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30th Annual Virginia Festival of Jewish Film wraps
The Virginia Festival of Jewish Film, presented by Alma & Howard Laderberg, wrapped up its 30th anniversary on Wednesday, March 1, with Farewell Mr. Haffmann at Virginia Beach’s Beach Cinema Alehouse. The French film, distributed initially as Adieu, Monsieur...
The PhotoHouse: Israel’s past, present, and future at 75 years
Screening of Life in Stills: Wednesday, April 26, 7:30 pm, Sandler Family Campus As the adage goes, a picture tells a thousand words. How many stories could be written, then, from millions of photographic negatives? The PhotoHouse, founded in Tel Aviv in 1940 by Rudi...
Annual Janet Gordon Mah Jongg event benefits Beth Sholom Village
Sunday, April 23, 11 am, Sandler Family Campus The most common thing you may have heard about the 2023 Janet Gordon Mah Jongg Day & Luncheon in support of Beth Sholom Village? The tournament is back! After a 3.5-year hiatus, the event planning committee is...
An Evening of Reflection and Remembrance
2023 Holocaust Day of Remembrance Sunday, April 16, 6:45 pm Temple Israel, 7255 Granby Street, Norfolk Yom Hashoah, a time to remember and reflect on the Holocaust, will take place in Tidewater on Sunday, April 16 at Temple Israel in Norfolk. The entire community is...
Women’s activism in New Orleans: Staking claims and crossing boundaries with Dr. Anne Gessler
Thursday, April 20, 7:30 pm, Zoom Old Dominion University’s Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding, United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, and ODU’s Women’s Studies present a talk by Anne Gessler, PhD. Gessler’s talk explores the period between 1900...
Connie Banks Bernstein
Norfolk—Connie Banks Bernstein of Norfolk, Va. passed away on Sept. 13, 2021, at age 95. She is predeceased (1988) by her beloved husband Elliot Bernstein. She is survived by her three children: sons Albert and Morton Bernstein; daughter Joyce Howell; and by her seven...
Norman Blumenson
Keizer, Ore.—Norman Blumenson, born September 12, 1925, died on September 15, 2021, a few days after his 96th birthday, in Keizer, Oregon. Norman was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son of the late Isadore and Fannie Blumenson. He was predeceased by his...
Loretta Ann Cohen
Norfolk—Loretta Ann Cohen, nee Comess, passed on the 18th of September, 2021. Loretta was born in 1937 and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. A true Norfolkian; she attended Blair Middle School and Maury High School. She was passionate about art, philanthropy, and her five...
Mildred Lillian Dreyfus
CHESAPEAKE—Mildred Lillian Dreyfus, 94, passed away on September 26, 2021, surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Union City, New Jersey to Benjamin and Rebecca Scherb on December 7, 1926. One of seven siblings, she was a first-generation American in a...
Arnold M. Hoffman, DDS
Virginia Beach—Dr. Arnold M. Hoffman, DDS, age 88, passed away at Atlantic Shores Seaside Health Center in Virginia Beach on October 2, 2021, from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland to the late Max and Lena Hoffman. He was...
Janet Sylvia Linden
Richmond—Janet Sylvia Linden, 95, of Norfolk, Virginia, passed away on Thursday, September 23, 2021, in Richmond, Virginia. Sylvia was born in Norfolk. She was the youngest of the six children of Morris and Hannah Kahn. She was the bookkeeper for Temple Israel and...
Bernice Dubinski Moses
Norfolk—Bernice passed away on Tuesday, September 28 at Sentara Leigh Hospital. She was preceded in death by her parents, Max and Martha Dubinsky; brothers, Leo and David Dubinski; husband, David Moses; and daughter, Maxine Moses Garnher. She is survived by her son,...
Super Sunday raises funds and builds community for Jewish Tidewater
Super Sunday was truly a great community day, and a success by every measure. On Sunday, September 12, dozens of volunteers—members of Tidewater’s Jewish community—came together at the Sandler Family Campus to welcome friends, neighbors, and fellow community members...
The Rosenblatt family tree roots itself in giving back
In the 1950s and 60s, two Norfolk streets where Wexford Terrace turn into Colony Point, served as an enclave for Jewish business leaders and community builders raising families. Close to Wards Corner and the Norfolk Naval Base, the legacy location attracted many...
Legal Matters in the Jewish Community
Dear Readers, Just as we all need banks and dentists, there aren’t many of us who don’t require an attorney at some point in life…if not really often for some. Fortunately, we have plenty of top legal minds to choose from in Tidewater. Lisa Richmon talks to two such...
Local attorneys rise to the top
Practicing law can be like baking a cake. Both require precise timing and ingredients in exact measure. A dash of restraint goes a long way, too. Just ask attorney Neal Schulwolf who knows the power of pause when a new client reveals his search for a Jewish lawyer....
Gathering observes Sukkot
Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn and Rabbi Roz Mandelberg observe the mitzvah of waving the lulav and etrog at a gathering in Downtown Norfolk during Sukkot. The 56th Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, Filler-Corn is the first woman and the first Jewish person to...
Couple turns from law to art: Valerie and Matt White
Type A attorney turned artist: Valerie White’s latest passion is painting, but husband Matt White just might show her up. Valerie puts her whole heart into everything she does: law (let’s become a partner), yoga (let’s do teacher training), real estate (let’s make it...
33rd Annual Strelitz International Academy Golf Tournament
On the perfectly sunny morning of September 14, Strelitz International Academy’s 33rd Annual Golf Tournament, affectionately known as the Bob Josephberg Classic, took place on the Bayville Golf Club course. The Bob Josephberg Classic is SIA’s biggest fundraiser. This...
Come From Away returns to stage and screen, with Jewish values at its center
(JTA)—When U.S. airspace closed as a result of the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, 38 planes were grounded in Gander, Newfoundland, stranding nearly 7,000 international travelers “on the northeast tip of North America.” So begins the story of Come...
Simon Family Passport to Israel recipient Nathan Prince soaks in the Israel experience
The Israel trip was an experience of a lifetime! A couple of reasons why I chose to be a part of the Journey 5 trip to Israel include making new connections and experiencing historical and culturally important areas in my homeland. Growing up Jewish was not easy. In...
Elie Wiesel Competition’s 2021 winners now online
www.holocaustcommission.jewishva.org It took 25 years and a coronavirus to push the Elie Wiesel student competitions (art and writing) to their new online format. Since most public and many private school students spent their year in remote learning, the Holocaust...
Sunday Fun Day moves into fall
The new tradition of Sunday Fun Day continued this fall as PJ Library in Tidewater welcomed families to the Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus of the Tidewater Jewish Community on September 12 for an afternoon of field games, music, and ice cream. Families with...
Reception for revered artist and matriarch turns into a virtual delight
Collectors, family, friends, and mentors gathered from across the country—and globe—to honor artist Lorraine Fink during a reception celebrating Then, Now, & Looking Forward: Lorraine Fink Retrospective. The reception was held via Zoom on Sunday, Sept. 12. As a...
Healing of the soul, healing of the body
Stephen Fried with area clergy Sunday, October 3, 5:30 pm Stephen Fried with area professionals Monday, October 4, 7 pm If someone were to ask what’s in your pillbox, you may answer blood pressure medication, cholesterol medication, immunosuppressants, something...