What’s Happening

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,...

Sunday, March 31, 4–7 pm Uno’s Pizzeria and Grill, 5900 Virginia Beach Boulevard, Norfolk Items at the Jewish Museum and Cultural Center’s Second Annual Silent Auction include antiques and art objects, gift cards for restaurants, services, merchandise, and leisure...

The Simon Family JCC Book Club had its beginnings in 2008 under the leadership of Sherry Lieberman, then senior adult program coordinator. Over the past 10 years, the Club has read and discussed 128 books and three short stories, as well as watched three movies...

Through February Leon Family Gallery Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus Hillel Smith is an artist and graphic designer who reimagines Judaica’s potential by utilizing contemporary media to create new manifestations of traditional forms. Smith has painted dynamic...

Tuesday, February 12, 12 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus Lunch $12/Lunch and signed book $50 Artist Hillel Smith will discuss his book, Parsha Posters, over lunch, and then conduct a gallery tour of the exhibit, which is on display in the Leon Family Gallery...

Wednesday, Dec. 16, 7 pm The 23rd annual Simon Family JCC Virginia Festival of Jewish Film, presented by Alma* and Howard Laderberg, which takes place in January, is kicking off early with a pre-event film this month. A film festival extra, Rosenwald will screen at...

Wednesday, Dec. 16, 7 pm The 23rd annual Simon Family JCC Virginia Festival of Jewish Film, presented by Alma* and Howard Laderberg, begins next month with a pre-event film. A film festival extra, Rosenwald, will screen at the Naro Expanded Cinema. It is the...

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 7 pm, Business & Legal Society and Maimonides Societies of UJFT Thursday, Dec. 3, 12 pm, Women’s Division of UJFT, Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus Viva Sarah Press has her finger on the pulse of Israel’s creativity in the fields of...

Thursday, Nov. 12, noon, Simon Family JCC Sarah Wildman will present Paper Love: Searching for the Girl my Grandfather Left Behind at the Lee and Bernard Jaffe*Family Jewish Book Festival’s annual Holocaust luncheon. This journalist details her search to shed light on...

Sunday, Nov. 15, 2 pm, Sandler Family Campus The conclusion of the Lee and Bernard Jaffe* Family Jewish Book Festival coincides this year with the 6th annual Global Day of Jewish Learning. In 2010, The Global Day was created to celebrate the completion of Rabbi...

Wednesday, Nov. 18, 7:30 pm, Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus The Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater and community partners’ fifth annual Israel Today series includes three visiting experts under the age of 40, beginning with...

Saturday, Oct. 23—Saturday, Oct. 24 Jewish people will gather in hundreds of cities around the world for the second international Shabbat Project next month. The concept is simple: Jews of all walks of life, from across the spectrum—religious, secular and traditional;...

Sunday, Oct. 18, 2:30 pm Simon Family JCC When members of the Virginia Opera’s Herndon Emerging Artist program perform Trickster’s Trilogy this year’s traveling fall show, their goal is to inspire young ones in the audience. Three little operas in one, Tricksters...

Saturday, Oct. 24, 8 pm, Simon Family JCC Hear favorite songs performed at the Simon Family JCC’s first ever Dueling Pianos evening. Formed in 2011 by Jacob Wolfson in Baltimore, Cutting Edge Dueling Pianos now has approximately 10 performing pianists. Two of these...

Jewish Family Service of Tidewater’s Helping Hearts project Sunday, Oct. 11, 1–5 pm, Simon Family JCC, free Screening of I’ll Be Me, 2 pm Shopping and a free movie? Sounds like a great day! Jewish Family Service of Tidewater is hosting the 2nd Annual Holiday Stop...

Peninsula Community Theatre in Newport News, through Sunday, Oct. 18 Friday and Saturday nights at 8 pm; Sundays at 2:30 pm No stranger to the stage, 13-yearold Elizabeth Hughes has appeared in professional and community theater, school, dance and summer camp...

Friday, Oct. 23–Saturday, Oct. 24 Jewish people will gather in hundreds of cities around the world for the international Shabbat Project. The concept is simple: Jews of all walks of life, from across the spectrum—religious, secular and traditional; young and old, from...

Wednesday, Sept. 30, 7 pm, Sandler Family Campus Partnering with the Christian Broadcasting Network, the Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater invites the community to a free screening and discussion of The Hope: The Rebirth of...

Sunday, Oct. 11, 1–5 pm, Sandler Family Campus More than 25 direct sales and community vendors and crafters will participated in Jewish Family Service of Tidewater’s 2nd Annual Holiday Stop & Shop at the Sandler Family Campus. Among those displaying their wares...

Henna House author: Tuesday, Nov. 10, 7 pm, Simon Family JCC The annual “community read” book for the Simon Family JCC’s Lee and Bernard Jaffe* Jewish Book Festival is now available for purchase. Henna House is an evocative and stirring novel about a young woman...

Live via Satellite at Beth El — Sunday, Oct. 18, 7:15 pm In a post-Iran deal world, after all of the turmoil and debate in Washington, D.C. and within the global Jewish community, one cannot help but wonder about the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship. While the...

Sunday, Sept. 20, 10 am–12:30 pm Learn about Ohef Sholom at an Open House. Meet the temple’s clergy: Rabbi Rosalin Mandelberg, Cantor Wally Schachet- Briskin, and Rabbi Arthur Steinberg. Tour the building including its Greek Revival sanctuary, which will celebrate its...