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Ready for a Jewish lawyer joke? You’ll have to read one somewhere else (Google the phrase and you’ll have your pick), because in this special Legal edition of the Jewish News we’re taking a more discerning look at legal professionals and the field of law. Judaism is a religion bound by laws (beginning with 10—commandments, [...]

At a luncheon in Virginia Beach last month, visiting Israeli Avital Sandler-Loeff described how difficult it can be to live with a physical disability in Israel. “Think about Jerusalem,” Sandler-Loeff says. “Now try to imagine yourself in a wheelchair going in the old city and in the villages and in the north end.” With its [...]

A tombstone engraver made Ed Koch nearly two decades younger after carving the wrong birth year into the New York City mayor’s granite slab. Tommy Flynn of Flynn Funeral & Cremation Memorial Centers Inc. transposed two numbers in Koch’s birth year, making him born in 1942 rather than 1924, The New York Times reported. Koch [...]

Evelyn Kozak, the world’s oldest Jewish person, died in New York at the age of 113. Kozak, who was also the world’s seventh oldest person, died last week, a day after having a heart attack. She would have been 114 in August. She was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York [...]

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Yoram Kaniuk, an acclaimed author and journalist who had the designation Jewish removed from his Israeli identification card, has died. Kaniuk died Saturday, June 8 after fighting cancer for many years. He was 83. Born and raised in Tel Aviv, Kaniuk wrote 17 novels, including Himmo, King of Jerusalem (1965); Adam Resurrected (1968); Rockinghorse [...]

Sarasota, Fla .—Jack Weintraub, 91, of died May 28, 2013. Born in Brooklyn, Jack kept moving south from New Jersey to Portsmouth, Va. to Columbia, S.C. and to Sarasota Fla. In Florida for 30+ years, he continued a career as a Jewish Federation volunteer, and as a founder and executive director of the Jewish Housing [...]

Virginia Beach —Stanley Weigen passed away on Monday, June 10, 2013 in Paris, France while on vacation with his beloved wife, Frances Birshtein Weigen. He was the adoring father and father-inlaw of Maureen Weigen-Liebovitz, Janet and Norman Shiner. He was the son of the late Sara and Joseph Weigenberg. He was the dear brother-in-law of [...]

The flags flutter again from the gravestones of Jewish veterans of Tidewater because a team of patriots and veterans met at local Jewish cemeteries to honor these heroes. “We should have the veterans of our community in our mind all year round,” says Jim Eilberg, a Navy veteran who revived the tradition of placing flags [...]

Sunday, August 11, 5 pm Calling all rising college freshmen, currently enrolled college students, recent graduates and Birthright alumni. Your peers who are planning an upcoming event want to see you in August! The Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater is hosting the student-planned, student-run event, formerly known as Sababa Sunday. [...]

Stacey Neuman and David Aikman on their wedding, which took place May 19, 2013 at the Cavalier Yacht and Golf Club. Stacey and David will reside in Charlottesville, Va. Stacey is the daughter of Terry and Bob Neuman of Maitland, Fla. David is the son of Marlene and Duane Aikman of Virginia Beach, Va.