Simon Family JCC’s 6th Annual President’s Golf Cup Tournament improves kids...
Thursday, June 9, 1 pm, Heron Ridge Golf Club One of the greatest professional golfers of all time, William Ben Hogan, said, “The most important shot in golf is the next one.” The Simon Family JCC...
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Matti Friedman Israel Today—Sifting through the media spin
Matti Friedman Wednesday, May 11, 7:30 pm, Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus Matti Friedman, former Jerusalem Bureau reporter and editor for the Associated Press will be the featured speaker in the...
View ArticleSplashes of color and hours of fun planned for opening day pool party
Sunday, May 22, 1–4 pm, Simon Family JCC, Free for everyone The calendar may say May, but the weather shouts, “summer.” Simon Family JCC members and guests are invited to cool off and get their feet...
View ArticleBarry S. Behrman
Virginia Beach —Barry S. Behrman, 70, of Virginia Beach, passed away April 23, 2016. Barry was born in Norfolk, the son of the late Aaron and Gertrude Behrman. Barry was the proud founder of Q-Master...
View ArticleIra Marshall Cantin
Norfolk —Ira Marshall Cantin, M.D., passed away at home on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Ira was born in Richmond, Va. on December 29, 1927. He is preceded in death by his mother Tess Kramer Cantin and...
View ArticleMiriam Schajer Drory
Virginia Beach —Miriam Schajer Drory, 76, died Wednesday, April 20, 2016. She was born in Poland and moved to Australia where she married and started her family. In 1970, the family moved to Israel and...
View ArticleMartin Gray, author of best-selling Holocaust memoir
Martin Gray, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor whose memoir about his experiences during World War II inspired a successful TV miniseries, has died at 93. Gray was found in the swimming pool of his...
View ArticleFrederick Mayer, German Jewturned U.S. spy against the Nazis
Frederick Mayer, a German Jew who fled Nazi Germany in 1938 and parachuted back in seven years later as an American spy, has died. Mayer died on Friday, April 15 in Charles Town, West Virginia, at the...
View ArticleOhio Jewish leader cited by John Kasich for Holocaust memorial role
Joyce Garver Keller, the longtime executive director of Ohio’s Jewish community relations council who helped establish a state Holocaust memorial, has died at 68. On Monday, May 2, less than two weeks...
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Preschool hoop house full of hope Enriching the lives of little seedlings
Caterpillar hoop house at Sandler Family Campus. A visit to the Strelitz Early Childhood Education Center’s garden reveals some changes. In fact, some rather sizable changes—an eight-foot tall...
View ArticleIsrael Fest to feature tapestries that weave a tale of Jewish Pilgrimage
Sunday, June 5, 11 am–4 pm During the Spanish Inquisition in the 16th century, the Monzon family from Monzon, Spain, was one of many Jewish families expelled from their homes. This displaced family...
View ArticleSimon Family JCC Israel Fest extravaganza promises fun for the entire...
Sunday, June 5, 11 am–4 pm, Sandler Family Campus Explore everything Israeli at the Simon Family JCC’s biggest party of the year, the sixth annual Israel Fest, honoring Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israel’s 68th...
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Now in it’s sixth year, the Simon Family JCC Presidents’ Cup Golf Tournament...
Thursday, June 9, 11:30 am registration, 1 pm shotgun start, Heron Ridge Golf Club, Virginia Beach Everyone’s favorite character—Norman Sher (known to most as Normie)— shares a few, colorful memories...
View ArticleRose Ann Leventhal Grossman
Coconut Grove , Fla .—Rose Ann Leventhal Grossman died peacefully in her home on May 4, 2016. She was 90 years old. A native of Norfolk, Mrs. Grossman was the daughter of Louis Leventhal and Agatha...
View ArticleEstelle Ruth Hochstadt
Virginia Beach —Estelle Ruth Hochstadt, 93, passed away peacefully on May 9, 2016. She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. to Lena and Meyer Tabatchnick. She was the third of four sisters. She married the love...
View ArticleErnest Michel, Auschwitz survivor and longtime Jewish leader
NEW YORK (JTA)—Ernest (Ernie) Michel, who after surviving Auschwitz and a forced death march went on to become a prominent American Jewish communal leader, has died at 92. Michel died at his home in...
View ArticleRabbi Morton Leifman, longtime dean of JTS cantors’ school
Rabbi Morton Leifman, who oversaw the training of Conservative movement cantors for decades, has died. Leifman, a former vice president of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and longtime dean...
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And the winner is… Brian Cohn, 6th grade student
Brian Cohn holds his winning poster. For the fourth consecutive year, Tidewater students had the opportunity to learn some “cool facts” about Israel and share what they learned by creating original...
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Lorraine Fink turns discarded JCC lights into sculpture
Saturday, June 4, Exhibit opens at Slover Library, Norfolk In 2014, As Lorraine Fink took down her art show at the Leon Family Gallery and loaded it into her car, she was drawn by “a silent vibrant cry...
View ArticleHealth Care in the Jewish community
Israeli-developed HyGIeaCare® Center now open in collaboration with Gastrointestinal & Liver Specialists of Tidewater A new HyGIeaCare Center, where patients experience simple and easy bowel prep...
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