Jewish Community News “A Lifetime of Caring” June 2016/5776 News of the Jewish VA Peninsula Community New Light For Old Windows Page 4 Join Us at the Annual Meeting & Cookout Sunday, June 5, 2016 at the UJC 401 City Center Blvd. Newport News 23606 5:30 - 6:45 PM Cookout on Pool Deck & Patio 7 PM Annual Meeting Executive Director’s Report - Steven Wendell President’s Remarks - Neal Rosenbaum Installation of Incoming President - Jody Sarfan Charles Olshansky Humanitarian Award Presented to Sharron Kitchen Miller & the Late Senator John Miller Theodore H. & Esther Beskin Scholarship Award Presentation Greenspon Young Leadership Award Presentation Special Presentation to Nellie Quesnel Celebrating Her Retirement Dessert Reception RSVP: 930-1422 or [email protected]Summer Day Camp Chaverim Camp Brochure available online now! Summer 2016 Session Dates: 1: June 27nd – July 8th ( Mazel Tots start June 14th) 2: July 11th – July 22nd 3: July 25th – Aug. 5th 4: Aug. 8th – Aug. 19th Continued on page 13 Summer Camp Retro Information Page 4 UpComing Summer Events Back Page
Transcript
Jewish Community News“A Lifetime of Caring” June 2016/5776News of the Jewish VA Peninsula Community
New LightFor Old Windows Page 4
Join Us at the Annual Meeting & CookoutSunday, June 5, 2016
at the UJC 401 City Center Blvd. Newport News 23606
Jewish Family Service of Hampton RoadsLibby Batten, MSW, JFS Social Worker
Thank you so much to everyone who has donated food to the Jewish Family Service food pantry. This food program supports Peninsula Jewish families who come to Jewish Family Service for financial assistance. They all struggle with monthly expenses and grocery items are always a welcome help to them.
At this time, the most needed items include tuna and peanut butter as well as gift cards for gasoline and grocery gift cards to help with expenses for perishable frozen or refrigerated items. We greatly appreciate your support of our agency and the services that we provide to those in need. All donations of food or gift cards are tax deductible and may be dropped off at the JFS office or at the main desk at the UJCVP. If it is more convenient, please send gift cards via mail to Jewish Family Service 401 City Center Blvd. Newport News, Virginia 23606
Do you have the soaps, shampoos, and other toiletries that are in your hotel rooms when you travel? People in homeless shelters, centers for abused women and other havens for the less fortunate can always use these items.
Please bring them by the UJC when you can, and they will be distributed to persons in need. If you have any questions, please get in touch with Stan Glasofer at 930 -4606 or [email protected].
THE IDA FENIGSOHN SICK LOAN SHELF
As a service project to help those in need, the National Council of Jewish Women, Hampton Roads Section (NCJW) lends durable medical equipment, such as wheel chairs, crutches, canes and walkers, to anyone in the community free of charge.
A request from a health care provider is necessary, and items may be borrowed for up to 6 months, but can, of course, be kept longer if necessary. Items are available for pick up at the Newport News Public Health Center, 416 J. Clyde Morris Blvd. For more information, please contact Michele Linn at 868-7421
UJC Seniors
Come to the UJC on Tuesdays.
June 7th, 14th, 20th, & 28th Bingo and Lunch
If you are over 60 & looking for a place to have lunch & meet other seniors,
Over the 74 year history of our Federation/JCC, now known as the United Jewish Community of the Virginia Peninsula, there have been 29 different leaders who have taken on the role of President of the Board of Directors. At our upcoming UJCVP Annual Meeting Sunday evening, June 5th, we will thank #29, Neal Rosenbaum, and elect #30, Jody Sarfan.
