Originally published in the February 8, 2021 issue. Friday, February 26, 7 pm Ready to rock 'n roll with the Tidewater Chavurah, as Rabbi Ellen Jaffe-Gill reads the Meggilah? Remember, it's a mitzvah to enjoy oneself to the fullest and get so happy that it's...
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Israel Today Presents: Israel Story, An Intergenerational Conversation!
Originally published in the January 25, 2021 issue. Wednesday, January 27, 12 pm, free The Jewish Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, Simon Family JCC, Embassy of Israel, & Community Partners' 10th Annual Israel Today,...
Jewish Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Virtual Date With The State 2021
Originally published in the January 25, 2021 issue. Wednesday February 3, 10 am Come together (virtually) with Jewish community leaders from across the Commonwealth to hear from Governor Ralph Northam and other policy makers on issues important to the statewide Jewish...
Temple Israel’s 1st Thursday: The potential for peace between Palestinians and Israelis
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...
Lawrence Steingold to receive VCIC Humanitarian Award
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...
2 for Seder pivots with virtual direction
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...
An American Daughter
March 13– April 5, Little Theater of Virginia Beach Little Theater of Virginia Beach is performing An American Daughter by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning author, Wendy Wasserstein. Dr. Lyssa Hughes seemingly has it all, including the President’s nomination for...
Unorthodox LIVE in Tidewater
Thursday, March 19, 7:30 pm, Zeiders American Dream Theater Podcasts are a new pulpit for Jewish conversation, and one of the most popular, Unorthodox, a Tablet Magazine production, will be in Tidewater for a live taping. The hosts, Liel Leibovitz, Stephanie Butnick,...
VCIC to honor Jay Klebanoff with Humanitarian Award, and Amy K. Milligan with Jeffrey B. Spence Award for Interfaith Understanding
Wednesday, March 25, 5:45 pm, The Westin, Virginia Beach Town Center The Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities will honor Jay Klebanoff with the Humanitarian Award, and Dr. Amy K. Milligan with the Jeffrey B. Spence Award for Interfaith Understanding, at their...
Temple Israel presents A Night of Chuckles and Chopsticks
Sunday, April 26, Temple Israel, 6 pm Professional stand-up Jewish comedian Robin Fox will headline at Temple Israel for A Night of Chuckles and Chopsticks. This “Real Housewife” was the funniest lady at the PTA and bus stop before deciding to move her act to the...
16th Annual Grieving Children’s Art Show
March 1–27, Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus A local teen learns that her parent has terminal cancer. The parent gets weaker and weaker, and then dies. Who can this teen talk to who will understand what it is like to lose a parent? Many children and teens will...
Photographer Amos Nachoum: The Picture of his Life
Leon Family Gallery Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus Through March Revered as one of the greatest photographers of all time, Amos Nachoum has always been fascinated, but never deterred, by the most fearsome creatures on earth, including great white sharks and the...
Author Ali Katz brings mindfulness to Tidewater
Wednesday, Nov. 15, 11 am, Simon Family JCC Ali Katz is a mindfulness guru. Her mission is to inspire people across the globe to leave stress and guilt behind and to embrace a life full of balance, presence, and joy. Katz began her journey when she realized that as a...
Tidewater’s 3rd Annual Great Big Challah Bake
Thursday, Oct. 26, 7 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus In 2013, on the Thursday evening before the first Shabbos Project in Johannesburg, South Africa, 2,500 women gathered to share in the joy and tradition of making challah. The Shabbos Project’s goal is to unite...
Congregation Beth El commemorates Kristallnacht
Thursday, Nov. 9, 6:30 pm, Beth El “Evil does not need your help, only your indifference.” These are the words of Holocaust survivor Hanns Loewenbach, z’l—and he would know—as he was in his hometown of Berlin the night of Nov. 9, 1938 and witnessed the flames,...
Tidewater joins International Yom Limmud movement
Sunday, Nov. 12, 1–5 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus Yom Limmud (Hebrew for “learning”) promotes global Jewish unity by offering an inclusive cross-communal space for Jews of all ages and backgrounds to meet, learn, volunteer, and build community. Since its’...
3rd Annual Great Big Challah Bake
Thursday, October 26, 7 pm, Sandler Family Campus The 3rd Annual Great Big Challah Bake is slated to take place as a lead-up to the globally scheduled Shabbat Project, observed from sundown Friday, October 27 until sundown Saturday, October 28. This year’s Challah...
