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(JTA)—Looking through the barbed wire of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 14-year-old Nanette Konig could barely recognize her friend and classmate from Amsterdam, Anne Frank. Both girls had been caught by the Nazis in the Dutch capital and were sent to starve to death in a place Konig describes today as “hell on Earth.” Both were [...]

Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, a newspaper publisher and civil rights activist in Tennessee, has died at 96. Holmberg, a member of the family that controls The New York Times, challenged racial barriers, political skulduggery and environmental adversaries as publisher of The Chattanooga Times for nearly three decades, the newspaper reported. She died in Chattanooga. Growing up [...]

VIRGINIA BEACH—Martin E. Silfen, an entertainment lawyer and Professor of Law, died unexpectedly on April 21, 2017 at the age of 81. Martin is survived by his loving wife, Dory S. Silfen; his children, Jane, Lisa and Larry; six grandchildren, Jennifer, Bradley, Danielle, Jeremy, Andrew, and Benjamin; stepchildren, Erik and Heidi; step-grandchildren; Sam, Jack and [...]

Norfolk —Nancy Leitman Forman, 83 of Norfolk, died peacefully April 19, 2017 in Virginia Beach. Mrs. Forman was born in Norfolk and graduated from Maury High School. She was the daughter of the late Jacob Leitman and Florence Sachs Leitman. Mrs. Forman retired from the City of Norfolk with 30 plus years of service. She [...]

Norfolk —A guardian angel must have accompanied Joe Collector during his numerous bombing missions over Nazi Germany, while stationed in England during World War ll. A belly gunner, his B-17 Fly Fortress was shot down twice over the English Channel requiring him to parachute to safety. During his active duty in the Army Air Force, [...]

Judas Amos Oz Translated by Nicholas de Lange Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 305 pages, $25 Amos Oz, Israel’s premier author, is the very embodiment of Eretz Yisrael Hayafa, that beautifully inspiring Israel—particularly in its early pioneering phase—a reborn nation increasingly tested in a challenging and chilling environment from without and within, while accomplishing so much [...]

Film marks 50th Anniversary of Israel’s Six-Day War CBN and Fathom Events present theatrical screening, Tuesday, May 23 On the 50th Anniversary of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War comes the gripping new docudrama In Our Hands: The  Battle for Jerusalem. This CBN Documentaries film brings to life the battle of paratroopers’ hard-won victory at Ammunition Hill [...]

Sunday, May 7, 2-4 pm The keynote speaker for this annual event to benefit the Beach Health Clinic to support under-served women with free cancer screenings and mammograms is Marni Siegel. For information, call Paula Krukin Levy, event chair at 757-467-6677; Devorah Elstein, co-chair, at 757-619-6236, or the temple office, 757-428-2591. Minimum donation is $10. [...]

Saturday, May 6, 1 pm A conversation and luncheon with the New Israel Fund will take place at the home of Susan Feit and Eitan Stern. The New Israel Fund, Israel’s leading progressive organization, has been working to advance equality, pluralism, and democracy for almost 40 years. The event will take place at 413 Raleigh [...]

Saturday, May 20, 9:30 am Temple Israel’s Annual Disability Awareness Shabbat will feature Lynne Seagle, executive director of the Hope House Foundation, as the guest speaker. Seagle began her career at Hope House Foundation in 1978 as director of residential services. She has served as executive director for more than three decades. Under her leadership, [...]