Our Jewish community has been blessed to have volunteers who have been willing to step forward and take on the mantle of leadership for the UJC. The position of President of the UJC, an organization with a very broad and all-encompassing mandate as stated in the opening prargraph of its bylaws (the UJC “...is dedicated to the well-being of the Jewish people...”) can be a daunting responsibility. Over the past two years as President of the UJC, Neal Rosenbaum has demonstrated the outstanding and courageous leadership needed to help move the concept of a Jewish community campus forward to reality thereby setting the future direction of our community. And at the same time, under Neal’s administration, the UJC has sought ways to strengthen our relationships and collaborations with all our community agencies whether they are included on the campus or not, as well as reaching out to unaffiliated families, in fulfilling our Federation mission to be the umbrella Jewish organization for the entire Peninsula.
The UJC, like all organizations particularly in small communities, relies heavily on its volunteer leadership. Recently, I was asked by someone to define “a leader” in reference to community work. And rather than give an off-the-cuff answer, I decided the question was so important it deserved a thoughtful response. So I did some research and here’s a summary of what I found:
Peter Drucker, who Business Week called “the man who invented management,” provides this answer to the question, “The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.” In thinking about that answer, all of us probably know folks who are put in charge of other people, who, if they want to keep their jobs, must follow these folks and their directives. Are these people in charge automatically to be defined as “leaders”?
Warren Bennis, whose book, Leadership, was recently cited by the Financial Times as one of the top 50 books of all time, says, “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” I know that many of us every spring have a vision for a garden, whether of vegetables or flowers, and with lots of work and nurturing, our vision hopefully becomes a beautiful reality. Based on this, are we “leaders”? Maybe, or maybe we’re just good gardeners.
John Maxwell, an internationally recognized expert on leadership who has sold over 10 million books is quoted, “Leadership is influence – nothing more, nothing less.” So a man walks into a convenience store with a gun and demands that the clerk empty the cash register into a bag he is holding. Does he have influence? Yes! Is he “a leader?” Is the policeman who stops you for going 55 miles per hour down Jefferson Avenue and gives you a ticket, “a leader?” He certainly has influence.
So what is leadership? What do we expect from people elected to positions of leadership?
I found this definition from an unnamed source that I believe best matches the expectations of leadership for our organizations:“Leadership is a process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of others, towards the achievement of a goal.”
Leadership is not part of someone’s body chemistry. Leadership cannot be anointed, appointed, or even elected. Just having people who must follow your orders doesn’t make you a leader.
Leadership is a process. It includes setting and achieving goals that require decisiveness. But it also includes the involvement and empowerment of others, which requires thoughtfulness and patience. Leadership is not authority or power; it is influence. And leadership is not a title but titles and positions do provide opportunities for leadership.
Continued on page 4
4 Jewish Community News | June 2016
We owe a sincere debt of gratitude to Neal Rosenbaum and the entire Board of Directors of the UJC for their demonstration of leadership over these past two years. Their accomplishments have allowed us, as a community, to move forward towards a new and brighter future.
The incoming Board of the UJC, under the presidency of Jody Sarfan, is tasked with providing the leadership to build upon the positive momentum of the past
several years, and even the past 74 years, and guide the next steps necessary to enhance our thriving Jewish community that encompasses not only the agencies that will reside on the campus at 401 City Center Boulevard, but throughout our entire community on the Peninsula. I am confident that we have chosen the right leadership for the task, and I look forward to the UJC continuing its success in building and enhancing our Jewish community.
Executive Director’s Message continued.
To step inside Elaine Abrams’s home is to understand her affinity for glass. From the collection of vivid, lustrous hunks the artist combed from a beach in Morano, Italy, to the tabletop candy dish she wove from fettuccini-like strips of warm glass, Elaine lives in the luminescence of her medium.
That’s why Arnie, Elaine’s husband, was quick to alert her when a group of Rodef Sholom Temple members found about 30 stained glass windows in a poorly-lit boiler room during preparations for the congregation’s upcoming move.
