What’s Happening

Sunday, October 23, 8 am–6 pm Congregation Beth El is planning a fun-filled mission to Charlottesville. The trip will include a Jewish-themed tour of Monticello with highlights of the Uriah Levy Jewish connection; a visit and meal at Congregation Beth Israel; and a...

Monday, September 19, Cavalier Golf & Yacht Club, Virginia Beach The 34th Annual Strelitz International Golf Tournament, affectionately known as the Bob Josephberg Classic, is slated to take place next month. For the past 34 years, Strelitz International Academy’s...

Sunday, August 28, 11am, Norfolk Masonic Temple Club 50 is back with an extra deluxe brunch planned. Members married 50 or more years are free. All others are $10 each. Include how many years you have been married with your reservation. RSVP to...

Thursday, August 25, 5:30 pm Sandler Family Campus   Sababa Social Club returns for a summer social for adults only featuring fun, friends, and the band, Fretomology. The event will take place at the Marty Einhorn Pavilion. A local band, Fretomology includes...

Friday, August 19, 5 pm, Simon Family JCC Join PJ Library and PJ Our Way in Tidewater and the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Young Adult Division for this end-of-summer celebration at the Simon Family JCC’s outdoor water park. In addition to extending a warm...

The curtain rises on a dynamic season as Hampton Arts celebrates 35 years of presenting performing and visual arts. Bold and exciting programming brings the very best to venues both historic and new, including The American Theatre, The Charles H. Taylor Visual Arts...

Thursday, August 4 8:30 am–3:30 pm Great Neck Middle School (tentative) Online option available The 15th Biennial Educators’ Conference will take place next month. Presented by United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Holocaust Commission, along with Echoes &...

Wednesday, July 6, 13, 20 and August 24, 7 pm The Jewish Museum and Cultural Center sponsors The Zelma G. Rivin Wonderful Wednesdays Summer Music Series each summer with a diverse lineup. This year is no exception. All concerts are held at The Jewish Museum, also...

Thursday, June 30, 7:30 pm, Sandler Family Campus Who Knows One?, a live show combining Jewish geography and six degrees of separation that began online at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, will take place live in Tidewater. Founded and hosted by Micah Hart, the...

As Camp JCC prepares to open for the summer of 2022, the word that keeps coming to mind is “Back.” Beyond the anticipation of being “back” at Camp JCC, who and what are “back” at Camp JCC is exciting. The campers are back. Enrollment requests poured in this year, and...

Thursday, June 30, 7:30 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus “Jewish Geography” is a concept many Jews know well—conversations in which one person finds out whose sister went to sleepaway camp with whose cousin, and which suburban temple in Illinois shares a family...

Wednesday, April 10, 7:30 pm, Sandler Family Campus On happy occasions we wish each other “Mazel tov!” and when we want something good to happen we hope that we have a little “mazel,” or luck. But good luck doesn’t just drop from the sky. People have more control over...

Saturday, April 6, Bnai Israel Toras Chaim’s Shabbos lunch features an opportunity to see projects and artwork made by students, hear divrei Torah given by students, and view pictures of what is taking place in the local Torah day school. Shabbos Parshas Tazria and...

Sunday, June 2, 2 pm, KBH Kempsville Conservative Synagogue, Kehillat Bet Hamidrash (KBH) just turned 40. The small, but mighty congregation has so much to celebrate. The congregation will officially acknowledge this milestone with an event to be held at the...

First program: Thursday, May 9, 6–9 pm A series for Jewish high school students, Cause An Effect offers students and their parents resources and tools to strategically respond to acts of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel rhetoric currently seen on campuses. The program is...

Saturday, October 19 Hilton Hotel Oceanfront, Virginia Beach Does “We’re the boys of chapter 370, we’ve got plenty of…” sound familiar? If it does, you’re in for a fabulous treat! For many Jewish males who grew up in Tidewater during the early 1960’s through the early...

Tuesday, April 2, 10:45 am–1:15 pm Congregation Beth El Dine, shop, and celebrate Park Place School community partners who are changing children’s lives. Auction and art items for sale starting at 10:45 am. Lunch begins promptly at 11:30 am and will conclude promptly...

Thursday, April 18, 11:30 am, Simon Family JCC The Simon Family JCC will host a seder open to all seniors. Rabbi Israel Zoberman will lead participants in a service followed by a traditional Passover meal. Tickets are $10. The registration deadline is Thursday, April...

Thursday, March 28, 5:45 pm The Westin Virginia Beach Town Center “I am honored to receive the VCIC Humanitarian award on behalf of the outstanding agencies whose endeavors I have been privileged to support,” says Patricia P. Wainger, one of this year’s honorees of...

March 29–31 Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, the highly respected scholar and bestselling author of 18 books, including A Code of Jewish Ethics, Jewish Literacy, and The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism, co-authored with Dennis Prager, will lead a weekend of learning as...

Purim is a particularly dear holiday to me for many reasons. Not only does the holiday celebrate when my namesake saved our people with wit, intellect, and bravery, it also is a time of good cheer to celebrate and have fun with friends—old and new! The nature of Purim...

Thursday, March 21, 5:30 pm, Wyndham Garden Hotel, across from Scope David Crone, an acclaimed ventrilogquist, will bring his array of charming “dummys”—puppets and other props—to life in a hilarious performance, drawing on classic Jewish and Purim-related themes—for...

Attention, college basketball fans! Nadiv, the young men’s giving circle through UJFT’s Young Adult Division (YAD), will host a community-wide fundraiser during the 2019 NCAA tournament. Here’s how it works: Every year in mid-March, the NCAA unveils a 68-team bracket....

The former editor-in-chief of Parade magazine, Janice Kaplan is the author of 14 popular books, including The New York Times bestseller The Gratitude Diaries, which received international praise. Kaplan will speak to the Tidewater community about her latest book, How...

Author Marilyn Simon Rothstein will discuss her latest novel, Husbands and Other Sharp Objects at a luncheon as the Simon Family JCC Book Club celebrates its 100th read. Marilyn Simon Rothstein is the author of Life and Separate, winner of the Star Award, presented by...

Friday, February 22–Saturday, February 23 Congregation B’nai Israel of Norfolk and Keneseth Beth Israel of Richmond are joining forces for a weekend of unity and inspiration in Norfolk. The weekend will kick off with a “Carlebach” style Kabbalat Shabbat. After...

March 2019 Leon Family Gallery at the Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus A young child just learns that her father has died from an accident at work. Who can she talk to about her feelings? How can she cope with this tragic loss? How will her family cope and begin to...

Sunday, February 24, 9:30 am–12:45 pm Sandler Family Campus, $10 An initiative of the Hebrew Academy of Tidewater, Konikoff Center of Learning, Tidewater Learning Connection brings nationally recognized authors, speakers, and expert educators to engage the community...

Thursday, March 28, 2019, 5:45 pm The Westin Virginia Beach Town Center The Humanitarian Award of the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities is presented to those individuals who have demonstrated a personal commitment to the promotion of respect and understanding...

Friday, February 22–Saturday, February 23 Two Orthodox shuls in Virginia have embarked on a journey to bring two Jewish communities closer together. Congregation B’nai Israel of Norfolk and Keneseth Beth Israel of Richmond are joining forces for an innovative program,...