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Jewish Family Service received this thank you note from an 11-year-old girl after Hanukkah last year: Dear JFS Helpers: Thank you for including me in the Chanukah gift drive. I live with my grandma and she and I have to watch how we spend money. My grandma surprised me with many, many gift cards (from [...]

As the end of 2021 approaches, there’s a greater sense of normality: people are returning to society and the workplace. Yet, millions of people across the globe are still being impacted by COVID-19. Still, there is a silver lining: according to Giving USA 2021, a record $471.44 billion in charitable giving was reached in 2020 [...]

The Serpent Papers by Jeff Schnader, an area author and professor of medicine, is set on Columbia University’s campus amidst protests against the Vietnam War. This is the first book written about Columbia’s 1972 demonstrations. For the Vietnam War generation, the war is still the defining event of their lives and rivets their interest. The [...]

  Tidewater BBYO invites all area Jewish teens to get involved. BBYO provides teens in eighth through 12th grades the opportunity to make friends, gain leadership experience, and have fun being Jewish. All BBYO programming is peer led: the teens plan and create all their own programming and activities—with adult supervision. In addition to local [...]

Your Journey Beyond Breast Cancer: Tools for the Road Louise B. Lubin, PhD Every woman remembers the moment she heard, “You have breast cancer.” These words begin a long winding journey with potential roadblocks and detours. Wherever one may be on their cancer journey, it is vital to remember that each person is more than [...]

Monday, November 8, 12 pm, Online When collective memory and trauma becomes overwhelming, what does one do? What happens when someone becomes too immersed in the history of the Holocaust, or any dark part of history? This is the primary question tackled in Yishai Sarid’s novel, The Memory Monster. Sarid will join the community online [...]

Sunday, November 14, 2 pm Sandler Family Campus and online Susan G. Groner—podcaster, author, and founder of The Parenting Mentor—will be at the Simon Family JCC for an interactive parenting workshop. Groner will share wisdom from her most recent book and coach parents through some of the everyday parenting decisions that inevitably arise in all family [...]

Sunday, November 21, 2 pm, online Israeli native Meir Shalev, who has written multiple best sellers, translated into more than 20 languages, will discuss his newest book, My Wild Garden: Notes from a Writer’s Eden. A series of essays, Shalev explores his garden, curiosity about land, and the joy life can bring. This book is [...]

Performances highlight Holocaust Reflections events November 4–7, Ferguson Center for the Arts, Free For the first time on an opera stage, OperaCNU will debut The Trial of God at Christopher Newport University’s Ferguson Center for the Arts next month. Commissioned by CNU, the opera is based on the 1979 play by the late Elie Wiesel [...]

Tribes, Tribesmen, For the Young at Heart. Silkscreens, collages, photographs, sculptures, and more than 100 ink and watercolor drawings. Dancers, musicians, masked forms, and women morphing into birds. Now in her 10th decade, Lorraine Fink creates works that bear witness to a life rich in experiences of discovery, joy, celebration, and at times memories of [...]