What’s Happening

Tuesday, December 6, 12 pm Watch from Home—Virtual Is  finding true love a calling or a curse? In Lynda Cohen Loigman’s The Matchmaker’s Gift, Sara Glikman knows her gift as a child in 1910: she is a seeker of soulmates and a maker of matches. But among the...

Tuesday, January 17, 12 pm Watch from Home—Virtual In Jai Chakrabarti’s A Play for the End of the World, Jaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Lucy Gardner, a southerner, newly arrived in New York City in 1972, are in the first bloom of love when they...

In partnership with Simon Family JCC’s JFit Wednesday, January 25, 12 pm Sandler Family Campus The Whole Body Reset: Your Weight-Loss Plan for a Flat Belly, Optimum Health and a Body You’ll Love—at Midlife and Beyond Stephen Perrine and Heidi Skolnik $12 (lunch...

Monday, December 12, 12 pm, Simon Family JCC Inspired by the book, Malkah’s Notebook: A Journey into the Mystical Aleph Bet, this hands-on workshop will take participants on a mystical journey through the letters of their name when spelled in Hebrew. The workshop is...

Registration for Camp JCC Summer 2023 is now open for all sessions and age groups. The summer Camp JCC program, for children from rising pre-K through eighth graders, takes place June 20 to August 11, with a “last blast” program that follows. Special early bird...

Monday, December 5, 7:30 pm Watch from Home—Register for the link to join   Cooking alla Giudia: A Celebration of the Jewish Food of Italy Benedetta Jasmine Guetta Artisan Books 352 pages, 2022 Italian food. Just those two words bring to mind so many wonderful...

Thursday, December 8, 7:30 pm Sandler Family Campus, Free Bias in society is something everyone knows of and has encountered, but what about the unconscious bias within each person that informs everyday actions? Have you ever taken the time to examine the preconceived...

Tuesday, November 29, 7 pm A Torah study class led by Rabbi Ellen Jaffe-Gill, rabbi of Tidewater Chavurah, is finishing up Second Kings in November and plans to begin the prophets for whom books are named, starting with Isaiah. The Torah study is virtual on Zoom and...

Lee and Bernard Jaffe Family Jewish Book Festival Thursday, November 17, 7:30 pm, Sandler Family Campus, free  “What a shanda!” I remember the first time I heard that phrase—it came from Sally, one of the Sisterhood ladies who invited me to join their dinner table...

Presentation: Tuesday, November 29, 12 pm, online Workshop: Monday, December 12, 12 pm, Sandler Family Campus Art on view through December: Leon Family Gallery Part bedtime story, part poem, and filled with highly evocative illustrations, Malkah’s Notebook: A Journey...

Course begins: Thursday, December 1, 12–1 pm Simon Family JCC Four weekly sessions: $60 Rabbi Michael Panitz and Sierra Lautman Last month, in a course offered by United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Konikoff Center for Learning, Origins: Ancient Jewish History in...

Originally published in the January 25, 2021 issue. Thursday, February 4, 7:30-8:30 pm The US embassy is in Jerusalem and more Arab countries have recognized Israel, but the relationship between ordinary Israelis and Palestinians has never been worse. So says the...

Originally published in the January 25, 2021 issue.  Thursday, March 18, 6:30 pm, virtual The Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities will honor Lawrence L. Steingold at its 57th annual Tidewater Humanitarian Awards Dinner. These VCIC honors are presented to...

Wednesday, April 1, 7:30 pm 2 For Seder launched the expansion of its highly successful first-year campaign to combat anti-Semitism in February. Today, with the concerns surrounding the novel coronavirus, and new CDC guidelines for social gatherings, 2 for Seder is...

After the Pittsburgh Synagogue massacre, one woman’s journey from victim to activist Tuesday, March 24, 7:30 pm, Kempsville Conservative Synagogue, KBH On Shabbat morning, October 27, 2018, 11 people were murdered in the Tree of Life massacre in Pittsburgh, Pa. Joyce...

Sunday, March 22, 8:30 am - 3:30 pm It is time again for Ohef Sholom Temple’s Rummage Sale, a much anticipated Sisterhood event that takes place every other year. The Rummage Sale is Sisterhood’s biggest fundraiser and involves lots of work, planning, schlepping,...

Tuesday, March 24, 7:30 pm Kehillat Bet Hamidrash, Free Following the murder of her mother-in-law, Joyce Fienberg, at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Marnie Fienberg embarked on a journey from victim to activist. Fienberg switched careers from business...

Tuesday, February 11, 5:30–6:30 pm Simon Family JCC, FREE Get ready for the JCC Maccabi Games with a Maccabi Kick-Off party. Get information and questions answered about joining Team Virginia Beach in New York City, August 9-14. Event includes pizza and drinks. A $100...

Tuesday, February 18, noon Sandler Family Campus, Free with RSVP Rabbi Baruch Danziger of the Norfolk Kollel and Barb Gelb of United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, will conduct a Lunch and Learn exploring ancient and contemporary wisdom on elevating relationships....