, Dr. Jack I. Cherin, slipped away unexpectedly and peacefully in Virginia Beach. He was born on December 26, 1936 to Minnie and Joseph Cherin in Long Island, New York. His family moved to Norfolk when Jack was a toddler. Jack graduated from...
Norfolk—Judith Schapiro Eichelbaum passed away on Thursday, January 14, 2021. Judy, most delighted in being known as Nana or Nana GG, was born on April 4, 1927 to Lee Haber and Harry Charles Schapiro who are both deceased. Nana was also predeceased by her beloved...
LOS ANGELES (JTA)—While my neighbors were putting their Christmas trees to the curb, in what seems like a ritual of replacement, I was preparing to plant for Tu b’Shvat. My friend Freda recently presented me a cutting from an Angel’s trumpet—a small tree with...
Virginia Beach — Joshua David Weiner, 15, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 25 at the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters. Joshua loved listening to all genre’s of music and was an active member of both the marching and jazz bands in Ocean Lakes High school. He was...
Norfolk — Lorraine Adele Hurwitz, 89 died Dec. 23, 2013. Mrs. Hurwitz was born in Baltimore, Md. to the late Goldie Ginsberg. Goldie’s brother, Allen, was a father figure for Lorraine. Mrs. Hurwitz was a founding member of Temple Israel and a member of the temple...
Norfolk — Adele Gilbert, 89, passed away on Dec. 24, 2013 after an extended illness. She was born in New York City to Joseph and Dora Okyle, and moved to Hampton Roads in 1946. Her husband of 68 years, Dr. Arthur Gilbert predeceased her, as did her brothers, Leonard...
NEW YORK (JTA—Edgar Bronfman, the billionaire former beverage magnate and leading Jewish philanthropist, died Saturday, Dec. 21 at the age of 84. As the longtime president of the World Jewish Congress, Bronfman fought for Jewish rights worldwide and led the successful...
Rikki Dolsey and Nathan Ingram on their “Chanukah 2013” engagement. Rikki is the daughter of Virginia Beach residents, Robert Dolsey and Ronni Marcus. Nathan is the son of Robert and Melia Ingram, both Norfolk natives. The couple plans to marry in the fall of 2015.
Randy Parrish, chief financial officer of the Tidewater Jewish Foundation, who has been named a “Super CPA” by his peers in the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants, who collaborate annually with Virginia Business magazine to recognize those...
Ilene Leibowitz Lipton for being elected president of the Norfolk Task Force on Aging for 2014. The mission of the task force is sharing ideas to plan and meet the ever-changing needs of the community’s elderly population. Leibowitz is the director of sales and...
Sunday, Jan. 19, 2 pm To Frank Grunwald, an industrial designer and accomplished sculptor in his spare time, memories of the Holocaust and the 10 concentration camps he endured were something he’d left far behind. Active only in recent years in his Indiana community’s...
First session: Tuesday, Jan. 21, 6:30 pm Members of Congregation Beth Chaverim, as is typical of Reform Jewish congregations throughout North America, come from diverse religious backgrounds and experiences. Some are born Jewish; some are not. Some have converted to...
Saturday, Jan. 18, 10 am–12 pm Noam Katz, minister for Public Diplomacy for the Embassy of Israel will speak as a part of the World Affairs Council’s Great Decisions lecture series at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Virginia Beach. Katz oversees the public diplomacy...
Date with the State: Wednesday, Feb. 5 bus departs Sandler Family Campus at 8:45 am CRC Briefing on Date with the State: Thursday, Jan. 30, 6 pm Mix civic responsibility, democracy, political action, Jewish values, and history, add a healthy dose of elbow rubbing with...
Wednesday, Jan. 29, 7 pm Regular audience members of the Community Relations Council’s Israel Today Forum say they often get the “news before the ‘news’” by listening to the speaker series’ featured guests. Whether that’s learning about Israel’s underpublicized...
A Shepherd’s Journey The story of Israel’s first Bedouin diplomat Ishmael Khaldi Prestige PrePress, 2010 131 pages, ISBN 978-965-555-473-1 …God used the descendants of Ishmael to save the Jewish nation Could one person be a Muslim, a Bedouin, and an Israeli diplomat?...
National Security through a Cockeyed Lens: How Cognitive Bias Impacts U.S. Foreign Policy Steve A. Yetiv Johns Hopkins, 2013 155 pages, $24.95 When we reviewed Old Dominion University Professor Steve Yetiv’s 2011 book, The Petroleum Triangle, it was our opinion that...
Every year Hebrew Academy and the Strelitz Early Childhood Center administration join hundreds of other educators in Richmond at the Annual Conference of the Virginia Association of Independent Schools. “Continuing education programs like these,” says Rabbi Mordechai...
If anyone can speak about diversity in Israel, it’s Israeli diplomat, Ishmael Khaldi. An Israeli-Bedouin-Arab-Muslim, Khaldi has been a minority his entire life—from the Arab Christian school he attended in the north of Israel, to college, to his service in the...
Kyle Shideler didn’t come to Congregation Beth Chaverim on Monday, Dec. 9 to make the Tidewater Jewish community feel comfortable. He came to make audience members squirm, reciting broad statistics and showing images of terrorists and organizational tracts on a...
Four Tidewater teens attended AIPAC’s Schusterman Advocacy Institute High School Summit in November. Each year, AIPAC partners with select Jewish Day Schools, synagogues, national youth groups and teen leadership organizations to bring 400 student leaders from across...
January 26 9 am–1 pm Take the call, make a gift, volunteer your time Volunteers needed Two shifts: 9–11 am, and 11 am–1 pm. Babysitting provided. The Sandler Family Campus of the Tidewater Jewish Community, Virginia Beach Frequently asked questions What exactly is...