Remaining relevant in a world of clashing ideologies and mixed agendas, crisis upon crisis, decade after decade, is the most striking feature of a legacy organization such as ORT. Fixed, yet flexible, the foundation of ORT’s high-tech educational mission is relevance....
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Hundreds of layoffs with more to come: We’re tracking coronavirus job losses in the Jewish world
(JTA)—The Jewish Telegraphic Agency is recording layoffs and furloughs at Jewish organizations as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This story is updated regularly and serves as a running log of layoffs and furloughs imposed at Jewish nonprofits. May 14: 60 laid...
Summer camp is canceled. Here’s how Jewish parents can rise to the challenge.
SHORT HILLS, N.J. (JTA)—The announcement that Jewish summer camps will be closed this year has been tough on parents around the country. If we could just have this one little remainder of normalcy, we told ourselves, we’d be fine. But as with virtually every other...
CRC and Holocaust Comission Update: Never Again Education Act Passes Congress!
The U.S. Senate adopted the House version of the Never Again Education Act (H.R. 943/S. 2085), an important Holocaust education bill, which will provide expertise and resources to states, localities and schools on Wednesday, May 13. The bill has now passed Congress...
Be a video star
Due to the COVID-19 virus, Beth Sholom Village residents are not allowed visitors. Want to let these residents of BSV know that they are being thought of and missed? Create a short video (30 seconds—1 minute) of greetings and good wishes or share a special talent...
La Promenade: Virginia Beach lifestyle carousel plays a strong retail game
On a ‘typical’ lockdown Saturday morning before Mother’s Day, a store manager places orange traffic cones strategically in the parking lot outside Nothing Bundt Cakes at La Promenade in Virginia Beach. The popular cake boutique preps for the pre-Mother’s Day surge...
Iris G. Elkins
Virginia Beach—Iris G. Elkins, 93, of Virginia Beach, passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. She was the wife of the late Robert B. Elkins. She is survived by two daughters: Sheila Emanuel of Norfolk and Eileen Torow of Milford, Conn. She is also survived by five...
Temple Emanuel Day at Barnes and Noble Town Center — Thursday, Nov. 29
All proceeds from the purchase of books, toys, magazines, DVDs, gifts, Nooks, and even from the cafe at Barnes and Nobel on Nov. 29 will go to Temple Emanuel’s Religious School and the Temple Library for scholarships, textbooks, supplies, books for the library and new...
Village offers holiday treats
Beth Sholom Village Caterers are offering holiday treats for Thanksgiving and Chanukah. Homemade pies will be available for Thanksgiving with a choice of apple, cherry, pecan, pumpkin or sweet potato. Pies are 9”, parve and $10 each. Orders must be in by Wednesday,...
CRC to focus on Israel Today in 2nd Annual Series beginning with morality
Tuesday, Nov. 27, 7 pm The Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, along with community partners including all area synagogues, agencies and many organizations, kicks off its 2012-2013 Israel Today Series with Dr. Amos Guiora, an...
Cardo Café at Simon Family JCC offers Thanksgiving specials
Side dishes for a Thanksgiving dinner are available this year from the Cardo Café’s caterers. Menu items, which are all pareve, include: Mashed potatoes, green beans, sweet potato casserole, corn pudding, stuffing and dressing, relish, gravy and dinner rolls. For...
Why Do THEY Do That? A series of understanding
The Jewish Museum & Cultural Center continues its new series to discuss the many differences in religious cultures, yet similarities. The series takes place on the second Sunday of each month. Each event is open to the public and suitable for all ages. Donation of...
The Lee and Bernard Jaffe* Jewish Book Festival
Storyteller helps little apple trees discover their roots Sunday, Nov. 18, 1pm Famed storyteller Peninnah Schram will be a featured speaker at the Lee and Bernard Jaffe* Family Jewish Book Festival. Schram is a storyteller, teacher, author, recording artist, and a...
Diverse speakers engage community in CRC’s Learn@Lunch Sessions
The concept behind the Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Learn@Lunch series is to provide education opportunities on a variety of issues, in different places, during business lunch hours. “We were hearing from some members of...
Celebrating the power of Jewish Women
Just walking into the Fleder Multipurpose Room at noontime on Thursday, Nov. 1, one sensed energy and high spirits. Looking a little more closely, one immediately understood…this was a room full of powerful women. The 2013 United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Lion...
Golf’s Longest Day above par
Beth Sholom Village’s Fifth Annual Richard “Dick” Porter Memorial Golf Tournament was held on Monday, Oct. 22 at Bayville Golf Course. Six golfers braved the beautiful blue skies, low humidity and bright sunshine and played a total of 332 holes of golf! The golfers...
Jason Hoffman wins (kind of) big on TV game show
Yes, Jason Hoffman wants to be a millionaire. Did he become one because of his appearance on a television game show? Yay or nay, and is that your final answer? Hoffman, chair of the Young Adult Division of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater and associate vice...
Tidewater Jewish women experience Cuba
Cuba? Bucket list? Not on it for most of us, and by most of us, I mean the 28 women who signed on for last month’s United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s/Joint Distribution Committee sponsored women’s mission to Havana Cuba, led by mission chairs Laura Gross and Jodi...
Entertaining comedy from Performing Arts at the J
Comedian Dan Ahdoot, the first of three events at the Simon Family JCC in this season’s Performing Arts at the J, presented by Leah Wohl*, kept the jokes coming, pleasing adults of all ages on Saturday, Oct. 20. Susan Schwartzman, chairperson of the series, says the...
Fighting over every percentage point: Arguing about the Jewish vote and exit polls
WASHINGTON (JTA)—President Obama’s Jewish numbers are down, but by how much and why? Expect four more years of tussling between Jewish Republicans and Democrats about the meaning of Obama’s dip from 78 percent Jewish support cited in 2008 exit polls to 69 percent this...
As Obama takes second term, Israelis wonder what the future holds
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Most Israelis were asleep as the polls closed in America and voters waited for the results, but on one rooftop in central Tel Aviv a party with loud classic rock music and flashing lights was going strong. It was the pro-Obama election- watching party...
Veteran’s Day event honors Jewish veterans
Monday, Nov. 12, 11 am The Tidewater Jewish Foundation will hold a Veterans Day memorial event honoring Jewish War Veterans who have served the United States of America. Cultural myths about Jews and a perceived avoidance of military service persist. This Tidewater...
Jason Leibowitz: JFNA’s new guy on the block
Jason Leibowitz, 25, stepped out of a cab two years ago in front of the convention center in New Orleans and discovered that he was smiling back at himself from the murals draped across the building’s front entrance. When his picture was taken at the JFNA (Jewish...
Specter remembered as an iconoclast who enjoyed going toe to toe with tyrants
WASHINGTON (JTA)—During his 30 years in the clubby confines of the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter never lost his acerbic prosecutorial zeal, friends and associates say. The insistent questions, the commitment to independence that made the longtime Pennsylvania senator a...
Harry Kittner
Chapel Hill—Harry Kittner, 90, passed away on Oct. 12, 2012, after a period of declining health. Harry was born March 18, 1922, in Weldon, N.C., the fourth of six children of the late Rose and Louis Kittner. Raised in a close-knit, Jewish family, he was the product of...
Mildred Ruth Smith Johnson
Norfolk—Mildred Ruth Smith Johnson, beloved wife, sister, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, died peacefully Oct. 9, 2012 in Fairfax Hospital at 83 years of age. Formerly of Portsmouth, she was born on Jan. 8, 1929 and was the daughter of the late Gussie...