Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport, who earned doctorate 80 years after Nazis’ denial
Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport, a German neonatologist who passed her doctoral defense exam nearly eight decades after she was denied the opportunity by the Nazis, has died at 104. She reportedly died...
View ArticleHistorian Elliott Horowitz, expert on Jewish violence
Elliott Horowitz, the author of Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence—considered the most wide-ranging book on Jewish violence—has died. Horowitz, who taught early modern Jewish...
View ArticleWhy Israelis are happy about Trump’s missile strike—and why they should be wary
WASHINGTON ( JTA)—Israel’s government and pundits are unabashedly pleased by the missile strike ordered by President Donald Trump early Friday, April 7 on the Syrian airfield from where a deadly...
View ArticleShemini
At this sacred season of re-consecration to recollection, we are poised between Yom Hashoah’s monumental burden of sorrow and Yom Ha’ Atzmaout’s transforming joy. We pause at this great twilight...
View Article2017 Israel Fest brings Israeli Culture to Tidewater
Sunday, April 30 11 am–4 pm Simon Family JCC The Simon Family Jewish Community Center’s largest celebration, Israel Fest, honors Israel’s 69th Independence Day. This annual festival offers the chance...
View ArticleGet hearts pumping at the 13th Annual Run, Roll or Stroll
Sunday, May 7 24th Street Park at the Virginia Beach Boardwalk With options of the 8K run, 5K run or walk, and 1-mile run/walk, Jewish Family Service’s 13th Annual Run, Roll or Stroll is open to both...
View ArticleGet a running start on the race!
Thursday, April 20, 6–7 pm Sandler Family Campus So you’re planning to run the JFS Run, Roll or Stroll 8K, 5K, or 1 Miler. Now what? Maybe this is your first race or your 10th. Either way, it helps to...
View ArticleAUGUSTA S. GOODMAN
Virginia Beach —Augusta Straus Goodman, born in Richmond, Virginia on May 10, 1917, passed away peacefully early Friday, March 31 with loved ones on either side, just six weeks before her 100th...
View ArticleLARRY B. KURZER
Norfolk —Larry (nee Lawrence) Bennett Kurzer passed away in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on March 10, 2017. The 63-year-old Norfolk native was the devoted son of Lillian Traub Kozak, the late Phillip Kurzer...
View ArticleMORRIS SILVERSTEIN
Virg inia Beach —Morris Silverstein 94, passed away on March 31, 2017. His funeral took place at Woodlawn Funeral Home, with Cantor Elihu Flax officiating.
View ArticleRussian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, whose ‘Babi Yar’ exposed anti-Semitism
Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, best known for his poem commemorating the slaughter of Jews by the Nazis at the Ukrainian ravine known as Babi Yar, has died at 84. Yevtushenko died Saturday, April 1...
View ArticleDon Rickles, insult comedian and actor, is dead at 90
NEW YORK (JTA)—Don Rickles, the bullet-headed comedian and actor whose pioneering brand of insult comedy earned him the nickname “Mr. Warmth,” has died at 90. Rickles died Thursday, April 6 at his home...
View ArticleLynne Seagle to speak at Temple Israel’s Annual Disability Awareness Shabbat
Saturday, May 20, 9:30 am Temple Israel’s Annual Disability Awareness Shabbat will feature Lynne Seagle, executive director of the Hope House Foundation, as the guest speaker. Seagle began her career...
View ArticleNew Israel Fund luncheon
Saturday, May 6, 1 pm A conversation and luncheon with the New Israel Fund will take place at the home of Susan Feit and Eitan Stern. The New Israel Fund, Israel’s leading progressive organization, has...
View ArticleTemple Emanuel celebrates its 6th Annual Pink Tea
Sunday, May 7, 2-4 pm The keynote speaker for this annual event to benefit the Beach Health Clinic to support under-served women with free cancer screenings and mammograms is Marni Siegel. For...
View ArticleVivid docudrama, In Our Hands, retells the modern battle that returned...
Film marks 50th Anniversary of Israel’s Six-Day War CBN and Fathom Events present theatrical screening, Tuesday, May 23 On the 50th Anniversary of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War comes the gripping new...
View ArticleAn ardent peace activist’s’ latest novel
Judas Amos Oz Translated by Nicholas de Lange Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 305 pages, $25 Amos Oz, Israel’s premier author, is the very embodiment of Eretz Yisrael Hayafa, that beautifully inspiring...
View ArticleJOSEPH MILTON COLLECTOR
Norfolk —A guardian angel must have accompanied Joe Collector during his numerous bombing missions over Nazi Germany, while stationed in England during World War ll. A belly gunner, his B-17 Fly...
View ArticleNANCY LEITMAN FORMAN
Norfolk —Nancy Leitman Forman, 83 of Norfolk, died peacefully April 19, 2017 in Virginia Beach. Mrs. Forman was born in Norfolk and graduated from Maury High School. She was the daughter of the late...
View ArticleMARTIN E. SILFEN
VIRGINIA BEACH—Martin E. Silfen, an entertainment lawyer and Professor of Law, died unexpectedly on April 21, 2017 at the age of 81. Martin is survived by his loving wife, Dory S. Silfen; his children,...
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