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White City Shabbat set the Guinness World Record for the Largest Shabbat Dinner ever at the Hangar 11 in the port of Tel Aviv when 2,226 attendees were officially inscribed in the Guinness World Record for the Largest Shabbat Dinner on Friday night June 13. Notable diners included Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv Rav Yisrael [...]

Rabbi Nachman Sudak, the chief emissary for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in the United Kingdom, has died. Sudak died Sunday, June 15 in London. He was 78. Directed personally by the Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to move to London in 1959, Sudak lived there for the rest of his life, according to Chabad.org, developing and [...]

Moise Safra, a billion aire banker and philanthropist, died at 79 in Brazil. Safra died Sunday, June 15 at the Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital in Sao Paulo two days after suffering a heart attack, according to Reuters. He reportedly had struggled with Parkinson’s disease for several years. Safra and his brothers, Joseph and Edmond, were [...]

Kings Point Delray Beach , Fla .— Jocelyn Rita Levy (formerly of Bayonne, N.J.) 90, passed away in her home Saturday, May 24. Born November 16, 1923, the daughter of Dr. George and Jeanette Leder, she is survived by her children Edythe Murray of Norwich, Conn.; Susan Tapper Segal (Nathan) of Virginia Beach, Va.; Alan [...]

Vienna, Va.—Joyce Levy passed away on Tuesday, June 17, 2014. She was the beloved wife of Jerry Levy; mother of Jonathan Levy (Sara) and Julie Levy Kayes (Sean); sister of Richard Lee Sapperstein (Lisa); grandmother of Dylan, Zoey and Bryce. Funeral services took place at Temple Rodef Shalom, 2100 Westmoreland St. Falls Church, Va. Interment [...]

Virginia Beach—David Furman, 95, died on Tuesday, June 10, 2014 in a local convalescent center. He was born in Portlock, Va., and as a youngster moved with his family to South Norfolk, both now Chesapeake. He was the son of the late Annie Steinberg Furman and Joseph Furman. David worked with his brother, Morris, in [...]

New York , N.Y—Stanley Darrow, a New York City dentist and dental professor, died on June 22, 2014 at the age of 87. A native of the Bronx, Dr. Darrow graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1944 after which he enlisted in the U.S. Army. After serving in the Philippines, he attended college at [...]

Nine year awards (from preschool, age two–5th grade)—Mushky Brashevitzky, Shayda Rahimzadeh, Blake Brown, Gabe Foleck, Leo Kamer and Danial Watts James London Memorial Athlete of the Year—Danial Watts Most Improved in General Studies—Shayda Rahimzadeh Abe and Anna Rudolph Award for Excellence in Mathematics—Blake Brown Shirley Helfant and Ruth Josephberg Award for Visual Arts—Lara Leiden Middot [...]

Sunday, July 13, 7:15 pm at the Naro Cinema The Simon Family JCC and the Virginia Festival of Jewish Film, presented by Alma* and Howard Laderberg, are co-sponsoring a one-time-only showing of one of the best films of the year. Ida is a total marvel: beautiful and provocative, just maybe a masterpiece of a movie, [...]

Zumba Very popular among adult members of the JCC, Zumba will be offered for kids over age four, with regular Wednesday afternoon and Saturday morning classes beginning Wednesday, July 2. Special family yoga class Friday, July 18, 11 am-noon Introduce children to the world of yoga. Les Mills body pump classes Begins in September, with [...]