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Preparing for retirement: Investing in your personal future
The question looms for most everyone in the workforce: When will I know I’m financially prepared to retire? Jeffrey S. Chernitzer, CPA/PFS (Personal Financial Specialist), a wealth advisor with...
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Dear Readers, Last month I listened to an Apple News In Conversation podcast featuring an interview with Steve Lopez, author of Independence Day: What I Learned About Retirement From Some Who’ve Done...
View ArticleAssociation of Holocaust Organizations’ winter conference offers insights and...
One of the first items of business when someone is new to a role is to reach out to colleagues in the field to better understand how things work and learn best practices. I was fortunate to have the...
View ArticleJScreen’s fourth annual Jewish Genetic Screening Awareness Week
February 5–11 Atlanta, Ga.—A national non-profit public health initiative dedicated to preventing genetic diseases, JScreen’s fourth annual Jewish Genetic Screening Awareness Week is taking place...
View ArticleAlleging exclusion, Jewish faculty boycott James Madison University’s...
(JTA)—An event that took place at James Madison University on Thursday, Jan. 26 to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day was scheduled to feature lectures about the legacies of Auschwitz and the...
View Article30th Annual Virginia Festival of Jewish Film: February 23–March 1, 2023
30th Annual Virginia Festival of Jewish Film February 23–March 1, 2023 The Virginia Festival of Jewish Film, presented by Alma & Howard Laderberg, marks its 30th Anniversary with another exciting...
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Joan and Eric Joffe: 50 Years
Eric and Joan Joffe (center seated) surrounded by their family. Jewish News: When and where did you meet? Joan and Eric Joffe: We met on the beach in Clifton, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa in...
View ArticleBrith Sholom elects new officers, back in full-swing
More than 100 Brith Sholom members gathered at the Simon Family JCC on Sunday, Feb. 5, to learn the results of the 2022–2024 election. The newly elected officers are President, Dave Lesser; Vice...
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Winter activities with the Tidewater ShinShinim
Aya Sever and Alma Ben Chorin explore with their host family, the Brashevitzkys. Tidewater’s ShinShinim, Aya Sever and Alma Ben Chorin, have been busy this winter spreading Israeli culture and...
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Sandy Goldberg: Smiling, staying fit, and selling at 80
Sandy Goldberg during his Cox years, at 65 years old. Next month, Sandy Goldberg, account executive at Jewish News, turns 80. If he hadn’t shared the news, no one would know. He’s always...
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Caught on camera: Dani Weinstein reading Jewish News
Caught on Camera: Dani Weinstein says she wants to read Jewish News to see who she knows in each issue.
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Mazel Tov, Minette and Charles Cooper: 65 years
Minette and Charles Cooper at their wedding on June 22, 1958. Jewish News: When and where did you meet? Minette and Charles Cooper: In New York on a blind date through Marjorie Quarte, a senior in...
View ArticleDear Readers: Mazel Tov!
Dear Readers, Longevity unwittingly turned into the theme for this issue’s Mazel Tov section. Doing so makes perfect sense, and frankly, I wonder why we’ve never done it before. After all, when...
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Holocaust Commission educates and remembers with the publication of To Life:...
The cover of To Life: The Past is Present. International Holocaust Remembrance Day was observed this year by United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Holocaust Commission with the publication of To...
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Virginia Jewish Advocacy Day 2023: The day in Richmond is over, but action is...
Almost 50 early morning risers boarded a bus to Richmond for Virginia’s annual Jewish Advocacy Day on Wednesday, Feb. 8. Organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of the United Jewish...
View ArticleYour Voice Matters. URGE Virginia’s Delegates and Senators to SUPPORT...
Your Voice Matters. URGE Virginia’s Delegates and Senators to SUPPORT defining antisemitism and adding ethnicity to hate crimes protections. Dear Readers, On Sunday, Feb. 19, communities in Norfolk...
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Shinshinim experience Jewish Advocacy Day as Israelis
Carin Simon, Alma Ben Chorin, and Rabbi Ari Oli. We joined the Tidewater delegation for Jewish Advocacy Day in Richmond on Wednesday, Feb. 8. In the morning, we all met to ride the bus to Richmond at...
View ArticleTJF reflects on the past year and the future
It’s time to gather family and friends for Pesach and join in a moment of reflection…to take stock of values and hold fast to what’s most important in the coming days, weeks, and months. At Tidewater...
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Aviva Pembroke: Project and campaign update
Shovel ceremony participants: Lawrence Steingold, Jay Kossman, Larry Siegel, David Abraham, Mayor Bobby Dyer, Fred Napolitano, Vincent Olivieri, Michael Olivieri, and Ramsay Smith. Anyone who has...
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Not in God’s name
Craig Schranz The recent terrorist murder in Israel of two Jewish boys from Har Bracha in the Arab village of Huwara fills the Jewish world with sadness. Yet, it is the extrajudicial response by...
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