Veterans’ Day Sunday, November 11, 4 pm | Norfolk Academy The Elbert Watson Dance Company presents Angels Watching Over Me: A Tribute to Veterans Through Dance. This performance is free and open to the public. For information, call 757-461-6236.
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Annual Veterans Day service and celebration honors service to America
Monday, November 12, 9:30 am | Sandler Family Campus In addition to honoring veterans who have served in America’s armed forces, Tidewater Jewish Foundation’s 9th Annual Veterans Day service and celebration honors those who continue to do so with dedication and...
JFS Home Health celebrates National Physical Therapy Month in October
With Physical Therapy Month taking place this month, Jewish Family Service plans to recognize the “incredible work of its amazing physical therapists,” says Jan Ganderson, JFS director of nursing. “Hardly a day goes by that we don’t receive a call in our office...
Great Big Challah Bake ready to rise for fourth time in Tidewater
Thursday, October 25, 7 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus The 4th Annual Great Big Challah Bake will be one of thousands of similar events taking place around the world—and one part of The Shabbat Project —bringing Jews from all walks of life and across the...
Ohef Sholom Temple’s Sisterhood Book Club to feature Skype conversation with author
Tuesday, November 13, 7–8 pm Neville Frankel, author of On The Sickle’s Edge will participate in an interactive discussion by Skype with Ohef Sholom Temple’s Sisterhood Book Club. On The Sickle’s Edge was featured at the Lee & Bernard Jaffe Family Jewish Book...
The National Library of Israel: Curating the past, creating the future
Leon Family Gallery Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus November and December While continuing to serve as Israel’s pre-eminent research library, The National Library of Israel recently embarked upon an ambitious journey of renewal to open access to its treasures and...
Plans to expand Shabbat Project are underway
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.
Tidewater Chavurah’s Second Friday Shabbat Service
Rabbi Ellen Jaffe-Gill will lead Tidewater Chavurah’s second Friday Shabbat service at the home of Hal and Elaine in the Great Neck Meadows area of Virginia Beach.
Beyond Duty: Diplomats Recognized as Righteous Among the Nations at Regent University
An exhibition by the State of Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Leon Family Gallery: Curating the Past, Creating the Future: Selections from the National Library of Israel
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.
Super Sunday to involve all ages
Get ready to “rise up” and be the secret ingredient in the 2019 Annual Campaign by participating in Super Sunday, the annual community phone-a-thon.
Current Events with Seniors
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...
Community Relations Council’s 3rd Annual Israel Poster Contest
Vote March 10–March 27 All entries in the Community Relations Council’s 3rd Annual Israel Poster Contest are on display (and available for voting) in the Sandler Family Campus Cardo. Stop by and cast a vote for an Israel Advocacy poster. The display includes the...
Local rabbis say amen to choice of Tidewater Together Scholar-in-Residence 2nd Annual Tidewater Together
Thursday–Sunday, March 26–29, 2015 When Rabbi Sharon Brous arrives in Virginia Beach on March 26 to begin a four day weekend as the 2nd Annual Tidewater Together Scholarin- Residence, she’ll meet a community that’s curious to find out: how does someone earn the title...
The Maccabeats to perform live
Sunday, March 29, 3 pm, Simon Family JCC The Maccabeats are not “your grandfather’s synagogue choir,” according to their website, but their ideology and identity play an important part in their performances, as they are “strongly committed to the integration of...
Humanitarian Award of the Virginia Center For Inclusive Communities 2015 recipients: Leah and Richard Waitzer
Wednesday, March 25, 5:45 pm, Norfolk Waterside Marriott Leah and Richard Waitzer are the nominees to receive the prestigious Humanitarian Award at the Tidewater chapter of the Virginia Center For Inclusive Communities’ 51st annual dinner. The award is presented to...
Temple Israel Gala to pay homage to Jewish jazz giants Local bandleader brings story of survival to event
Sunday, April 19, 5:45 pm Artie Shaw, Harry James and Benny Goodman. They were the kings of swing in the 1930s and 40s, and they were all Jewish. Temple Israel will recall their contributions to one of the greatest eras in American musical history with “Let’s Shwing:...
