Jenny Goldfarb grew up in South Florida, born into a family of delicatessen owners, she ate her weight in kosher-style corned beef. Munching on subs with friends before the beach, it never crossed her mind that she would become the founder of a company leading a food...
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Virginia Festival of Jewish Film’s BIG Saturday Night with Israel Today’s Israeli photographer Amos Nachoum
Saturday, February 22, 8 pm, Sandler Center for the Performing Arts Tickets $35 or under 21, FREE with RSVP (required) The Big Saturday Night Celebration of Jewish Film and Champagne Reception is in memory of Patricia Ashkenazi The BIG Saturday Night Celebration of...
Retirement in Style
Dear Readers, Sleeping in. Long walks. Exotic trips. For some, these are the dreams, and perhaps even the realities of retirement. Creating new businesses. Volunteering. International moves. For some, these are the dreams…and realities of retirement. Different doors...
Time is running out! Take the Jewish Tidewater survey ASAP.
Survey closes February 29 In just about 15 minutes you can let Tidewater’s organized Jewish community know what you think works and what doesn’t and what you’d like to see more or less of. And, you can do it anonymously for absolutely no cost from the comfort of your...
Anti-Semitism: Why Today?
Excerpted from Rabbi Rosalin Mandelberg’s sermon at Ohef Sholom Temple on February 7, 2020. As if the fear of the coronavirus isn’t enough, the Anti-Defamation League reports that extremists are promoting conspiracy theories blaming (guess who?) the Jews. February...
White supremacists distributed more propaganda in 2019 but held fewer events, ADL says
One flyer reads “Holocaust = fake news.” Another says “America is not for sale.” And another: “Diversity destroys nations.” These are just a few of the 2,713 pieces of propaganda distributed in the United States by white supremacist groups in 2019, according to...
Perlman performance rouses audience at Virginia Arts Festival concert
Students of the Perlman Music Project, along with their mentor, Itzhak Perlman, received three standing ovations at the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts. The concert was copresented by the Virginia Arts Festival and the Marilyn and Marvin Simon Family JCC as the...
Students get help from Federation gifts
Students at the Hebrew Academy of Tidewater are fortunate to have some of the most modern, technologicallyforward learning tools in their classrooms. Some of the hi-tech tools come via the use of Interactive White Boards, commonly known as smart boards, which allow...
Nominate a Jewish Community Hero
The next time you’re out in the Jewish community, look to your left, look to your right; look at yourself. Chances are you’ll see a Jewish Community Hero. The United Jewish Federation of Tidewater wants to recognize these heroes, sharing the passion and dedication...
Bill Nusbaum honored at Ohef Sholom with Kaufmann award
Ohef Sholom Temple’s Men’s Club presented William L. Nusbaum with its prestigious Henry B. Kaufmann Award for Service to the temple and the community on Sunday, May 6. Emceed by the Honorable Lou Sherman, several speakers took the podium to praise Nusbaum’s...
Dr. Jason K. Wagner: Making time for “doing Jewish”
Jason Wagner, MD, 27, lights up when he talks about his ketubah that he and his wife Shauna signed at their wedding on Nov. 12, 2011. “It was so cool to explore ketuba.com on the internet and design our own document. We chose the graphics and also the wording.” It...
Ohef Sholom Temple and Temple Sinai join together
Two congregations will soon officially be one. On Sunday, June 3, Temple Sinai of Portsmouth and Ohef Sholom Temple of Norfolk will come together as one congregational family. The day will begin with a ceremony at Temple Sinai, where Rabbi Arthur Steinberg will speak...
Jewish Education Night, 2012
Jewish learning—its teachers and administrators of all the community Jewish schools were honored at this year’s Jewish Education Night on May 14 at the Simon Family JCC. Many awards and recognitions were given to deserving teachers and youth. Annabel Sacks, chair of...
