What’s Happening

Leon Family Gallery, Sandler Family Campus Tribes, Tribesmen, For the Young at Heart. Silkscreens, collages, photographs, sculptures, and more than 100 ink and watercolor drawings. Dancers, musicians, masked forms, and women morphing into birds. Contemporary artist...

Sunday, October 17, 6 pm, Zoom Free, open to the community, pre-registration required at JewishVA.org/UnpackingAntisemitism Join the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Jewish Community Relations Council and the Konikoff Center for Learning, along with the Old...

Unpacking Antisemitism: An Action Based Workshop Sunday, October 17, 1 pm Free, open to community, limited space, pre-registration required JewishVA.org/UnpackingAntisemitism United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Jewish Community Relations Council and Konikoff...

Wednesday, October 13, 7:30 pm A noxious new wave of social media antisemitism is spreading. How can it be fought? How can the truth about Israel be shared across digital networks? To answer these questions, Noa Tishby will visit Tidewater to kick off the 11th annual...

October 29–31, Attucks Theater Set in 1959 in a seedy bar in Philadelphia, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill is a re-creation of one of Billie Holiday’s last performances, featuring more than a dozen musical numbers—including such classics as Strange Fruit, God...

The Jewish Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, invites the community to these events with the Robert Nusbaum Center at Virginia Wesleyan University. For more information visit https://www.vwu.edu/academics/robert-nusbaum-center/....

Sunday, September 26, 5:30–7:30 pm Join the Sababa Social Club and the In[HEIR]itance Project in the Sandler Family Campus Sukkah for an introductory artistic salon that examines the history and lived experiences of the people of Hampton Roads in relationship to the...

Soul’s Cycles: A Ride Through the Chapters of Life Thursdays, Beginning October 7, 12 pm Each year, Jewish adults have the ultimate opportunity for renewal. The start of Rosh Hashanah, the head of the year, marks the beginning of a year-long journey of learning,...

Sunday, September 19, 5–7 pm Sandler Family Campus Sukkot is the only Jewish festival with the explicit commandment to rejoice, and PJ Library in Tidewater wants to celebrate with kids and their families. Join PJ Library in the sukkah for a pizza dinner, a life-sized...

Sunday, October 17, 1 pm In partnership with Old Dominion University’s Institute for Jewish Studies & Interfaith Understanding, the Jewish Community Relations Council is hosting an afternoon workshop to learn strategies to fight the rising tide of antisemitism....

Wednesday, October 13, 7:30 pm Actress, producer, author, and activist Noa Tishby, kicks off the Jewish Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, Simon Family JCC, and Community Partners’ 11th Annual Israel Today and Simon Family JCC’s...

On view in the Leon Family Gallery and throughout the Sandler Family Campus through October 31, 2021.  Join the artist for a virtual reception: Sunday, September 12, 1:00 pm Tribes, Tribesmen, For the Young at Heart. Silkscreens, collages, photographs, sculptures, and...

Friday, April 13, 7 pm Tidewater Chavurah’s second Friday of the month Shabbat service will take place at the home of Hal and Elaine in the Great Neck Meadows area of Virginia Beach. A “congregation without walls,” events are held in members’ homes or at other...

Sunday May 6, 2–4 pm Temple Emanuel at Baltic and 25th St. Temple Emanuel’s annual Pink Tea to raise money and awareness for cancer screenings will take place in May. All proceeds go to the Beach Health Clinic for cancer screenings. $12.50 per person. Become a “Pink...

Timing is everything. The number of remaining Holocaust survivors is rapidly decreasing. Thirty live in Tidewater. Several were children in Eastern and Western Europe, but many are Russians or Ukrainians who were young children during WWII. Now they are in their 80s...

Friday, April 13, Ferguson Center, Newport News Saturday, April 14, Chrysler Hall, Norfolk The Virginia Arts Festival will open its 2018 spring season with a stunning birthday party for Leonard Bernstein. The Festival is joining arts organizations on six continents in...

Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 30 In celebration of Israel’s 70th anniversary, the Simon Family JCC will be adorned with a sky full of umbrellas to resemble a similar installation in the streets of Jerusalem and other cities around the world. In fact, the...

Thursday, April 19, 5:30 pm Norfolk Waterside Marriott Volunteer Hampton Roads will honor Kurt Rosenbach with the Lenora Mathews Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding leadership in community service. Rosenbach has served the community by being...

14th Annual Grieving Children’s Art Show March Jewish Family Service counseling staff, through the Dozoretz Center for Healing and Jessica Glasser Therapeutic Pavilion, specializes in helping individuals of all ages cope with loss and grieving. One component of this...

Wednesday, April 18, 12:30 pm, Simon Family JCC Seniors are celebrating Yom HaAtzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, with DJ Eyal Rob of Tel Aviv. As a young thriving nation, Israel has been through radical social transformations in its 70 years. The changes in Israeli...

Thursday, March 29, 12:30 pm Sandler Family Campus Based on an installation of 1,000 umbrellas adorning Yoel Moshe Solomon Street in the historic Nachalat Shiva district of Jerusalem during the summer of 2015, UJFT’s Community Relations Council is launching a similar...

Wednesday, March 21, 12 pm Simon Family JCC and Joseph Fleishmann Memorial Fund of the Tidewater Jewish Foundation present Seniors Seder. Rabbi Israel Zoberman and Cantor Elihu Flax will lead the senior community in a traditional Passover Mini Seder at the Simon...

Tuesday, March 13–Sunday March 18, Chrysler Hall Beautiful, The Carole King Musical, tells the inspiring true story of Carole King’s (Carol Joan Klein) amazing rise to stardom… from being part of a hit songwriting team with her first husband Gerry Goffin, to her...

March 9–March 16 For more than 20 years, Richmond Ballet’s Minds In Motion program has brought students from across Virginia and from all walks of life, to perform together on stage and share the joy of dance. Nearly a decade ago, the program traveled to Israel, and...

Sunday, April 22, 11 am–4 pm Israel only turns 70 once. That’s why organizers of Israel Fest at the Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus are working to make this year’s event one of the most memorable ever—and they need help! How? With authentic Israeli food and music,...

Sunday, March 11, event preview: 2 pm; auction: 3 pm, 952 Indian Lakes Blvd, Virginia Beach Auctioneer Rick Brandwein of Marlin Fine Auctions and Creative Events will bring a variety of media to meet everyone’s pocketbooks and wall space for the 18th annual Matinee...

Friday, March 9—Sunday, March 11 Simon Family JCC and Ohef Sholom Temple present Nefesh Mountain Community Shabbaton* — Open to the Entire Community Friday, March 9 Ohef Sholom Temple Shabbat for Everyone 5:45 pm Family friendly Bluegrass Kabbalat Shabbat 6:30 pm...

As the worldwide Jewish and pro-Israel communities prepare to celebrate Israel’s 70th anniversary, the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater is offering a range of celebratory opportunities with hopes of stretching the community’s imagination through art, by way of...

United Jewish Federation of Tidewater and Virginia Arts Festival present a live multimedia event featuring Israel Story Sunday, April 15, 7:30 pm, the Gallery at Waterside Tickets: $35 Israel Story, the award-winning radio show and podcast, kicks off it’s U.S. tour...