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Cuba? Bucket list? Not on it for most of us, and by most of us, I mean the 28 women who signed on for last month’s United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s/Joint Distribution Committee sponsored women’s mission to Havana Cuba, led by mission chairs Laura Gross and Jodi...

Sunday, Nov. 4–Sunday, Nov. 18 The Cardo area of the Sandler Family Campus will be filled with books of all shapes and sizes next month when the Simon Family JCC presents The Lee and Bernard Jaffe* Family Jewish Book Festival 2012. In conjunction with its partner,...

Thursday, Oct. 25, 7 pm Represenative Scott Rigell and challenger Paul Hirschbiel will participate in a forum at the Sandler Family Campus, to which the community is invited and encouraged to attend. Jewish News presented the candidates with the following questions:...

Nearly 30 years ago, the world was forced to reconsider what it means to “look Jewish” when, through Operation Moses and, six years later, Operation Solomon, more than 22,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to their new home in Israel. The United Jewish Federation of...

NEW YORK (JTA)—The following is a review of the news highlights of the Jewish year 5772. September 2011 • An Egyptian mob breaks into the Israeli Embassy in Cairo and Israeli personnel are stuck inside for hours until Egyptian commandos arrive at the scene. Israeli...

The 10th graduation of adults from the Simon Family JCC’s Florence Melton Adult Mini-School took place on June 4. Thirteen adults completed the “core” program which involves two years of classes for 30 weeks each year. After these two years, students celebrate their...

Nearly 60 years after leaving Ohef Sholom Temple, Temple Sinai returned, merging the two congregations during a multi-faceted day of ceremony, service and celebration on Sunday, June 3. The morning began in Portsmouth at Temple Sinai. In noting that rabbinic...

Sitting in the sunlit great room of Cindy Kramer’s Virginia Beach home, members and guests at the Women’s Cabinet Installation Luncheon were served a healthy meal peppered with introductions, information and conversation. The annual meeting, held this year on May 10,...

More than 1,300 festival goers flooded into the cardo and all over the Simon Family JCC into the back fields, where they rode a camel, ate falafel, played gaga, wrote notes at the “Western Wall,” and so much more at the JCC’s biggest Israel Festival to date. It was a...

When it comes to the 3 R’s, everyone thinks of “Reading, Writing and Arithmetic.” But for Jewish Family Service of Tidewater, the 3 R’s will stand for Running, Resting, and Recycling as it kicks off its 8th Annual Week of Healthy Living. Betty Ann Levin, executive...

As southern Israel was barraged by rockets for a fourth straight day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was hitting back "strongly and decisively," and its Iron Dome anti-missile defense system was intercepting many of the rockets coming from the Gaza...