Hundreds of costumed young adults expected at Purimpalooza
Saturday, March 7, 8 pm, Sandler Family Campus “The party of the year.” Purimpalooza hasn’t taken place yet, but the buzz from those who have gone to community-wide, Jewish, young adult holiday parties like this one in the past five years, say that it shouldn’t be...
American with a Jewish Accent series: The Rag Race: The Schmatta Trade
Sunday, March 1, 2pm, Jewish Museum and Cultural Center Dr. Adam Mendelsohn, associate professor of Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston, will speak about “The Rag Race: the Schmatta Trade,” as the final lecture in the Jewish Museum and Cultural Center’s...
Why Israelis will save their enemies: Israel Today Forum—Dr. Ofer Merin
Sunday, March 15, 7:30 pm, Sandler Family Campus When faced with a decision over which patient to provide medical treatment to first—an alleged Hamas terrorist in critical condition or one of his victims whose wounds were less severe— the medical staff at an Israeli...
Tidewater Together brings new scholar and ideas
The Tidewater Together community weekend held last year in March was optimistically billed as “the first annual.” Positive thinking and feedback, as well as audiences totaling more than 1,000 over the four days of events, ensured that a “second annual” would be held...
Community Relations Council’s 3rd Annual Israel Poster Contest for first through 12th graders
Deadline for submission: Monday, March 2, 4:30 pm Students throughout Tidewater are eligible to participate in United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Community Relations Council’s third annual Israel Poster Contest. Each student should choose one fact from the list...
Join the mission to bake and create at Operation Hamantaschen
Sunday, Feb. 15, 9 am–3 pm Can you believe it’s already time for Operation Hamantaschen? The triangle- shaped cookies that Jews worldwide associated with the holiday of Purim give this annual Jewish community event its name. At Operation Hamantaschen, toddlers, teens,...
Global disaster relief: first on scene Israel Today with Lt. Col. Dr. Ofer Merin
Sunday, March 15, 7:30, Sandler Family Campus Responsible for setting up the field hospitals in instances of natural disaster, Lt. Col. Dr. Ofer Merin, is also part of the Cardio Thoracic Surgery Department at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, as well as the...
Gidi Grinstein to open Celebrate Israel Series
Thursday, Feb. 26, 7 pm, Simon Family JCC “In working with Gidi Grinstein and his team at the Reut Institute these past few years, we have delved into many topics. I believe Gidi is on the cutting edge of modern Jewish and Zionist thinking,” says David Brand....
Purimpalooza: a costume carnivale for the young adult crowd
Saturday, March 7, 8 pm Known for throwing great, community- wide parties, the Young Adult Division of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater is planning to hold an extravaganza next month at the Sandler Family Campus. In a nod to the international music fest of a...
Chuck Woodward at Ohef Sholom’s Men’s Club Shabbat Service
Friday, Feb. 20, 7:30 pm The Men’s Club at Ohef Sholom Temple’s Annual Men’s Club Shabbat will feature Chuck Woodward, the temple’s music director of 33 years. He will speak about “A Life of Music and Faith.” Woodward will share his personal and professional...
CRC holds 3rd annual Israel poster contest
Deadline for submission: Monday, March 2 The third annual Israel Poster Contest for first through 12th graders is now accepting entrees. The Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater sponsors the contest. Students and teachers can find a...
Family Friendly Fridays at Ohef Sholom
Friday, January 16, 5:45 pm A child-friendly Shabbat evening service with songs and stories led by Rabbi Roz, Cantor Wally and Rabbi Steinberg are the buzz at Ohef Sholom Temple. These abbreviated monthly services, specifically designed for families with infants...
Operation Hamantaschen
Sunday, Feb. 15 9 am–12 pm, or 12–3 pm With the New Year in full swing, some events from last year are back with a new twist. Operation Hamantaschen, a popular collaborative event between the Young Adult Division of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater and the...
Film Festival’s closing night features Mal Vincent and reception
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Sunday, Jan. 25, 5:30 pm, TCC Roper Performing Arts Center For his seventh “Mal’s Pick” night at the Virginia Festival of Jewish Film, presented by Alma* and Howard Laderberg, veteran movie and entertainment critic Mal Vincent. has...
Relating the past to the present: Holocaust Commission announces 2015 student competitions
Earlier this month, the Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater announced the official start of its 2015 Elie Wiesel Student Writing & Visual Arts Competitions. This is the 18th year the Commission has invited students to enter the...