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Great Jewish Books Summer Program opens to applicants Amherst, MA—High school students are invited to apply to the 2016 Great Jewish Books Summer Program, a weeklong residential program at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass. Due to the popularity of the program in past years, the Center will offer two sessions in 2016: July [...]

Samuel “Sandy” Berger, who served as President Bill Clinton’s national security adviser, has died. Berger, a prominent player at the 2000 Camp David summit, died early Wednesday, Dec. 2 of cancer. He was 70. Berger, who was Jewish, was the top foreign policy adviser for Clinton during the 1992 campaign, then served as deputy national [...]

LOS ANGELES (JTA)—Tibor Rubin, a Korean War hero who survived a Chinese prisoner of war camp and before that the Mauthausen concentration camp, has died. Rubin, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism, died Saturday, Dec. 5 in Garden Grove, Calif., of natural causes. He was 86. Born in Paszto, a Hungarian [...]

Norfolk —Hope W. Price, 94, died November 19, 2015. She was a native of Henderson, N. C. and was the daughter of the late Taylor and Grace Weaver Watkins. She was preceded in death by her loving husband James Guy Price, MD. and her siblings, T.J. Watkins, Jr., Vivian W. Keeton, and Jere E. Watkins. [...]

Virginia Beach —Nancy Ruth Mazur, 67, passed away Dec. 6, 2015. She was born to Howard and Gussie Handler Marks, and was raised in New Jersey where she met her husband Alan. Nancy loved playing Mahjong, reading books, doing needlework, and cooking. She adored spending time with her family, and those moments were always very [...]

Portsmouth —Louis Klavan, 89, passed away Thursday, December 3, 2015. He was born in Norfolk to the late David and Rose Klavan. He honorably served in the U.S. Army during WWII in the Philippines. He retired from the Norfolk Naval Shipyard after 38 years as a mechanical engineering technician and metallurgist, earning numerous awards and [...]

Ohef Sholom Temple for receiving the Elizabeth River Project’s recognition for the first time as a “River Star Business” at the Two-Star Achievement Level for 2015. This distinction is attained after a Restoration Advisory Committee reviews applications and decides whether a business has documented quantified achievements in both pollution prevention and wildlife habitat enhancement.

Feb.4–7, Thursday–Sunday, six locations Over four days in February, community members will have the opportunity to explore, question, learn and grow from a Jewish perspective when the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater and the Tidewater Synagogue Leadership Council present the Milton “Mickey” Kramer Scholar-in-Residence Fund’s 3rd Annual Tidewater Together. This year’s scholar-in-residence is Rabbi Eric [...]

Tuesday, Feb. 2, 7 am–4 pm Issue selection meeting: Thursday, Jan. 7, noon Insiders’ Briefing for attendees: Thursday, Jan. 28, 6:30 pm For years, members of Jewish communities from across the Commonwealth have gone to the State Capitol in Richmond to collaborate on Virginia Jewish Advocacy Day, also known as “Date with the State.” This [...]

Sunday, Jan. 31, 9 am–1 pm The young leaders of the Tidewater Jewish community are at it again. Demonstrating mettle and tenacity, more than a dozen 22- 45-year-olds have volunteered to be on a committee responsible for the planning and execution of Tidewater’s Jewish community’s largest fundraising day of the year, Super Sunday. Super Sunday [...]