What’s Happening

For the past 15 years, Jewish Family Service of Tidewater has presented free health awareness events as part of Spring Into Healthy Living, along with the annual JFS Run, Roll or Stroll. Speakers have included physicians from the Cleveland Clinic and Johns Hopkins, in...

Wednesday, May 1, 6:45 pm, Temple Israel Join the community for an evening to honor local Holocaust survivors and remember the six million Jews who were murdered during the Shoah, as well as to hear Dr. Roger Loria’s harrowing experience of escape and survival. Dr....

Leon Family Gallery, Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus April 2019 JDC’s HOME: Lens on Israel, a photography exhibit from Temple Emanu-El’s Bernard Museum of Judaica & Streicker Center in New York, showcases the work of photographers who have documented the...

Leon Family Gallery, Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus May 2019 An artists’ rights organization, Artists 4 Israel advocates for Israel and its freedoms through all artistic media. Their team of international artists (more than 1,000 participating artists representing...

From Remembrance to Independence: Yom HaZikaron to Yom HaAtzmaut Wednesday, May 8, 7:30 pm, Ohef Sholom Temple Free and open to the community with RSVP (Required)  to www.JewishVA.org/IsraelToday As the sun sets on May 8, Israelis and Jews around the world move from...

Wednesday, May 15, 11:30 am–1 pm Sandler Family Campus Seniors have an abundance of programs to choose from at the Simon Family JCC. From museum tours to book clubs, current events discussions to card games, there is no shortage of fun or engaging activities. When it...

Sunday, May 19, 11 am–4 pm as part of Israel Fest at the Sandler Family Campus Artists 4 Israel will be in Tidewater as part of Israel Fest, and the final event in the Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, Simon Family JCC, and...

A two-part series for teens and parents offering resources and tools to strategically respond to anti-Semitism and anti-Israel rhetoric on campus Thursday, May 9, 6–9 pm: ADL and Ambassador Ido Aharoni (for students and parents) Friday, May 17, 4–6 pm: Artists 4...

Sunday, May 12, 6 pm Always the backbone of B’nai Israel Congregation, the B’nai Israel Sisterhood was responsible for a wealth of programs, classes, and fundraisers. They gave the synagogue an aura of energy, fun, and inspiration. The shul is planning a “pass the...

Wednesday, May 15, 8:30 am Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus My journey in becoming a group fitness instructor started with my love of being a participant in classes. I loved the music, the comradery, the variety, and most of all—the instructors. A good instructor...

Sunday, May 19, 11 am–4 pm, Sandler Family Campus This year’s Israel Fest will offer even more ways to experience and celebrate the State of Israel…without leaving Tidewater. Families can visit Tidewater’s own Jerusalem Biblical Zoo and compete in a scavenger hunt;...

Thursday, April 7, reception at 5:45 pm, program and dinner at 6:30 pm Many times a man’s deeds have to be stretched to fit the award. However, in the case of Alvin Wall’s selection by the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities as a recipient of its 2016...

Sunday, March 6, 11 am—2 pm, Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus Recruitment has begun and enlistment is open for the annual community baking effort known as Operation Hamantaschen. Volunteers are needed to help roll, fill, pinch, bake, and box the triangular- shaped...

Sunday, Feb. 21, 2:30 pm, Simon Family JCC. The Horse of Many Colors, presented by the Simon Family JCC’s Children’s Cultural Arts Series, will captivate kids and amuse their parents. The story will be read and danced by a group from Todd Rosenlieb Dance and Virginia...

March 2, 7:30 pm, Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus “Dynamism, eloquence, energy and power,” are just a few words The Times of Israel’s blogger, Howard Feldman, uses to describe Olga Meshoe. The next speaker in the 5th Annual CRC Israel Today series, Meshoe is the...

Sunday, Jan. 31, 2 pm, Virginia Stage Company, Wells Theater Many periods of history have brought African Americans and Jewish Americans together. The two communities share common bonds of often feeling like strangers in their homelands, and sadly, also feeling...

Applications due Monday, Feb. 1 A year-long leadership development program for 40 African American and Jewish high school students in Tidewater, Operation Understanding Hampton Roads (OUHR) is now accepting applications for the relaunch of the program by the Virginia...

Sunday, April 10, 6 pm Barbra, Billy, Barry, Neil, Carole, Carly, Paul, Bob and Bette. Or if you will, Streisand, Joel, Manilow, Diamond, King, Simon, Dylan and Midler. All are on a first name basis with the world, which may not know they are all Jewish. We do, and...

The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) presents The Jewish Course of Why, beginning during the week of February 7 Rabbis Aron Margolin and Levi Brashevitzky of Chabad of Tidewater will conduct The Jewish Course of Why, The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) 2016...

The Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater invites 1st through 12th graders of Tidewater to participate in their fourth annual Israel Poster Contest. Posters will be on display in the Simon Family JCC Cardo during the month of March...

Sunday, Feb. 14, 1:30 pm Would a few injuries and an end to a basketball career in Israel bring a man down? Not Tamir Goodman, who sees the positive in everything, and lives to inspire others. Goodman, dubbed the “Jewish Jordan” by Sports Illustrated in high school,...

Wednesday, March 2, 7:30 pm, Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus The second event in the Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s annual Israel Today series features Olga Meshoe. A South African, Meshoe will discuss her work throughout...

Sunday, Jan. 24, 5:30 pm, Roper Performing Arts Center Mal Vincent, who celebrated his 50th anniversary as a local and syndicated theater, movie and arts critic this year, is host for a rare screening of the comedy Avalon as the closing night feature of the 23rd...

First–12th graders — Deadline: Monday, Feb. 29, 4 pm The Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater invites local first through 12th graders to participate in their fourth annual Israel Poster Contest. A list of ‘cool facts’ about Israel...

Feb. 4–7, Thursday–Sunday, six locations Rabbi Eric Yoffie joins an elite group of rabbis who have visited Tidewater over the past two years to lead the Milton “Mickey” Kramer Scholar-in-Residence Fund’s Annual Tidewater Together: a four day weekend of Jewish...

Sunday, Jan. 17, 2 pm, TCC Roper Performing Arts Center The Eichmann Show is the Holocaustthemed selection at this year’s annual Virginia Festival of Jewish Film, presented by Alma* and Howard Laderberg. The film is based on the true story of groundbreaking producer...

Sunday, Jan. 24, 2–3:30 pm, Slover Library, Norfolk In response to increasing Islamophobia, xenophobia and divisive rhetoric, Standing Together is an initiative to bring diverse groups in Tidewater together to speak out and stand with the Muslim community and others...

Community discussion following Sunday, Jan. 31, 2 pm performance The Hampton Years by Jacqueline Lawton, examines the relationship between a German-Jewish, World War II refugee professor and John Biggers, his art student who ultimately achieves great renown due to his...