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The Tidewater community showed its commitment to the Jewish practice of tikkun olam—repairing the world—at the 2nd Annual Tikkun Tidewater Community Recycling Day. Held on April 14 in the parking lot of the Simon Family Jewish Community Center at the Sandler Family...
Thursday, May 23, 7 pm Information “hot off the press” is how David Makovsky characterizes what he’ll be discussing at the third and final Israel Today forum at the Simon Family JCC on the Sandler Family Campus in Virginia Beach. Makovsky is flying to Virginia Beach...
Three-dozen women met at Cinema Café in Virginia Beach to make new friends and watch a modernday “classic” on Sunday, April 21. Directed by Barry Levinson, “Avalon” is a coming-of-age story for countless Eastern European Jewish immigrants, who came to the United...
NEW YORK (JTA)—What do Golda Meir, Natalie Portman and Aviva Shalit have in common? They’re all on JTA’s Top Jewish Moms list. With Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 12, we present our select group (in alphabetical order but for our final choice): Bella Abzug The first...
More than 1,000 people attended Israel’s 65th birthday celebration at the Simon Family JCC on Sunday, April 28. The JCC’s biggest party of the year, Israel Festival celebrates Yom Ha’Atzmaut, the official anniversary of the State of Israel. From main stage musical and...
Israel’s history is familiar to Rabbi Rosalin Mandelberg. Her mother is from the country, Mandelberg lived there as a student, and she has visited many times. Yet, Mandelberg says she couldn’t help from saying “Wow,” as she watched the film Creation of a State, the...
For some, the annual Tidewater Yom Hashoah—Holocaust Remembrance Day—commemoration ceremony is too intense, too painful, too sad, or not important to their lives, and so they don’t attend. Others, however, see it as vitally important that they remember the people both...
Junior Poetry First Place—Lana Berry, 8th Grade, Norfolk Academy, Norfolk, Charlie Doar Second Place—Stephen Opitz, 6th Grade, Baylake Pines, Virginia Beach, Mary Opitz Third Place—Rice Webb, 8th Grade, Norfolk Academy, Norfolk, Charlie Doar Honorable Mention—Gregory...
Mazel Tov to Tami Arnowitz and Barbara Klaff who were the winners in the Jewish News facebook contest for tickets to see The Odd Couple at Virginia Stage Company. We hope they enjoyed the show!
Saturday, May 11, 8 pm Performing Arts at the J, presented by Leah Wohl*, presents its last performance of the season: Portsmouth native David Krohn, a baritone talent, with Charles Woodward, pianist. “I am thrilled to return to Hampton Roads to perform a special,...
From Rummikub to the ‘God Particle’—A timeline of Israeli innovations NEW YORK (JTA)—While a great deal of international and media focus has been placed on Israel’s military conflicts, the country quietly has become an energetic, ambitious incubator of...
Members of the legal, business, academic, Jewish and greater communities gathered on April 11 at Old Dominion University for a reception and panel discussion of the exhibit, Lawyers without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany under the Third Reich. More than 200 people...
A delegation of Israeli lawmakers will not attend a Washington conference because the United States has barred entry to one member because he belonged to a banned terrorist group.