What’s Happening

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,...

Friday, June 14–Saturday, June 15 Ann Zukerman’s appreciation for Torah lectures and tasteful events inspired her family—under the leadership of Herb Zukerman—to initiate an annual Scholar-in-Residence program in her memory. The idea is to bring high quality speakers...

Fridays, September 23, November 4, January 21 and April 21, 5–6:30 pm, free A special family Shabbat program designed for young children and their families at Ohef Sholom Temple, Kids & Kiddush uses prayer, songs, stories and crafts to introduce religious services...

Tuesday, September 20, 7:30 pm,  Sandler Center for the Performing Arts  The Israel Today 2016–2017 season, sponsored by Charles Barker Automotive, begins with visiting expert Dennis Ross, who will discuss his new book, Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship...

Friday, September 9, 7 pm Tidewater Chavurah will hold its second Friday of the month Shabbat service with Rabbi Ellen Jaffe-Gill leading the service at the home of Hal and Elaine in the Great Neck Meadows area of Virginia Beach. An Oneg will follow to give time to...

Sunday, September 18, 1-3 pm The NFL Punt, Pass & Kick competition is a free opportunity to build confidence and it returns to the Simon Family JCC this month. Boys and girls, ages 6–15 compete in the first round, which is the initial step to advancing...

Wednesday, September 14, 7 pm Sandler Family Campus Dr. Aaron Vinik, director of Research and the Neuroendocrine Unit and Murray Waitzer Endowed Chair for Diabetes Research at Eastern Virginia Medical School, will discuss Diabetes and Aging at a free and open to the...

Thursday, September 15, 9–11 am Sandler Family Campus, free with RSVP The Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater will host the next Hampton Roads Diversity and Inclusion Consortium quarterly meeting. The HRDIC provides organizations...

Sunday, September 11 10 am–12 pm Ohef Sholom Temple will host an open house for prospective members to learn about the congregation. Rabbi Rosalin Mandelberg, who brings warmth, vitality and wisdom to her spiritual leadership; Cantor Wally Schachet-Briskin, who...

Thursday, September 15–Sunday, February 19, 2017 Meet the Artist /NEON Festival lecture: Thursday, September 15, 6:30 pm A new installation at the Chrysler Museum of Art invites visitors into the whimsical world of Norfolk-born artist Brian Bress. Opening to the...

Tuesday, September 20, 7:30 pm Sandler Center for the Performing Arts The 6th annual Israel Today forum kicks off with former U.S. peace negotiator, adviser and ambassador, Dennis Ross. Ross will speak about the U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama and the...

Sunday, September 11, 11:30 am to 3 pm Cavalier Golf & Yacht Club  Sisters of Iota Gamma Phi are planning a reunion to “connect with sisters from years past.” To RSVP, send a check for $35 to: Pearl Taylor, P.O. Box 56556, Virginia Beach, VA 23456. A check secures...

Saturday, August 20, 7:30 pm Culturally, what has happened in 50 years? Fifty years ago, people were listening to the Beatles, and still do, but the Beatles no longer perform. F Troop no longer mans its outpost in TV-country, and McHale’s Navy no longer patrols the...

UJFT’s YAD and the Simon Family JCC’s End of Summer Shabbat Dinner and Pool Party Friday, August 26, 5 pm The End of Summer Shabbat dinner is the first of the 2017 Campaign year, and to kick it off, several new and exciting activities are on tap, along with popular...

Kickoff event with Ambassador Dennis Ross in collaboration with Virginia Beach Forum Tuesday, September 20, 7:30 pm sandler Center for the Performing Arts The Simon Family JCC’s Cultural Arts department and the Community Relations Council of the United Jewish...

Sunday, September 11, 7 pm,  United Jewish Community of the Virginia Peninsula  Robert Gillette will speak about his young adult book, Escape to Virginia, in the first event of the Jewish Book Council’s 2016–2017 season. Escape to Virginia tells the true story of how...

Wednesday, September 14, 7 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus  A national leader in basic and clinical Neuropathy, Dr. Aaron Vinik will speak on diabetes and aging at Hadassah’s next meeting. Vinik has defined the heterogenic of neuropathy and has pioneered the use...

September 15, 9–11 am, Sandler Family Campus, free The United Jewish Federation of Tidewater will host the next Hampton Roads Diversity and Inclusion Consortium quarterly meeting. The HRDIC provides organizations with opportunities to share ideas, resources, and...