Clik here to view.
Leia Morrissey receives Stein Family Scholarship from TJF
The annual Stein Family College Scholarship of the Tidewater Jewish Foundation is awarded this year to Leia Morrissey, a soon-to-be graduate of Granby High School in Norfolk. Morrissey is the 15th...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stay Alive
Karina Filonenko evacuated from Ukraine to Poland with her two children just after the start of the war. A challenge for each person who lived in Ukraine after February 24, is to ‘stay alive.’ Could...
View ArticleNumber of antisemitic incidents surged in 2021, according to latest ADL tally
(JTA)—The number of antisemitic incidents recorded by the Anti-Defamation League in the United States in 2021 reached an all-time high, according to a new report by the group. The 2,717 incidents...
View ArticleNational Council of Jewish Women creates outlet for Jews to donate to...
(JTA)—In the 1920s, the National Council of Jewish Women helped establish the first 10 birth control clinics in the United States, which later became Planned Parenthood clinics. Now, with the right to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yom Hashoah Commemoration returns to the community
This year’s Yom Hashoah Commemoration, honoring the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, as well as liberators and righteous gentiles, was the first in-person gathering for the purpose since 2019....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Donors and philanthropic accomplishments celebrated at 2022 Simon Family...
Tidewater Jewish Foundation celebrated donors, community milestones, and philanthropic accomplishments at the 2022 Simon Family Legacy Celebration on Sunday, May 17 at the Sandler Family Campus. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UJFT Society of Professionals host offshore wind panel discussion
Panel moderator Joel Rubin may have summed it up best, when he said, “The wind is definitely blowing in the right direction…” for the region’s new offshore wind farm, whose turbines will soon be...
View ArticleJewish News editors make certain the paper evolves
In the paper’s 75-year history, surprisingly few have served as editor. In fact, many of the first editions list no editor at all, but rather the executive of the Norfolk Jewish Community Council (in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
75 years of Jewish News
Dear Readers, My first connections with Jewish News took place in the mid-1970s when, as an active teen in Tidewater’s Jewish community, my name and photo would sporadically appear on its pages. As I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Survivors Room honors area survivors
An active Holocaust Commission has been part of United Jewish Federation of Tidewater for more than 30 years. Among its numerous programs and projects, the Commission established a Speakers’ Bureau...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rabbi Sender Haber to leave B’nai Israel
Rabbi Sender Haber. Many communities have a rabbi. In the times of the Talmud, that term was deemed somewhat narrow for the many responsibilities devolved on the community leader. Another term was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Israel’s 74th celebration is a day to remember in Tidewater
Thousands of people visited the Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus of the Tidewater Jewish Community for a celebration of Yom Ha’Atzmaut on Sunday, May 1. The Israel Independence Day celebration was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Insightful reflections by Pittsburgh writers
Bound In The Bond Of Life (Pittsburgh Writers Reflect on the Tree of Life Tragedy) Edited by Beth Kissileff and Eric Lidji University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020 242 pages Rabbi Zoberman The utterly...
View ArticleJunior’s, NYC’s iconic Jewish cheesecake emporium, buys back guns to protect...
(New York Jewish Week)—When Alan Rosen, the third-generation owner of Junior’s Restaurant, read the headlines back in April about a 12-year-old Brooklyn boy who was shot and killed while eating in the...
View ArticleI left Israel to give my kids the American dream. Is this it?
On the day when the shooting happens, I finally unlock what some say is the most vital part of the American dream. My husband and I have a house in the suburbs now, big trees towering above —no picket...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mikro Kodesh Cemetery gets spruced up and hosts Genziah
The heat of the day didn’t stop Jewish Tidewater’s volunteers from coming out on the morning of Sunday, May 22 to Mikro Kodesh Cemetery in Chesapeake. That morning, United Jewish Federation of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jewish community’s Memorial Day program honors and remembers
On the sunny morning of Friday, May 27, a group of 50 community members gathered to commemorate the upcoming Memorial Day prior to the long weekend’s start. Hosted by the local Navy Chaplains, along...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Kids’ reflect on their dads
While every day is a great day to honor, appreciate, and love our dads (and the dads in our lives: grandfathers, sons, uncles, friends, and neighbors), this Father’s Day there’s even more reason to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Strelitz International Academy Class of 2022 Graduates
SIA graduates will attend the following middle school programs this fall: Cape Henry Collegiate, Norfolk Collegiate School, Norfolk Academy, Old Donation School, and Princess Anne Middle. SIA is an...
View Article