What’s Happening

Mike Goldsmith, Secure Community Network’s Regional Security Advisor for Tidewater, will facilitate various security-oriented training sessions next month. These programs are free and open to the community. Registration is required. For more information, go to...

Longing for a crispy and chewy New York bagel or a smokey and peppery pastrami piled high and kissed with the sharp bite of deli mustard? The Neighborhood Harvest has been pondering the same thoughts, memories, and cravings. That’s why The Neighborhood Harvest...

 Tuesday, August 1, 12 pm, Sandler Family Campus A lot of familiar names are in Ira Rosen’s engrossing book, Ticking Clock, Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes. Names such as Harry Reasoner and Ed Bradley, Leslie Stahl and Morley Safer are found throughout, but local TV...

Tuesdays, 10 am – 12 pm Know someone who knits or crochets? Or someone who wants to learn so they can help keep others warm? Is it you? Sherry Rabinowitz, a PhD whose expertise was discovering and treating child abuse victims, will instruct those who don’t already...

Tuesday, August 1, 12 pm, Sandler Family Campus Ira Rosen, the acclaimed 60 Minutes producer and author of Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes, will speak at the Simon Family JCC on August 1. The event was originally scheduled for May. Rosen is a renowned...

Thursday, June 1, 12:30 pm, Online, Free The Honorable Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia, will share takeaways from his March trip to Poland and Israel in a statewide online conversation. The bipartisan trip spearheaded by Attorney General Miyares, co-led...

Presented by United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Holocaust Commission, the Elie Wiesel Visual Arts competition provides middle and high school students with questions to learn about the Holocaust while applying the lessons to create artwork. The competition is...

Thursday, May 25, 8:30 am  Jewish War Veterans Flagpole, Sandler Family Campus The Board of Rabbis and Cantors of Hampton Roads and the Jewish War Veterans (Post 158) will host a community Memorial Day Weekend observance to start the weekend in appreciation of those...

Sunday, June 4, Ohef Sholom Temple  10:30 am: Buffet Breakfast, 11 am: Ceremony, $10 The Henry B. Kaufmann Award is presented by Ohef Sholom Temple’s Men’s Club to a congregant who has demonstrated extraordinary service to the Temple and the community in a volunteer...

Wednesday, May 17, 12 pm, Sandler Family Campus, $12 Ira Rosen, the acclaimed 60 Minutes producer and author of Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes, will be the featured speaker at a lunch-time event at the Simon Family JCC. Rosen is a renowned journalist,...

Tuesday, May 9, 12 pm, Zoom With nearly a century of her life behind her, Stella Levi never spoke in detail about her past. Then, one Saturday at her Greenwich Village apartment, she met Michael Frank. The upcoming online event with Frank, author of One Hundred...

Wednesday, January 25, 12 pm Sandler Family Campus $12 (lunch included) • $6 for 55+ Gaining weight as one ages is not inevitable. It’s avoidable and even reversible. In fact, it’s possible to help stop—and even reverse—age-related weight gain and muscle loss. Heidi...

Wednesday, February 15, 12 pm Virtual, Watch from Home, Free   Dr. Michael Roizen is back (online) by popular demand. This time, he is ready to provide concrete steps to take to prepare for the changes of tomorrow—to stay younger longer by extending those best...

Thursday, February 9 Reception: 6:30 pm Performance: 7 pm Sandler Family Campus, Free A story told by a single performer, Every Brilliant Thing is presented in collaboration with Jewish Family Service of Tidewater, YWCA of South Hampton Roads, Virginia Stage Company,...

Saturday, March 4, 8:30 pm Sandler Family Campus, Free Every intelligent young couple starts their marriage with the same dreams, goals, and ideals. They’re sure they will live in married bliss forever...until they aren’t. Until the bickering, fighting, and loneliness...

Sunday, February 12, 4 pm, Temple Israel Free, RSVP required Gil Hoffman was recently listed as one of "The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life, 2022" by The Algemeiner, a global news destination published online and in print. The former chief political...

The Virginia Festival of Jewish Film, presented by Alma and Howard Laderberg, is marking its 30th Anniversary in February. One of the longest-running Jewish film festivals in the nation, the festival entertains, educates, and engages the Tidewater community by...

Begins Wednesday, January 18, 6:45 pm, online Nearly two and a half million Jews emigrated from Eastern Europe to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. New to a foreign country and unlikely to speak English, these Jews tended to confine...

Sunday, January 8, 1– 4 pm, Simon Family JCC This afternoon of winter games, crafts, a bounce house, and more will be most enjoyed by children through 8th grade and is free to JCC members, Strelitz International Academy and Camp JCC families, YAD, and Tidewater...

Saturday, January 21, 6–10 pm, Simon Family JCC Need a date night? Kids Night Out might be the answer. Simon Family JCC patrons with family memberships can drop off their children and know that the kids will enjoy a night filled with games, crafts, snacks, and...

January 22–February 26 Uncover the magic of Jewish books through an immersive tour of its central titles and influential authors. Attend classes in person at the Chabad House on Sunday mornings, or at the Sandler Family Campus on Thursday evenings. in partnership with...

Tuesday, January 17, 12 pm, online, free In August 1942, Polish-Jewish doctor and educator Janusz Korczak walked with the children of the Warsaw Ghetto to the Umschlagplatz, the train platform for deportations to the camps. While members of the Polish Resistance...

Thursdays, 12 pm Sandler Family Campus and online 10-week course begins Thursday, January 19, 2023 More than 100 years ago, Solomon Schechter, a Jewish studies professor from Cambridge University in England, launched an expedition exploring the genizah (a storage...

Wednesday, February 8 Join the Jewish Community Relations Council and Jewish community members from across the commonwealth for Virginia Jewish Advocacy Day at Virginia’s capitol. Advocate on issues important to the Jewish community in meetings with members of the...

Thursday, January 5, 12 pm, online Earlier this month, Lahav Harkov joined the Jewish Community Relations Council for the monthly midday current affairs briefing. This time, the topic was an update on the coalition building taking place in the Knesset in Israel....

Tuesday, December 20, 6–9 pm Ohef Sholom Temple Enjoy drinks, dreidel tournaments, interfaith trivia, raffle baskets, live bands, and more! Ugly sweaters are encouraged for this evening of adult Hanukkah fun. Co-sponsored by United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s...

On display through December Workshop: Monday December 12, 12 pm Sandler Family Campus “What if we believed ‘In-the-beginning’ was the beginning—until one day we asked a different question, and the sacred words sat up and told a different story? What then? What would...

Jessica Nordell: Thursday, December 8, 7:30 pm, Sandler Family Campus   Several years ago, a Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities’ board member said that he hoped our organization would one day work ourselves out of business. The notion stuck with me—that...

Sunday, December 11 1–4 pm Simon Family JCC PJ Library in Tidewater will present Sunday Fun Day Festival of Lights, a special Hanukkah extravaganza, one week before the start of the holiday. The afternoon will include a Hanukkah Glow in the Dark party and obstacle...