Wonder Woman On Her Flesh: Queer Jewish Women and Pride Tattoos Thursday, October 4, 11 am–12 pm Virginia Wesleyan’s Blocker Hall Auditorium The pink triangle has gone from a stigmatizing Holocaust symbol to an emblem of LGBTQ pride. Similarly, Jewish women using...
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Celebrating 70 Years of Heroes and Hope
For many Jews around the world, Israel remains central to their identity, inspiring the hopes and dreams of the Jewish people. Every single day, the brave men and women of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) risk their lives to protect those hopes and dreams. Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) is devoted to supporting these defenders of Israel with educational and wellbeing programs and facilities. Since 1981, FDIF has played an important role in ensuring that IDF soldiers are cared for while carrying out their crucial tasks.
Collage workshop with Hanoch Piven for Seniors
Join the senior community for a special workshop with Israel Today’s artist-in-residence Hanoch Piven.
Celebrated artist to conduct workshops
Israel Today’s first ever artist-in-residence, Hanoch Piven, will lead two workshops during Super Sunday. The hands-on family workshops encourage creativity, communication, and self-reflection through the creation of collages with common, everyday objects. Piven conveys the message that playfulness is an important tool to be used to generate a space in which individual self-reflection and growth are possible.
Super Sunday moves to October and makes plan to engage all ages
Super Sunday comes early this year, so mark calendars and get ready to “rise up.” Be the secret ingredient which makes a successful 2019 Annual Campaign—make the call, take the call, donate — and make a difference in the lives of Jews at home and around the world
Become a Book Club Insider
The Lee and Bernard Jaffe* Family Jewish Book Festival has fall reads for book clubs. Register a community book club and receive the following exclusive perks: discounts on group tickets, reserved seating with book club at author events, book club mention during...
Leon Family Gallery: Faces: Portraits from Madonna to the Pope
Leon Family Gallery, Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus October Faces: Portraits from Madonna to the Pope Hanoch Piven Giving the art of caricature an innovative look while shedding new light on today’s most familiar faces, Israel Today Artistin- Residence’s Hanoch...
Super Sunday is early this year
Sunday, October 21, 10 am–1 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus The Tidewater Jewish community’s annual fundraising phone-a-thon, Super Sunday is a volunteer-driven day. Super Sunday is being held earlier than in previous years to accelerate the Annual Campaign and...
Leon Family Gallery: Shana Tova! Rosh Hashanah Greeting Cards from the 1920s–1940s
Leon Family Gallery | Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus | September Shana Tova! Rosh Hashanah Greeting Cards from the 1920s–1940s Shana Tova greeting cards are a surprisingly ancient tradition—dating back to 14th century Germany and preceding Christmas cards by...
Friends of the IDF to hold first Virginia Gala
Thursday, Nov. 29, 6 pm Hilton Virginia Beach Oceanfront Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) from all areas of the Commonwealth of Virginia will gather for the first-ever FIDF Virginia Chapter Gala to support well-being and educational programs for the IDF...
One person’s trash is another’s art work
What better way to start off the New Year, than with a little bit of cleaning? When Israel Today’s first ever Artist-in-Residence, Hanoch Piven, arrives in Tidewater, supplies will be needed. In order to have a workshop based on found objects, the Community Relations...
Registration open for Hebrew Academy of Tidewater’s Bob Josephberg Classic Golf Tournament
The 30th Annual Hebrew Academy of Tidewater’s Bob Josephberg Classic, which raises money for Hebrew Academy of Tidewater and Strelitz Early Childhood Education Center, will include a continental breakfast, on course lunch, beverages, snacks, and a post-tournament awards reception and dinner.
Tennis Pro brings new programs to JCC
Pickle-ball anyone? Learn how to play this fast growing sport, as well as tennis when tennis pro Carl Earnshaw brings his racquet programs to the Simon Family JCC. Involved in playing and promoting tennis since 1977, Earnshaw has taught and coached extensively as a...
Israeli Scouts to perform at Simon Family JCC
Monday, June 23, 6:30 pm Ten 17-year-old Israeli Scouts, along with two leaders, will visit the Simon Family JCC to perform and visit with JCC campers during the following day. The Scouts, or Tzofim, are teens from all over Israel. Each Friendship Caravan consists of...
Art from Beth Sholom Village on display at the Simon Family JCC
Tuesday, July 1 through Friday, July 18 Sunday, July 13, 11:30 am–1:30 pm, reception Beth Sholom Village will display and sell artwork from its residents in the Leon Family Gallery at the Simon Family JCC next month. Those who have walked into Beth Sholom Village...
Holocaust Commission Student Art Exhibition
Through June 7, 8 am–10 pm, Old Dominion University Virginia Beach The Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s annual student art exhibit is currently on display in the Atrium of the Virginia Beach Higher Education Center, 1881 University...