Quick research revealed that the windows came from the synagogue’s original Newport News location on 32nd Street. When the congregation moved to Whealton Road, the windows were also moved--and forgotten. Covered in dust and grime, the windows seemed to take on a patina of the darkness in which they’d languished, but Elaine immediately saw the potential. “They aren’t beautiful by today’s standards, but they were then, 100 years ago,” Elaine says. “I knew we had to save them.”
Potential is one of the things Elaine loves most about glass. “What you can do with it,” she says. “It can take such different forms.” Elaine, who honed her craft in a small home studio and at Cristallo Artisans in Newport News, specializes in fusing glass: bonding separate pieces
together in a kiln. But the antique pieces weren’t composed of the right properties to make fusing possible, so Elaine turned to other techniques.
Extensive cleaning revealed sections of rich greens, blues and gold. Not all of the pieces are usable—many sections are blackened with paint from faded depictions of scenes from the Torah, but Elaine knew she wanted to do something with the colorful, translucent pieces of glass to forward the history of the windows. Inspired by the Jewish tradition of “generation to generation,” Elaine began separating usable pieces from the leading and cutting the glass into triangles that she fashioned into Stars of David, embedding them into decorative dishes and platters she designed. Encased in transparent glass, the stars –and, by extension, the old windows— radiate with a new vitality.
Elaine envisions the platters being used at dinners and functions in the new temple, and hopes to find an outlet to sell some
pieces to support the building fund.
The windows will be at the new temple, but “in a new form,” Elaine says. “We change, but a piece of history will come with us.”
From Generation to Generation: Elaine Abrams Gives Old Temple Windows New Light
By Cynthia Davis
June 2016 | Jewish Community News 5
President’sMessage Neal Rosenbaum
King Solomon is credited with building the First Temple in Jerusalem about 3,000 years ago. Four hundred years later in 586 B.C.E. the Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians. Around this same time, a Chinese Philosopher, Lao Tzu, is credited with writing the time -honored phrase, “a journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step.”
What do these events and phrases have to do with our local Jewish Community?
Jewish life was centered around the First and Second Holy Temples in Jerusalem for about 1,000 years. With the destruction of the Second Temple in the year 70,the Galut, or Jewish exile and dispersion, began. Our ancestors established lives in many places around the world but many communities were cut short by subsequent inquisitions and pogroms (think Spain - 1492 and think Russia, Anatevka – 1905). The 1,000 mile journey that started with a single step in Jerusalem in the year 70 has taken us to the UJCVP in 2016; and our journey is still in progress.
My administration began two years ago with the goal of instilling a Jewish spark into our community, into each and every one of our lives. How did we do and who was responsible? The State of Virginia aided the early days of my administration by completing a new road, City Center Blvd., that gave grand visibility to a JCC campus, that had been one of the best-kept secrets. Thousands of cars now pass directly in front of our campus and our new digital sign brings our programs to every passerby’s attention. Immediately the phones began ringing in our JCC Preschool, and Carmella hired additional staff and added infant care. Mayer and Dorene Sarfan funded a new building, attached to the Sarfan-Nachman Preschool Building their family built years before, in expectation of our first 100-child school. Mayer and Dorene are my idea of what angels look like.
Rodef Sholom’s building on Whealton Road is under contract and scheduled to close in a few weeks. The groundbreaking for Rodef Sholom’s new synagogue will occur on our campus at the end of the summer. With three congregations on campus, the sparks will really start flying with three Shabbat services, weddings, baby namings and bar & bat Mitzvahs. The added energy will be infectious. I have lobbied for the campus concept for over 25 years and am proud that this concept finally came to fruition.
Steve Wendell,UJCVP Executive Director, came to Virginia as our professional spark plug just as my presidency began. What started out as a blind date
now feels like a perfect marriage between professional staff and our lay leadership and community volunteers. Steve leads a professional staff that is second to none; Carmella, Jen, Judie, Linda, Nellie and Sarah. They pave the road that our journey travels.
