What’s Happening

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...

Sunday, December 11, 1–4 pm, Simon Family JCC Families with children of all ages are invited to begin their Hanukkah festivities early at the Simon Family JCC with a special Sunday Fun Day. Toddlers through teens will enjoy Hanukkah-themed crafts and glow-in-the-dark...

Saturday, November 19, 6–10 pm Sandler Family Campus Kids Night Out is back with a thankful theme! Parents with Simon Family JCC family memberships can drop off their children at the JCC and then enjoy a night out on their own! Children, ages four through 12 years...

Sunday, Dec. 4, 11 am, Masonic Temple Brith Sholom’s December’s social event will feature its deluxe brunch catered by Beth Sholom Village and a performance by a jazz trio. The 504 Trio’s musicians play and sing New Orleans Jazz with songs such as When the Saints Go...

Thursday, November 17, 7:30 pm, Sandler Family Campus Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy Letty Cottin Pogrebin Post Hill Press 432 pages, 2022 The 2022–23 Lee and Bernard Jaffe Family Jewish Book Festival continues with author Letty Cottin Pogrebin, who will...

When it comes to bias and discrimination, what actually changes people and cultures? Thursday, December 8, 7:30 pm Sandler Family Campus Bias robs individuals of their futures, organizations of talent, science of breakthroughs, and communities of justice. The End of...

Sunday, December 4, 5 pm, Congregation Beth El Congregation Beth El’s 2022 FUNdraiser will bring music from the Rocky Mountains of Vail, Colorado, to the shores of Norfolk, Virginia. Cantor Michelle Cohn Levy of B’nai Vail Congregation and Coleen Dieker, an...

Thursday, November 3, 12 pm The first session of the Israel Today series, On Assignment with Lahav Harkov, took place on Thursday, October 6, and was an exciting and informative conversation about the upcoming Knesset elections, related polling, and more. Harkov,...

Sunday, November 13, 1 - 4 pm, Simon Family JCC Gather friends and family and head to the Simon Family JCC for an afternoon of fall-themed games, music, crafts, and a sweet treat. See familiar faces, meet new and friendly people, and while Tidewater’s ShinShinim lead...

Monday, September 23, 7:30 pm, ODU’s University Theater A leading voice in klezmer music and Yiddish song for more than 30 years, the Klezmer Conservatory Band (KCB) will appear in concert at Old Dominion University. KCB’s repertoire ranges from Yiddish standards to...

Sunday, October 6, Ohef Sholom Temple, 10:30 am An Ohef Sholom Temple Men’s Club Carpool Cafe will be the occasion for a showing of an important and fascinating documentary film that recounts the story of more than 80 Jewish refugees who were detained in Norfolk...

Begins Saturday, September 14, 9 am What is Judaism? is the name of Ohef Sholom’s course introducing Jewish ideas. The class is open to anyone interested in learning more about the distinctively Jewish way of thinking and relating to life. In recent years, the...

October 29 – November 3 Award-winning Israeli actor Sasson Gabay and star of Beautiful Chilina Kennedy, part of North American Tour cast Winner of 10 Tony awards—including best musical Winner of Grammy award for best musical theater album The Band’s Visit tells a...

Friday, August 23, 6:30 pm Ohef Sholom Temple Join Ohef Sholom Temple for an uplifting, contemporary, especially-musical Shabbat service featuring Rabbi Rosalin Mandleberg, Cantor Jen Reuben, and FNL musicians Marilyn & Bob Johns. Following the service, a catered...

Tuesday, September 17, 12 pm, Bayville Golf Club Tee off with the 31st Annual Bob Josephberg Classic Golf Tournament, presented by Strelitz International Academy (formerly Hebrew Academy of Tidewater), for a good cause and a good time. Golfer registration includes...

Saturdays, August 24 and September 14, 9:30 am It’s getting to be that time of year—time to start thinking about the High Holy Days. For everyone, it’s a time of teshuvah, of returning. For long-time members of the Jewish community, returning can mean anything from...

Wednesday, August 21, 12 pm Simon Family JCC Join the JCC Seniors Club for lunch and a discussion with Chaplain Jim Thompson of Freda H. Gordon Hospice & Palliative Care on how the roles of these two services have changed dramatically in the past decade. Members,...

Every language enables a way of thinking. The language that thinks Jewishly is Hebrew and Ohef Sholom Temple offers myriad opportunities to explore and learn with Hebrew classes for adults and children beginning next month. The adult classes aim to make the prayer...

Shabbos Nacham Friday, August 16–Saturday, August 17 For more than a decade, Rabbi Yosef Friedman was the rabbi of B’nai Israel Congregation, shaping the community and its Torah institutions into the vibrant organizations they are today. He returns for an inspiring...

Hineni is a Jewish values-based innovative Fellowship designed to give the most promising young volunteers insight and skills to enhance their personal and professional lives, as well as to empower them to lead the Jewish community into the future. Are you, or do you...

Tuesdays, August 7, 14, 21; 4–6 pm Alfriends House behind Old Donation Episcopal Church, 4449 N. Witchduck Rd., Virginia Beach Rabbi Ellen Jaffe-Gill of Tidewater Chavurah will present a three-session class, Belonging, Behaving, and Believing. The class will provide a...

Congregations Beth Chaverim and Tidewater Chavurah will see in the Hebrew year 5780 together, holding joint holiday services beginning Sept. 29, 2019. All services will be held in the parish hall of Old Donation Episcopal Church, 4449 N. Witchduck Rd., Virginia Beach....

Sunday, August 25, 9 am 2500 Shore Drive, Virginia Beach Tikkun Olam is the social action concept in Judaism of repairing the world. The Young Adult Division of United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Hands on Tidewater ‘HoT’ programming meets multiple times a year to...

Offering Religious School for preschoolers through 10th grade, Ohef Sholom Temple is committed to raising Reform Jews whose identity is firmly grounded in Torah and Jewish texts, and who are connected to Israel, Jewish history, culture, language, and traditions. OST’s...

REGISTRATION OPEN Tuesday, July 30, 5:30–7 pm, Norfolk Academy, 1585 Wesleyan Drive, Norfolk Wednesday, July 31, 7:30 am–4:30 pm Norfolk Academy Batten Library, 1585 Wesleyan Drive, Norfolk Thursday, August 1, 7:30 am–5 pm, trip to the Virginia Holocaust Museum,...