Deborah Lipstadt provides free speech lessons to Rachel Weisz for Denial role
Ben Sales NEW YORK (JTA)—Before the most dramatic episode of her professional life became a movie, Deborah Lipstadt had some work to do. No, she didn’t have to make some last-minute changes to the...
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View Article7th Annual Veterans Day Service and Celebration honors service to America
Friday, Nov. 11, 9:30 am, Sandler Family Campus Tidewater Jewish Foundation’s 7th Annual Veterans Day Service and Celebration seeks to honor those who have served in America’s armed forces, as well as...
View ArticleTorah Study for Skeptics
Sundays, Oct. 9 and 23, Nov. 6 and 20, Dec. 4 and 18, 6 pm Rabbi Ellen Jaffe- Gill of Tidewater Chavurah facilitates reading and discussion of texts from Hebrew Scripture with an eye toward meaning...
View ArticleMetal comes to life in Virginia Beach with Israeli Aluminum Show
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 7:30 pm Sandler Center for the Performing Arts presents The Aluminum Show next month, a new and unique show that brings the material, music and artists together on stage in a...
View ArticleA complex critique: Inside the Middle East
Inside the Middle East Avi Melamed Skyhorse Publishing 2016 374 pages, $26.99 Dennis Ross was astonished to realize that senior White House, State, and Defense officials had little or no knowledge of...
View ArticleTracy W. Doughtie
Chesapeake —Tracy Wayne Doughtie, 48, passed away on Sept. 26, 2016. He is predeceased by his father, Waverly Ray Doughtie. Tracy was born in Ducan, Oklahoma. He was a roofer with J.D. Miles & Sons...
View ArticleLinda H. Glaser
Norfolk —Linda H. Glaser, 75, was received into heaven on Sunday, October 9, 2016. She was surrounded by the love of her family as she made her passage. She was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina and...
View ArticleGertrude Gussoff Stavin
Virg inia Beach —Gertrude Gussoff Stavin passed away peacefully at the age of 93 on October 5, 2016, three months after her beloved husband of 73 years, Irwin. She was the daughter of David and Minnie...
View ArticleSteven Arthur True
Virginia Beach —Steven Arthur True passed away on October 10, 2016 at the age of 47. He was a native of Virginia and graduated from South Lakes High School in Reston. Steven was a devoted father and...
View ArticleDimona nuclear reactor to be renamed in honor of Shimon Peres
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Dimona nuclear reactor in southern Israel will be renamed in honor of Shimon Peres. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the announcement that he intends to have the Nuclear...
View ArticleJack Greenberg, civil rights attorney who defended Martin Luther King Jr.
NEW YORK (JTA)—Jack Greenberg, a prominent lawyer in the U.S. civil rights movement who once defended the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died. Greenberg had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease,...
View ArticleA well-deserved honor for Amy Brooke
Friday, Dec. 9 and Saturday, Dec. 10 Leah Schwartz, BINA High School past president BINA High School is thrilled to have the opportunity to honor the commitment, hard work, and dedication of Amy...
View ArticleLech-Lecha (Genesis 12:1–17:27)
Noah was destined to be neither the father of the Jewish people nor the founder of our faith. Though the most righteous one in his corrupt generation, he failed to reach out and save human lives...
View ArticleMazel Tov to Renen and Amanda Katz
Birth Renen and Amanda Katz of Loxahatchee, Fla. on the birth of their daughter, Amelia Jolie Katz on May 9, 2016. Her paternal grandparents are Donald Katz of Stuart, Fla., formerly of Norfolk and...
View ArticleThe Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich
The Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich Robert K. Wittman and David Kinney Harper,513 pages, $35 The Devil’s Diary of interconnected significant dramas is an...
View ArticleDr. Reuben Koller
Virginia Beach —Dr. Reuben Koller, 72, died on Monday, October 17, 2016 in Virginia Beach. He is survived by his children Greta, Darvey, Aimee, Jeremy and their spouses; his nine grandchildren; his...
View ArticleRochelle Nichols
Chesapeake —Rochelle “Ro” Nichols, 70, passed away on Tuesday, October 25, 2016. She was born in Brooklyn, New York to the late Frederick and Irene Sherriff Goldstein. Rochelle was a food demonstrator...
View ArticleCharles G. Nusbaum
Virginia Beach —Charles G. Nusbaum, 90, passed away on Friday, October 28, 2016 in his home at Westminster-Canterbury. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia to Cilla Guggenheimer Nusbaum and Bertram Spagat...
View ArticleZelma Goodman Rivin
Portsmouth —Zelma Goodman Rivin died on October 29, 2016, 10 days before her 95th birthday. She left us while residing in her home in Portsmouth, just as she intended, during the same week of the year...
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