My thanks to Steve for leading our community trip to Israel last October. There are very few Jewish experiences that are more meaningful and inspiring than a trip to Israel. I will devote my two-year term on the Executive Board as Past President to encourage all community members to tour Israel, our spiritual homeland.
The UJCVP’s thousand-mile journey requires a continuity of leadership, and we are blessed with talent. Jody Sarfan assumes the Presidency this week and has already demonstrated MVP leadership. If my administration created small sparks, Jody’s accomplishments will put the Macy’s 4th of July fireworks to shame. How does she do everything with such perfection.....in the last year alone she co-chaired the most successful JCC Auction in history and captained a J-Cup Challenge Team.
Jody’s President-elect is Jenny David. Jenny is another giant in our community: the winning captain of this year’s J-Cup Challenge team, member of the National Young Leadership Cabinet, skilled barrister and super- mom. Her administration has the potential to be the best ever.
Jody and Jenny have similar connections to the 120+ -year history of this community although neither was born on the Peninsula. Rev. Avraham Mirmelstein was the first spiritual leader of the Peninsula Jewish community. From Rev. Mirmelstein descended the Mirmelstein-Blechman-Sarfan-David Families. Call it destiny, call it fate, but Jody Sarfan and Jenny David exemplify Jewish continuity and generational commitment. My thanks and admiration go out to Ed and Josh for having the good sense to marry and bring these two most outstanding, dedicated and capable leaders to this community.
With a ladder of leadership in place, my administration takes its place in the history of the UJCVP, secure in the knowledge that Jody and Jenny are prepared to accept the torch of leadership. The Summer Olympics in Rio will begin in a few months with the lighting of the Olympic cauldron, a light that athletes brought from Greece, the home of the ancient Olympics. Yes, the spark that will kindle the Olympic Flame in Rio originated in Olympia, Greece in 776 B.C.E., around the
Continued on page 6
6 Jewish Community News | June 2016
FundDonationsUnrestricted Endowment Fund In memory of Abe Firestone
Ettalea Kanter
Marc Minkoff Sports Scholarship Fund In memory of Rose Glasser
Karen Minkoff
Leonard & Sylvia Water Library Fund
In memory of Abe FirestoneSandy & Howard Waters
In memory of Rose GlasserSandy & Howard Waters
Leroy M. Spigel Early Childhood Education FundIn memory of Abe Firestone
Joy & Larry SpigelIn memory of Rabbi Arthur Steinberg
Joy & Larry Spigel
same time as the First Temple was destroyed and Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu, provided a road map for life. With a dispersion from Jerusalem that led our ancestors to America, a spark from G-d, and far-sighted philosophers who show us that life is taken one step at a time, our community will continue to survive and thrive.
Serving as President of the UJCVP has been the very best job of my volunteer life. Thank you for giving me this opportunity and honor.
PS. My personal, sincere thanks to the many community members over the past two years who took the time to call and email your kind comments and words of approval for my monthly messages.
President’s Message continued.
Every summer, the UJC hires two Israeli counselors (shlichim) to be camp counselors at Camp Chaverim from the Jewish Agency for Israel. Please volunteer to be a host family this year for one week!
Hosting an Israeli counselor is a rich and rewarding experience to both the host family and the counselor and can create friendships that last a lifetime..
Host Families Needed for Israeli Summer Camp Counselors
July 29th – August 5thAugust 5th -August 12thAugust 12th – August 21st
Would you like to host the male or female shlichim or both?
Treat the camp counselor as part of your family: provide a place to sleep, meals, a ride to the UJC in
Newport News by 9 a.m. and then pick up when camp ends at 4 p.m.
Monday- Friday.
Please don’t say no to hosting based on driving times - we can
work with you!
June 2016 | Jewish Community News 7
Sarah Barnett, Campaign Director
It’s that time of year again: time to think about printing our Campaign Honor Roll. Don’t forget to make your 2016 Campaign Commitment so we can recognize your generosity. Please let us know if you would like your commitment to be anonymous. If your gift has been anonymous in the past it will continue to be so: however, a gentle reminder to [email protected] never hurts!