Touchdown, Israel with Bruce Smith
Monday, October 30, 7:30 pm, Sandler Family Campus, free Bruce Smith is no stranger to the spotlight. The defensive end holds the NFL career record for quarterback sacks, with 200. Smith was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009, and the College Football...
Up now and next in the Leon Family Gallery
Erez Kaganovitz: Humans of Tel Aviv October The photojournalist behind Humans of Tel Aviv, Erez Kaganovitz has photographed thousands of Tel Aviv citizens, capturing their stories to share with the world. As Kaganovitz told Haaretz, “I’m not trying to bend reality; I...
Families: Get cameras and imaginations ready
Tuesday, October 10, 5:30 pm Simon Family JCC Erez Kaganovitz, photojournalist and creator of Humans of Tel Aviv, has an educational and fun event planned for families when he visits Tidewater as part of the Simon Family JCC, CRC, community partners’ Israel Today...
Israel’s relationship with the United Nations
Mark Goldfeder, senior lecturer at Emory Law School and senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory Tuesday, October 17, 7:30 pm Sandler Family Campus “So long as institutions like the United Nations continue to issue one-sided statements...
Essential Israel: Voices of the 21st Century, Dr. Rachel Fish
Tuesday, November 14, 7:30 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus What is the Arab/ Israeli conflict and why hasn’t it been resolved? What explains the failure of American diplomatic efforts to bring about peace in the Middle East? Can Israel be both a Jewish and a...
Tidewater Yom Limmud Festival of Jewish Ideas
Sunday, November 12, 1–5 pm, Simon Family JCC Bringing people together of all backgrounds, religious affiliations, and ages to nurture, mentor, and celebrate Jewish life and learning for an afternoon is Tidewater Yom Limmud’s goal. In addition to offering interactive...
Dr. Mark Goldfeder Attorney, rabbi, and law professor to educate different audiences
Tuesday, October 17, Simon Family JCC Continuing Legal Education: 12–4 pm, $150 includes class and lunch Society of Professional networking event: 6–7 pm, $10 cover Community event: 7:30–8:30 pm, free A quick, one-day trip to Tidewater by Dr. Mark Goldfeder will...
Touchdown, Israel
Monday, October 30, 7:30 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus What would you say to your childhood hero if you had the chance to meet? In June, thousands of Israelis got the opportunity to do just that when Bruce Smith, Joe Montana, “Mean” Joe Greene, and 16 other...
Lee & Bernard Jaffe* Family Jewish Book Festival
November 5–19 Simon Family JCC’s annual Lee & Bernard Jaffe* Family Jewish Book Festival returns with the promise of a great series of author engagements and to expand participants’ minds on such topics as: • Mindfulness and de-stressing, • How the short stories...
The Perfect Storm: What regional turmoil means for the State of Israel
Monday, October 2, 7:30 pm, Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus With constant uncertainty and change in the Middle East, it is difficult to stay updated with the most current developments. Still, it is important to stay alert to the difficulties Israel faces from her...
Up now and next in the Leon Family Gallery
Yoni Alter September Israel-born Yoni Alter’s work is characterized by his bold use of color and his integration between the graphic and artistic, between the figurative and the abstract, and between form and space. Alter studied art and design in Jerusalem before...
Humans of Tel Aviv founder Erez Kaganovitz changes the narrative
Humans in the Public Sphere Sunday, Oct. 8, 10:30 am, Sandler Family Campus Tikun Olam Family Workshop Tuesday, Oct.10, 5:30 pm, Sandler Family Campus Photographs of Tel Aviv and Israelis are seen daily around the world—but how many depict the real Tel Aviv; the Tel...
3rd Annual Great Big Challah Bake
Thursday, October 26, 7 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus Want to enjoy the fragrance of yeast rising, laugh, and share community with hundreds of women, and then experience the deep satisfaction of baking a challah for Shabbat? This year, the 3rd Annual Great Big...
Films in Yiddish and Hebrew at NARO
Menashe opens Friday, Sept. 15 The Women’s Balcony opens Friday, Sept. 22 Two films with Orthodox Jewish themes are planned to screen this month at the Naro Expanded Cinema in Norfolk. The first, in Yiddish, Menashe, takes place in the heart of New York’s...
BeAR Literacy program invites new volunteers and welcomes returning members
Monday, September 18, 11 am Sandler Family Campus The Be A Reader literacy program will launch the 2017-2018 school year with a welcome brunch and meeting for volunteers and school captains. Commonly called BeAR, Be A Reader is a literacy program through United Jewish...