Women’s Cabinet Spring Luncheon welcomes and inspires
Sitting in the sunlit great room of Cindy Kramer’s Virginia Beach home, members and guests at the Women’s Cabinet Installation Luncheon were served a healthy meal peppered with introductions, information and conversation. The annual meeting, held this year on May 10,...
The seventy faces of the Torah
This past weekend, the Jewish world celebrated the least known of the Shelosh Regalim, the three pilgrimage festivals; the festival of Shavuot. Pesach is well-known because of the elaborate set of home rituals called a seder. And most Jews have at least some...
Arno Lustiger, 88, historian and Holocaust survivor
Arno Lustiger, a Holocaust survivor and historian who put a spotlight on Jewish resistance against the Nazis, died May 15 in Frankfurt, Germany, at 88. Lustiger’s “greatest contribution for all time” was in “rescuing from oblivion the story of Jewish resistance in the...
Tamara Brooks, 70, choral conductor and wife of Theodore Bikel
Tamara Brooks, a noted choral conductor, and the wife and musical partner of singeractor Theodore Bikel, died May 19 at 70. Brooks, a Juilliard-trained pianist and conductor, had a distinguished career as a conductor and educator who performed around the world. She...
Jenny Bluestein, 60, St. Louis celebrity hair stylist
Jenny Bluestein, a one-time nurse who became a prominent hair stylist and TV personality in St. Louis, died April 27 at 60 of a pulmonary embolism. She had opened her cancer battle to the public. “Our viewers loved her,” said Jennifer Blome, KSDK-TV’s news...
Vidal Sassoon, 84, celebrity stylist and anti-Semitism fighter
Celebrity hair stylist Vidal Sassoon, who was committed to fighting anti-Semitism and fought in Israel’s War of Independence, died May 9 in his Los Angeles home at 84. He had been battling leukemia. Sassoon, a London native, from the age of three grew up in a Jewish...
John Sperling
Scotch Plains, N.J—John Sperling, 100, passed away on Wednesday, May 9, 2012, at the Center for Hope Hospice, Scotch Plains, N.J. Mr. Sperling was born in Tarnopol, Austria Oct. 12, 1911, to David and Gussie Sperling and came to the United States in 1913. He was a...
Freda S. Schwartz
Norfolk—Freda Sylvia Schwartz, 91, died May 4, 2012 in Virginia Beach. Born in Norfolk she was the daughter of the late Louis Salsbury and Yetta Klavins Salsbury. She was a former member of Temple Israel and Hadassah. She was preceded in death by her husband Erwin I....
Claire Weinberg Nesson
Norfolk—Claire Weinberg Nesson, of Norfolk, passed away at her residence on Monday, May 7, with her loving family at her side. Claire was a native of Canarsie, Brooklyn, N. Y. She was a member of Congregation Beth El and it’s Sisterhood, and Hadassah. She was a...
Joseph Flum
Virginia Beach—Joseph Flum, 85, died May 1, 2012. Mr. Flum was born in New York to the late Henry and Ray Greissman Flum. He was veteran, having served in the U.S. Army during WWII. Mr. Flum was a sales agent for New York Life Insurance Company and retired after 34...
Roslyn Beldin
Norfolk—Roslyn G. Beldin, 97, formerly of Norfolk and a resident of The Lynmoore in Richmond, Va., passed away peacefully on May 8, 2012. A native of Norfolk, she was the daughter of the late Isadore Gershon and Rebecca Blinderman Gershon. Mrs. Beldin was preceded in...
Josh and Shauna Peters, of Alexandria, Va., on the birth of their daughter, Brooke Miriam Peters. Josh is the son of Beverlee Tiger and her husband, Cantor Lawrence Tiger. Shauna is the daughter of Stephen and Judy Berman of Fairfax, Va.
Heidi and Rich Litner of Dunwoody, Ga. on the birth of Estee Miriam Litner. She was born 18.75 inches and weighing 6 lbs., 13 oz. Welcoming her arrival is her proud sister, Sadie, as well as grandparents Philip Rovner and Joanne Batson; Barry and Myong Litner of...