BE A PART OF ITI come to work every day wondering what Jewish connections I might make or if I will even make a tangible connection in any given week. One reason over 500 donors commit to the Annual Campaign is precisely because we want to make and strengthen Jewish connections: here, in Israel and all over the globe. Sometimes we see these connections and sometimes we merely trust that they are happening. Sometimes I see them but can’t tell you because of privacy matters. Rest assured that children will be sent to critical Jewish camping experiences both here and abroad because of what the local and global Jewish Federation system does. We know who our own children are who will benefit from these experiences, but we will not see the connections we are making overseas, or ever meet the children who will have pivotal camping experience at Camp Szarvas in Hungary this summer. We will see our Israeli schlichim at Camp Chaverim who will once again be here this summer to make invaluable connections with all of us. But if anyone wanted to see connections in action, the Jewish Food Festival on May 15th was a fantastic room full of all types of connections: from the new community members who have never been here before, to the natives who hadn’t set foot on our campus since the ‘80’s, to the youth group kids reaching out, to the Jewish Trader Joe’s presenters who hadn’t found their way to the UJCVP yet. My own personal corner of connections was made through my role as UJCVP Food Festival volunteer coordinator (synagogue booths collected their own volunteers). Scores of people responded to my pleas to come help, and the day couldn’t have happened without them, from set up, to deli sales, to ticket taking, and parking lot attending, everyone played a valuable part in the day. These volunteers responded to my request to connect and I in turn connected with some folks I hadn’t seen for a while, or am not used to seeing at the UJC, or hadn’t even met before. They represented all facets of our community: synagogue affiliated, unaffiliated, young, old, Jewish, not Jewish, preschool parents, and high school students seeking to fulfill community service hours. Things got very hectic in the middle of the day as the general community responded to our Food Festival in droves. Yet amidst all of the chaotic fun, I made my own new connection with Brynon, an early childhood parent I had not yet met. When our school was much smaller it was much easier to know everyone. It’s a challenge to grow as we have and maintain personal contacts, which is why I was so happy to meet Brynon and have a few minutes to get to know a little bit about his family’s experience at the Sarfan Early Childhood Center with one child and number two almost here! Brynon and his wife decided to connect with us by choosing our Early Childhood Center and strengthened this connection by participating and volunteering at such an important community building day. I, in turn, was able to connect with Brynon as a volunteer, share time at the ticket selling table (a busy table!), enjoy his company, learn a little about his wonderful young family, and remind myself why being A Part of This Community is so important to me. We provide a crucial service to Brynon’s family, and they in turn volunteer and strengthen the communal connections that are so vital to us. I do not know how long he and his family will be a part of the UJCVP but I do believe that all of us benefit from the two way community building.
To Be A Part of the Annual Campaign that is so important to supporting everything that goes on at our Campus and more, is to help build connections. I hope all of us will choose to Be A Part It. We have a Campaign season that is coming to an official close but there is truly no time when the opportunity for generosity closes. Call, mail, or visit us online to make your pledge.
8 Jewish Community News | June 2016
600 Jamestown Road Williamsburg, VA 23185 757.220.1205 www.tbewilliamsburg.org
High School Senior Shabbat Please join us on Friday night, June 10, when our High School Seniors will be honored at Shabbat services, with a blessing and other treats.
Shavuot TBE's celebration of Shavuot will start at 7pm on Saturday night, June 11. The celebration of our ancestors receiving the Torah at Mt. Sinai will include the unrolling of the entire scroll and then a tour of the Torah, a text study session, and a special Oneg (dairy is the traditional food of Shavuot). We ask that everyone coming please bring a dairy snack to share - traditional Shavuot foods include cheesecake, blintzes, and ice cream.
