What’s Happening

Monday, October 30, 7:30 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus What would you say to your childhood hero if you had the chance to meet? In June, thousands of Israelis got the opportunity to do just that when Bruce Smith, Joe Montana, “Mean” Joe Greene, and 16 other...

November 5–19 Simon Family JCC’s annual Lee & Bernard Jaffe* Family Jewish Book Festival returns with the promise of a great series of author engagements and to expand participants’ minds on such topics as: • Mindfulness and de-stressing, • How the short stories...

Monday, October 2, 7:30 pm, Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus With constant uncertainty and change in the Middle East, it is difficult to stay updated with the most current developments. Still, it is important to stay alert to the difficulties Israel faces from her...

Yoni Alter September Israel-born Yoni Alter’s work is characterized by his bold use of color and his integration between the graphic and artistic, between the figurative and the abstract, and between form and space. Alter studied art and design in Jerusalem before...

Humans in the Public Sphere Sunday, Oct. 8, 10:30 am, Sandler Family Campus Tikun Olam Family Workshop Tuesday, Oct.10, 5:30 pm, Sandler Family Campus Photographs of Tel Aviv and Israelis are seen daily around the world—but how many depict the real Tel Aviv; the Tel...

Menashe opens Friday, Sept. 15 The Women’s Balcony opens Friday, Sept. 22 Two films with Orthodox Jewish themes are planned to screen this month at the Naro Expanded Cinema in Norfolk. The first, in Yiddish, Menashe, takes place in the heart of New York’s...

Monday, September 18, 11 am Sandler Family Campus The Be A Reader literacy program will launch the 2017-2018 school year with a welcome brunch and meeting for volunteers and school captains. Commonly called BeAR, Be A Reader is a literacy program through United Jewish...

Based on the concept that everyone should be a student and that anyone can be a teacher, Tidewater Yom Limmud is an opportunity to teach a workshop on any and all areas of Jewish content. Take part in this festival of Jewish culture through shared learning by teaching...

Sunday, November 12, 1–5 pm, Simon Family JCC Bringing people together of all backgrounds and ages to help nurture, mentor, and celebrate Jewish life and learning for an afternoon, is the goal of Tidewater Yom Limmud. Part of the Simon Family JCC’s Lee and Bernard...

Wednesday, September 13, 1 pm Simon Family JCC For seniors at the JCC, Rosh Hashanah will arrive a bit early this year and include an afternoon of art. Michele Barnes, an artist and art teacher, will lead the group in a painting event. Following the painting portion...

Tuesday, October 17, 12 pm, Simon Family JCC As part of its mission to provide educational classes to Tidewater’s Jewish community, The Norfolk Kollel is partnereing with the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Community Relations Council and Society of...

Saturday, June 1, 8 pm The Young Adult Division of United Jewish Federation of Tidewater will host a celebration of their recent success in the 2013 Annual Campaign. Tidewater’s young leaders have nearly tripled the dollars brought in through the Young Leadership...

Saturday, June 22, 10:30 am Have you ever felt lost in a Jewish Shabbat service? Wondered when to bow or what the Hebrew prayers mean? To help make sense of these customs and to offer insights into the service, Ohef Sholom Temple will offer a four-week series called...

Monday, May 20 at Simon Family JCC Since 1963, May has been a month to appreciate and celebrate the vitality and aspirations of older adults and their contributions. The theme for Older Americans Month 2013 is “Unleash the Power of Age,” and it has never been more...

Sunday, May 19, 5:45 pm Harry and Sue Cohen stepped onto the dance floor as strangers at the Candlelight Supper Club near Ocean View one fateful evening in 1955. Mutual friends suggested they fast dance together. But the bebop stopped. Harry took Sue into his arms for...

Begins May 10 The movie, The Gatekeepers raises profound moral questions through the lens of six retired heads of Israel’s security agency, Israel Security Agency (ISA). It is a powerful, compelling and important movie. While I am neither a moviegoer or movie critic,...

Tuesday, May 28, and Tuesday, June 11, 6:30-7:30 pm Have you have ever felt that you were capable of so much more? When you hear the words lazy, crazy or stupid, do you believe they apply to you? Do you know what needs to be done, but just can’t focus enough to do it?...

Saturday, June 8, 6 pm Ohef Sholom Temple’s Annual FUNdraiser, formerly known as Casino Night, will be Night at the Races, and it promises to be fun-packed. As guests enter the temple, red velvet ropes will separate them from the “thoroughbreds” who will race later in...

Sunday, April 28, 3:30 pm Drawing on a range of ladino, klezmer and Middle Eastern music and instruments, The Shuk combines a variety of styles to create an unforgettable cultural experience. The group was formed in 2008 as part of an initiative by The European...

Saturday, June 8, 6 pm With the Belmont Stakes taking place in real time on the big screen, Ohef Sholom Temple’s “Night at the Races” promises to be an evening of fast track excitement. The event includes dinner, an open bar, a DJ and “gambling” with “funny money,”...

Wednesday, May 1, 7 pm Since January, community members have gathered in four different area synagogues, watched four different films about Israel, and have had four very distinguished rabbis lead them in discussions about what they had just seen and heard. The fifth...

Sunday, May 19, 5:45 pm From rumba to swing, and cha-cha to hora, Temple Israel will rock with music by The Hotel Paradise Roof Garden Orchestra, led by WHRO’s Lynn Summeral, with jazz singer Becky Livas crooning old favorites. The dinner planners and decorations...

Friday, April 26, 6:30 pm and Saturday, April 27, 9 am The last weekend of April will be a joyous one for two Norfolk synagogues when Temple Israel and Ohef Sholom Temple continue their annual tradition of hosting each other’s congregants throughout a Shabbat. On...

Sunday, April 21, 2:30 pm at Cinema Café, Pembroke Meadows Nearly a quarter century after its release, Barry Levinson’s film, Avalon, remains as poignant, funny, and quintessentially Jewish as it was at its 1990 premiere. The Women’s Outreach Committee of the United...

Sunday, May 5, 10:30 am For more than 30 years, the Ohef Sholom Temple Men’s Club has bestowed the Henry B. Kaufmann Award upon a congregant for extraordinary service to the temple and the entire community. Henry B. Kaufmann, an accountant by trade, was extremely...

Sunday, May 5, 2 pm The community is invited to a Pink Tea at Temple Emanuel to honor Women Cancer survivors. This is an opportunity to hear how “Your Good Health is in Your Hands” with a panel of health experts including Dr. Celeste Bremer, oncologist; Cori Damuth,...

Sunday April 28, 12:30–5 pm The 2013 Israel Festival at the Simon Family JCC welcomes people from every background and religion to an afternoon of celebration. The Israel Festival aims to reach beyond the Jewish community to those who are looking for a taste of...