Rachelle Friedman promotes new book
Tuesday, June 3, 7 pm, Barnes & Noble, Virginia Beach Just weeks prior to her wedding, Rachelle Friedman was playfully pushed into the pool at her bachelorette party. At that moment, her life changed forever. Friedman will speak about her new book, The Promise: A...
Kid’s programming at B’nai Israel
What is there to do at Shul?Children are not always ready for the grownup services, primarily because they are not as meaningful as they might be to an adult and it is hard to sit still without fidgeting. Over the past few months, B’nai Israel has completely...
The Deloreans are coming!
Saturday, June 14, 7 pm, Ohef Sholom Temple “Go back to the ’80s” at Ohef Sholom Temple’s annual casino-style event, which will feature the ‘80s tribute band, The Deloreans. It’s been said, “when you go to a Deloreans show, you feel like you’re actually back in the...
Second Saturday is a big hit at Temple Israel
Temple Israel is giving its members a choice on the second Saturday of each month. Arrive at 9:15 am for a traditional service in the sanctuary or go downstairs at 11 am to the more intimate Sandler Hall for an engaging program like no other perhaps in the country....
GAGA for Camp JCC with time to save on fees
Sunday, June 1, 1–4 pm Get revved up for the summer at Camp JCC at an open house social filled with games, pool fun and other activities. New and returning campers are invited for pool games and a pool party in the Simon Family JCC splash park, to enjoy Putt-Putt and...
Brunch to celebrate Alene Jo Kaufman
Sunday, June 1, 11:30 am To honor Alene Kaufman’s 36 years of dedication to the Hebrew Academy of Tidewater Konikoff Center of Learning and Strelitz Early Childhood Center, a brunch will take place at the Sandler Family Campus. Kaufman will retire as director of the...
Business professionals tackle discussion of pro sports and arena proposals Scoring Big: Bringing the Pros to Hampton Roads
Tuesday, May 27, 5:30 pm, Harbor Park, Norfolk. For business and legal professionals. It’s not time to decide the winners just yet, but big league players, in the form of two business alliances, are lining up to win the rights to build and manage a new 18,000-seat...
Elie Wiesel student competitions continue to engage young minds
Student Holocaust Commission art exhibit opening reception Tuesday, May 20, 5–7 pm, in the Atrium, ODU Virginia Beach More than 1,400 students entered the 2014 Elie Wiesel Writing and Visual Arts Competitions presented by the Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish...
Artwork of Lorraine Fink, On the Run/To or From
Tuesday, May 13- Wednesday, June 18th Images of anthropomorphic animal shapes will soon be seen joyfully dancing, flying and swimming across the walls of the Leon Family Art Gallery at the Simon Family JCC. In her show, On the Run/ To or From, award winning artist,...
Co-producer and editor of The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers talks about the film
Free Yom Ha’atzmaut film screening—Tuesday, May 6, 7 pm In observance of Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel Independence Day, the Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, in partnership with the Simon Family JCC’s Celebrate Israel series, will...
Forty years a rabbi: Rabbi Israel Zoberman
Sunday, June 1, 3 pm Rabbi Israel Zoberman , founding rabbi of Congregation Beth Chaverim in Virginia Beach, will celebrate his 40th ordination anniversary at the synagogue next month. Born in 1945 in Chu, Kazakhstan (USSR) to Polish Holocaust survivors who had met in...
Exhibit features selections from the annual Elie Wiesel Visual Arts Competition for Students
May 19–June 6 Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 20, 5–7 pm, ODU Virginia Beach Judges for the 12th annual Elie Wiesel Visual Arts Competition for students say the level of artistry and complexity of thought they found in student entries this year astounded them....
The Business and Legal Society debates the question: If they build it will we come?
Tuesday, May 27, 5:30 pm The upcoming “Scoring Big: Bringing the Pros to Hampton Roads” will serve three important purposes: it will tackle a timely subject for Hampton Roads, it will introduce two sports business people at the top of their profession and, finally, it...
A game changer for Israelis — how the Iron Dome anti-missile system is saving lives
Sunday, May 18, 7 pm Israel has four layers of missile-based interception systems, all of which have been used on a regular basis to try to save Israeli lives from terrorist attacks. Arrow 3 intercepts threats at long ranges in outer space. Arrow 2 intercepts medium...
Israel: The Royal Tour, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and CBS Travel Editor Peter Greenberg, Premieres on Public Television, local WHRO (Cox Channel 15)
One-hour special — Sunday, May 11, 6 pm Israel: The Royal Tour is an up-close-and-personal journey with special guide, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. The latest in the Royal Tour series hosted by CBS News Travel Editor Peter Greenberg, Israel: The...
The flower and the torch
Sunday, May 4, 7:15 pm In Hebrew, the flower Red Everlasting is called “Dam HaMacabim,” the Blood of the Maccabees. The name comes from a legend that red flowers grew wherever a Maccabee’s blood fell to the ground. The Dam HaMacabim has become a symbol of Yom...