Confirmation Temple Beth El is proud to announce that our third Confirmation service will take place on Friday night, June 17, starting at 7:30 pm. Tenth graders Jackie Lerman, Ally Motter, and Ross Wunibald will lead the service together, and each will share special thoughts marking the conclusion of their formal synagogue religious school years. Please join us for this very special service.
Pirke Avoteinu "Pirke Avoteinu" - 'The Wisdom of Our Elders' - is our series featuring our community's eld-ers and sages speaking on selected Friday nights. Please join us on Friday night, June 24, when Chellie Booth will be our next speaker.
WE BELIEVE THAT WHILE IN REHABILITATION THERAPY,you should enjoy all of the comforts of home while receiving the highest quality care.
n All private rooms on our skilled & rehabilitation unitsn The highest quality rehabilitation care provided by our professional staff of licensed physical, occupational and speech therapistsn New and modern rehabilitation gymnasiums with the latest equipment n Locally owned and operated by your friends and neighbors
Contact us about
any of our Peninsula facilities:
James River Convalescent & Rehabilitation Center / NEWPORT NEWS / 757.595.2273
The Newport / NEWPORT NEWS / 757.595.3733
Coliseum Convalescent & Rehabilitation Center / HAMPTON / 757.827.8953
Northampton Convalescent & Rehabilitation Center / HAMPTON / 757.826.4922
York Convalescent & Rehabilitation Center / YORKTOWN / 757.898.1491vahs.com
Highly Accredited and Rated ExcellentPerformancein
June 2016 | Jewish Community News 9
Choose LifeBy: Rabbi Gerson Litt
Most rabbis have the luxury of building relationships with their congregants and having those relationships grow and change over the course of decades. They get to see their congregants’ life cycle events, be with them during their times of joy and grieve with them during times of sorrow. The college campus, however, is not a normal community. Students, by definition, are generally not around for decades; at least their parents hope that they are not. Most students are around for about 4 years, and then they move on to their next adventure, readying themselves to take on new challenges and new opportunities. It is the campus rabbi’s job to help give them some of the tools necessary so they will be prepared for life when they depart the campus.
This week was graduation at many colleges and universities across the country including our local Christopher Newport University and The College of William and Mary. At both of these schools hundreds of students graduated and moved on to the next stage of their young lives. Many of the Jewish graduates were very involved in Hillel on campus, and while it was wonderful to see them move on it is hard to imagine campus life without them. All of our Jewish students are very committed, very intelligent and very motivated in everything they do. They set a very high standard for themselves and are not satisfied until they surpass their goals. Graduation is a very happy time for the graduates and their families, but it
can also be a scary time. What will they do next? What city will they end up in? What job or internship will they get? What new relationships are about to begin for them? All of
these questions and more are stressing in the minds of a young 21-22 year old just beginning their life journey – out of school for the first time since they were 5.
What do we wish for these young Jewish men and women? I was asked to speak at this year’s Baccalaureate ceremony at The College of William and Mary. In that speech I quoted a verse from the Torah, “I have placed before you life and death, blessing and curse. You shall choose life, so that you will live, you and your offspring.” (Deuteronomy 30:19) I told the graduates that just because they were leaving their college experience did not mean that anything had ended, but rather this time should be seen as a
beginning. It is now that life actually begins. It is now that they have to start using the information they learned at home and in school to, “choose life.” As Jews we should be making choices through the lenses of the Torah, through the lenses of our ethics and morals. As Jews we need to always act in a holy way, not just in a popular way. As Jews, we recognize that success is not defined by what we have, but rather by what we do. It is my hope and prayer that we can all be inspired by the graduating class of 2016. Let us always, “choose life,” by doing what is right, not necessarily just what is convenient.
Temple Sinai 11620 Warwick Blvd., Newport News VA 23601757-596-8352
Services with Rabbi Severine Sokol will be held on Friday evening June 3, 10, 17 and 24 at 7:30 p.m.
