An annual recognition and celebration of the more than 350-year history of Jewish achievements and contributions to the fabric of American life and culture in the United States, Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) is held during the month of May. JAHM was first...
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TJF seeks new donors for education tax credit program
Tidewater Jewish Foundation, an approved scholarship foundation under the Virginia Education Improvement Scholarship Tax Credit (EISTC) Program, is looking for new donors before its current fiscal/program year ends on June 30, 2023. BINA High School, Strelitz...
Mission returns from Israel with new appreciation for the work of Federation and partners
A small but mighty group of Federation donors participated in the 2023 UJFT Community Mission to Israel, February 28 through March 9. During the week-long journey, they wandered through history, culture, and time. . . soaking in all there was to see, hear, taste,...
2023 Stein Family Scholarship Winner: John Weber Williamson
The annual Stein Family College Scholarship of the Tidewater Jewish Foundation is awarded this year to John Weber Williamson, a senior at Great Bridge High School in Chesapeake. Williamson is the 16th recipient of the four-year scholarship, which provides up to...
Memorial Day Commemoration
Thursday, May 25, 8:30 am, Jewish War Veterans Flagpole, Sandler Family Campus The Board of Rabbis and Cantors of Hampton Roads and the Jewish War Veterans (Post 158) will host a community Memorial Day Weekend observance to start the weekend in appreciation of those...
Don’t miss the Camp JCC experience
With summer right around the corner, Camp JCC is gearing up for another exciting season. Last year’s day camp program was so successful that this year’s spots are filling fast – good news for the camp and an incentive for parents to register children for a summer...
Temple Israel presents the Maccabeats
Sunday, March 13, 7:30 pm, streaming on screens, $36 Few acts speak to Jewish audiences more than the Maccabeats, and on Sunday, March 13, Temple Israel will present this amazing a capella group. The performance will be available to view from the comfort and safety of...
Society of Professionals plans series of events
A power line-up of events is planned for United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Society of Professionals’ (SOP) 2022 Spring season. Speakers will share best practices for promoting businesses, as well as insider information on the most up-to-the-minute business...
Sgt. Gerald Cohen USMC
Virginia Beach—Sgt Gerald Cohen USMC (Ret), also known as Jerry, Dad, or Papa to those that knew and loved him, passed away peacefully on January 12, 2022 at the age of 87 with his family by his side. With a tough, stubborn exterior, Jerry was a family man at heart....
“Bill” David Forman
NORFOLK—With hearts broken we announce the passing of William “Bill” David Forman. He was born February 17, 1945, in Seattle, Washington, and passed away with his wife and kids by his side on January 21, 2022, from COVID-related pneumonia. Bill was born to Abe and...
Zachary Kantor
Virginia Beach—Zach Kantor passed, unexpectedly, on January 20 at the age of 30. Born in Norfolk, to parents Sherry and David, he graduated from First Colonial High School and attended Tidewater Community College. Zach was a graduate of and performed at Funny Bone...
Irwin Michael Kroskin
Virginia Beach—Irwin Michael Kroskin, 84, passed away January 23, 2022 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Born and raised in Norfolk, he was the son of the late Philip and Miriam Finestone Kroskin. He was preceded in death by his wife Ruthi Sherman Kroskin...
Marian Cogen Leavitt
Norfolk—Marian Cogen Leavitt was born November 24, 1927 in Portsmouth, Virginia to Maurice Cogen and Sarah Silverman Cogen. She died January 22, 2022 in the Memory Support Unit of Harbor’s Edge, Norfolk, where she had been a resident for five years. She is survived by...
Miriam “Mimi” Longman
Livingston, N.J.—Miriam (Mimi) Longman, age 100, passed away at home in Livingston, N.J. January 8, 2022. Miriam, born in Baltimore in 1921, graduated from the University of Maryland in 1943, then worked as a social worker. She was predeceased in 2017 by her husband,...
Estella Miller
Virginia Beach—The world lost a little kindness when Estella Miller passed away at the age of 94 after a long and courageous battle with Alzheimers and Parkinsons Diseases. Family was everything to her and she lived her life unselfishly committed with uncompromising...
Helene Sears Mitchell
Portsmouth—Helene Sears Mitchell, 102, of Crawford Parkway, passed away Sunday, January 30, 2022. She was predeceased by her beloved husband Hal Mitchell, and her late mother and father, Sarah and Hyman Sears. A native and lifetime resident of Portsmouth, she...
Henry M. Schwan
Norfolk—Prominent Virginia attorney Henry M. Schwan, who practiced law in downtown Norfolk for 65 years, and whose family roots extend in Hampton Roads for generations, died February 2, 2022, at the age of 92. Over the course of his career, Henry earned a reputation...
29th Annual Virginia Festival of Jewish Film • February 24–28, 2022 Presented by Alma & Howard Laderberg
A Starry Sky Above The Roman Ghetto Thursday, February 24, 7:30 pm Cinema Café Kemps River 1220 Fordham Drive, Virginia Beach Tickets: $12 Director Giulio Base | 100 min Italy | 2020 | Italian with English Subtitles | Not Rated Led by a talented ensemble of young...
Opinion: From vigils to vitriol, the Texas hostage crisis showed social media at its best and worst
(New York Jewish Week via JTA)—It was the best of Twitter. It was the worst of Twitter. During the long agonizing hours of Saturday, January 15, during which a rabbi and three congregants were held against their will at a Dallas-area synagogue, social media performed...
Virginia Governor signs Executive Order establishing the Commission to Combat Antisemitism
On his first day in office, Saturday, January 15, Governor Glenn Youngkin issued an Executive Order establishing a commission to combat antisemitism in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The order states: “The Commonwealth of Virginia has been a pioneer for religious...
Painting among the finalists in state-wide competition for Virginia’s most endangered artifact
vamuseums.org A late 19th century oil painting of Lewis Nusbaum, an early member of both Ohef Sholom Temple and Beth El, is a finalist in the Virginia Association of Museum’s annual competition for Virginia’s most endangered artifact. The oil painting is one of many...
Jewish Family Service bids a fond farewell to Sue Graves, welcomes new development team
Anyone who has ever attended a Jewish Family Service of Tidewater event, participated in Run, Roll or Stroll, ordered a Basket of Hope centerpiece for a celebration, or made a charitable gift to JFS, likely encountered Sue Graves. For more than two decades, Graves has...
Dear Readers
Dear Readers, Whether one eats to live or lives to eat, food is always a discussion. And, somehow, food is often tied to romance and friendship. Speaking of food and friendship, in November, a friend came to town with three copies of Israeli-born British chef Yotam...
Our mothers, ourselves. Shari Berman in the kitchen.
A catering mentor once told Shari Berman, ‘We eat with our eyes.’ As a young kosher caterer, art lover, and teacher, she took his words to heart and allowed her brain to release childhood memories. “When I was in high school, my mother’s culinary talent impressed...
Tidewater grateful for ongoing partnership with Secure Community Network
To better protect the members of the Jewish community who worship and attend area synagogues, day schools, and other Jewish agencies in Tidewater, United Jewish Federation of Tidewater with support from a Tidewater Jewish Foundation community impact grant, joined with...
All Texas synagogue hostages ‘out alive and safe’ after harrowing 12-hour standoff, suspect is dead
(JTA)—All four hostages at a synagogue in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area were declared “out alive and safe” by Texas Governor Greg Abbott at 9:33 pm CST on Saturday, January 15, following a 12-hour standoff with an armed assailant in an unfolding saga that...