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High Holidays 5781 Special Section

High Holidays 5781 Special Section

In the most recent issue of Jewish News, we wrote about area synagogues preparing for this most unusual High Holiday season. As we go to press, much of those congregations’ work is complete with boxes and bags of honey and cakes and memorial books and prayer books...

Saying goodbye.

Saying goodbye.

Terminal agitation. That is the hospice verbiage for the loud moans my mom was making from the bed in Sonya’s Margate home. The mattress she occupied was the very one she had slept on for many married years with my father, now of blessed memory. Though she would die...

Helping each other: COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund

Helping each other: COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund

Dedicated to caring for Jewish Tidewater’s most vulnerable community members and protecting its vital institutions, the COVID-19 Emergency Fund of the Tidewater Jewish Community has distributed more than $100,000 to assist these populations and agencies....

Temple Israel dances with the stars

They came. They danced. They enjoyed. Nearly 180 people attended Temple Israel’s Dancing with the Temple Stars fundraiser on Sunday, May 19. To tunes such as String of Pearls and Lady in Red, eight couples showed off their fancy footwork in four dances— rumba, waltz,...

Year of Outreach wins national recognition for Ohef Sholom

Ohef Sholom Temple’s programming for Interfaith families won the Union of Reform Judaism’s prestigious Belin Award Honorable Mention, which according to the grant letter, is “given to recognize exceptional programs from around North America that demonstrate a...

UJFT convenes Biennial Meeting: Miles Leon installed as president

On Monday, June 3, 2013, Alvin Wall called to order a meeting of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater (UJFT) for the last time as its president. That evening on the Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus, the UJFT’s biennial meeting saw the installation of a new...

Middle East expert shares insights and analysis at Israel Today Forum

David Makovsky uses sports metaphors when he speaks to audiences. Some football, but mostly baseball. When it comes to uprisings, tensions, conflicts, and wars in the Middle East, Makovsky, an expert in that region of the world, says we’re only in the first, or at...

HAT first graders receive Siddurim at annual presentation

It is always so exciting to see first graders receive their Siddurim at Hebrew Academy of Tidewater’s annual spring Siddur presentation. This year was no different, with parents beaming—some with tears of joy —as their child eagerly walked across the stage to be...

Federation Society members get special tour of Navy hospital ship

A silver lining to the United States government’s budget sequestration came to an event sponsored by the Maimonides and Business & Legal Societies of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater on Sunday, May 19. A group of 20 Jewish community members were able to...

Student art featured at Holocaust Commission exhibition

Sabrina Furlough chose to enter a painting rather than a work of prose or poetry in this year’s Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Elie Wiesel Writing and Visual Arts competitions. Yet, when asked to supply an artist’s statement with...

Stanley Abramowitz, longtime JDC relief worker

Stanley Abramowitz, who in his 65 years working for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee was involved in many of its major operations, has died at 93. Abramowitz, who was working in the former Soviet Union until last year, was buried in Israel. “Stanley’s...

Dr. Joyce Brothers, TV psychologist

Dr. Joyce Brothers, the Jewish psychologist who achieved fame by dispensing advice on TV and radio, as well as winning the top prize on a 1950s game show, has died. Brothers died Monday, May 13 in New York. She was 85. The Dr. Joyce Brothers Show in the 1950s helped...

Anna Rita Stern

Virginia Beach—Anna Rita Stern, 79 of Silver Sands Circle in Virginia Beach passed away peacefully on May 11, 2013. A native of Norfolk, she was the daughter of the late George J.and Mildred Forman and was preceded in death by her husband Allen Stern, her brother Sam...

Greta Friedhoff

Virginia Beach—Greta Friedhoff died May 5, 2013, at 92 in Virginia Beach, where she had moved to be near family: daughter Lynn Feigenbaum; granddaughter Nancy, husband Bob Evans and daughters Julia and Elena, in Williamsburg; and grandson John, wife Rachael and...

Camp out with the Israeli Scouts

Sunday, June 23, 6:30 pm The fun-filled, internationally acclaimed Israeli Scouts Caravan will perform at the Simon Family JCC. The Israeli Scouts Caravan is comprised of ten 17-year-olds who crisscross North America each summer as emissaries of Israel, sharing their...

YAD prepares to celebrate

Saturday, June 1, 8 pm The Young Adult Division of United Jewish Federation of Tidewater will host a celebration of their recent success in the 2013 Annual Campaign. Tidewater’s young leaders have nearly tripled the dollars brought in through the Young Leadership...

UJFT to celebrate Tidewater Jewish community in Biennial Meeting

Monday, June 3, 6 pm Every other year, the leadership and staff of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater come together to celebrate accomplishments, honor leaders, and chart the future. The Biennial meeting, taking place this year at the Sandler Family Campus, is...

Third Annual JCC Presidents’ Cup Golf Tournament

Monday, June 10 The Simon Family JCC’s Presidents’ Cup Tournament, which will take place this year at Heron Ridge Golf Club in Virginia Beach, has existed since the 1980s, but was renamed the Presidents’ Cup two years ago to honor past JCC presidents. The Golf...

Ohef Sholom Temple offers Learners’ Service

Saturday, June 22, 10:30 am Have you ever felt lost in a Jewish Shabbat service? Wondered when to bow or what the Hebrew prayers mean? To help make sense of these customs and to offer insights into the service, Ohef Sholom Temple will offer a four-week series called...