What’s Happening

Sunday, May 1, 31st Street Park Virginia Beach Oceanfront 5K Run/Walk: begins at 8 am 1 Mile Run/Walk: begins at 9am Jewish Family Service of Tidewater’s annual Run, Roll, or Stroll race as part of its Spring Into Healthy Living returns to the Virginia Beach...

Tuesday, May 3, 6 pm, Sandler Family Campus You may have heard that America is moving away from fossil fuels and to renewables to generate clean energy to power homes, businesses, and other structures. Well, that’s very good news for Hampton Roads because Dominion...

Clean up and burial Sunday, May 22, 9 am–11:30 am Mikro Kodesh Cemetery The Young Men’s Giving Circle, NADIV, led the Jewish community in a cleanup of Mikro Kodesh Cemetery in Chesapeake last October. Parts of the cemetery had succumbed to nature and time, but as...

31st Street Park, Virginia Beach Oceanfront 5K Run/Walk: begins at 8 am 1 Mile Run/Walk: begins at 9am Jewish Family Service of Tidewater’s annual Run, Roll, or Stroll race as part of its Spring Into Healthy Living returns to the Virginia Beach Oceanfront on Sunday,...

Monday, April 25 St. John’s Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, 10:30 am Robin Hixon Theater, Clay and Jay Barr Education Center, 7:30 am A regular and beloved guest on the world’s great concert stages, the Jerusalem Quartet visits Tidewater for two concerts with the...

March 24–August 14, Chrysler Museum of Art The extensive collection of Torah pointers assembled by Clay Barr is the first exhibition of Judaica at the Chrysler Museum of Art in several decades. Approximately 150 Torah pointers, or yads, from the Barr Foundation...

Monday, April 11, 6 pm, Ohef Sholom Temple Karen Baum Gordon, author of The Last Letter: A Father’s Struggle, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust, will discuss second and third generation Holocaust Survivors and what that means for the future....

May 5 and 6, 7:30 pm; May 7, 2:30 pm Attucks Theater This brand new play, Exodus: Homecoming, is debuting as part of the Virginia Arts Festival 25th Anniversary Season at the Historic Attucks Theatre. Inspired by the inherited Exodus narrative, this funny and...

Wednesday, April 27, 6:45 pm, Congregation Beth El In-person as well as live streamed on www.facebook.com/holcommission The annual community Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, will feature Dr. Al Munzer as the guest speaker. Munzer was hidden as a child in the...

Sunday, April 24, 4:30 pm, Susan S. Goode Fine and Performing Arts Center, Virginia Wesleyan University It is in divine moments when I know for sure—art is an essential element of life. It is also in these moments I am reminded of the light from all the stars—the...

A global, grassroots movement that brings Jews from across the world together around the shared heritage of Shabbat, the Shabbat Project initiative was introduced in South Africa in 2013. In the days that followed, the Jewish world heard, and was inspired by, how the majority of the community kept Shabbat, and how Jews were brought together in unprecedented ways.

An exhibition by the State of Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Highlighting the four central collections at the impressive National Library of Israel, this exhibit will focus on the spiritual realm—with sacred books, sacred places, and mysticism, as well as the ethnographic and secular realm—with Israeli culture, Hebrew/Jewish language.

Current Events with Seniors Thursdays 10:30 am–12 noon 237 Simon Family JCC Join a stimulating discussion on local, international, and world-wide topics. It is always an interesting and fun time.  For further information, call Bernice Greenberg at...

NEXUS Interfaith Dialogue Gender Roles and Religion Monday, October 8, 7:30 pm Virginia Wesleyan’s Batten Student Center, Pearce Hospitality Suite Panelists Rev. Kim Hodges, Pastor of Lynnhaven Colony Congregational, United Church of Christ (Protestant); Rabbi Rosalin...

Join the senior community to celebrate Sukkot this year with Senior Art in the Sukkah.

One hundred years ago, Ohef Sholom Temple moved to the corner of Stockley Gardens and Raleigh Avenue, constructing the congregation’s magnificent sanctuary. While over the course of the century, nearly every other aspect of the synagogue’s structure has undergone renovations and additions, the sanctuary has remained a constant, with only minor adjustments made to assure its use in a contemporary world and restoration efforts rendered to preserve its beauty. It has been a place of worship, celebration, and mourning. For generations, the sanctuary has been home for Ohef Sholom’s congregants.

Wonder Woman On Her Flesh: Queer Jewish Women and Pride Tattoos Thursday, October 4, 11 am–12 pm Virginia Wesleyan’s Blocker Hall Auditorium The pink triangle has gone from a stigmatizing Holocaust symbol to an emblem of LGBTQ pride. Similarly, Jewish women using...

For many Jews around the world, Israel remains central to their identity, inspiring the hopes and dreams of the Jewish people. Every single day, the brave men and women of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) risk their lives to protect those hopes and dreams. Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) is devoted to supporting these defenders of Israel with educational and wellbeing programs and facilities. Since 1981, FDIF has played an important role in ensuring that IDF soldiers are cared for while carrying out their crucial tasks.

Join the senior community for a special workshop with Israel Today’s artist-in-residence Hanoch Piven.

Israel Today’s first ever artist-in-residence, Hanoch Piven, will lead two workshops during Super Sunday. The hands-on family workshops encourage creativity, communication, and self-reflection through the creation of collages with common, everyday objects. Piven conveys the message that playfulness is an important tool to be used to generate a space in which individual self-reflection and growth are possible.

Super Sunday comes early this year, so mark calendars and get ready to “rise up.” Be the secret ingredient which makes a successful 2019 Annual Campaign—make the call, take the call, donate — and make a difference in the lives of Jews at home and around the world

The Lee and Bernard Jaffe* Family Jewish Book Festival has fall reads for book clubs. Register a community book club and receive the following exclusive perks: discounts on group tickets, reserved seating with book club at author events, book club mention during...

Sunday, October 21, 10 am–1 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus The Tidewater Jewish community’s annual fundraising phone-a-thon, Super Sunday is a volunteer-driven day. Super Sunday is being held earlier than in previous years to accelerate the Annual Campaign and...

Thursday, Nov. 29, 6 pm Hilton Virginia Beach Oceanfront Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) from all areas of the Commonwealth of Virginia will gather for the first-ever FIDF Virginia Chapter Gala to support well-being and educational programs for the IDF...

What better way to start off the New Year, than with a little bit of cleaning? When Israel Today’s first ever Artist-in-Residence, Hanoch Piven, arrives in Tidewater, supplies will be needed. In order to have a workshop based on found objects, the Community Relations...