June 10 and 24-Shabbat Sheli (My Sabbath): Parents can enjoy the Shabbat service while children take part in special activities including arts and crafts, Jewish children’s prayers and stories. This program is free for any members and guests attending Shabbat service.
Do you have a big pile of plastic bags in your house that you don’t know what to do with? Bring it to Temple Sinai, and we will turn them in for recycling. Keep plastic bags out of the environment and help us earn a bench for our Biblical Garden. We will take grocery bags, bread bags, dry cleaning bags, etc. Plastic must be clean and dry. Contact Christina Verderosa at [email protected] if you have questions.
We have been working hard to rehabilitate our Biblical Garden, and it is open for tours, both for groups and individuals. You are invited to visit the garden anytime for meditation or to take a self-guided tour.. If your school or club or any other group is interested in a group tour, please contact the Temple at 596-8352.
You can now follow us on Twitter, templesinai_nn@templesinai_nn .
10 Jewish Community News | June 2016
Every culture has its water ritual. Mikveh is ours. By entering water in a ritualized way, we are embraced by this primal element and given a moment to experience the holiness of our own bodies. Ritual immersion is a powerful way of feeling connected to the earth, to Jewish tradition, and to God.
The UJCVP Community Mikveh welcomes Jewish men, women, and children. Here you will find ways that you as an individual, a family or a community can learn about and experience this unique part of Judaism.
A MIKVEH UPON HEALING: A painful diagnosis or an ongoing illness can leave you feeling like your body doesn’t belong to you anymore. Immersion in the mikveh can be a way for you to connect with your body again and to renew your hope and your resolve.
Please support a Mikveh for ALL at the UJCVP
To find out how you can support a UJCVP Mikveh please contact our committee at [email protected].
A Moment of Mikveh
June 2016 | Jewish Community News 11
CONGREGATION EMET V’OR (CEVO) www.emetvor.org 757 952 3737 Shabbat*, 7:30PM, at the UJCC, 401 City Center Blvd. Newport News All are welcome. See www.emetvor.org for up to date information.
Confirmation Class Gabby, Ashlee, Brooke on the steps of the Capitol with Rabbi Scott Gurdin
Our Special Shabbat Service Honoring our Graduating Seniors took place. Pictured and Eliana Goldstein and Abbi Gurdin - not pictured Haley Turczynski
We Cordially Invite You To Worship With Us And to Celebrate Our Confirmation Class on The 11th Day of June, 2016
7:00 PM ServiceShare in our Celebration When We Honor and Celebrate Our
Students Commitment to Judaism. Confirmation Class of 2016:Gabby Gurdin
Brooke LoughmanAshlee Turczynski
Those who wish to make a contribution to honor individual confirmands or graduates are asked to make their contributions to the CEVO Education
Fund or the CEVO Building Fund.
2016th of JuneTuesday14
RSVP NOW For Two Unique Celebrations! Tuesday, June 14, 2016 * 8 Sivan 5776
Farewell to Whealton Road, Our Religious Home for Nearly 60 Years • Receppon – 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. - Schmooze and Reminisce; Complimentary light refreshments
• Deconsecrapon - 5:00 p.m. - Ceremony for Removal of Torahs and Sounding of the Shofarot
• We drive with Torahs to the site of our new home…• Torah Procession and Dedicapon – 6:30 p.m. approximately
• Installapon of Torahs in the Aron Kodesh (ark) At the UJC: 401 City Center Boulevard, Newport News•Complimentary dessert refreshments
Please e-mail reservapons along with handicap parking needs to
For more informapon,Please call the office at 757-826-5894
Shabbat Services
Join Us for a Special Shabbat Celebration Friday, June 3rd 7PM, honoring our Religious School Teachers. Enhanced Oneg will follow services.
June 10th, Member led services with Cantorial Soloist Dr. Jonathan Rathsam.
Saturday, June 11th, 2016 (5 Sivan 5776) at 7:00PM: The Confirmation Class of 5776/2016 Cordially Invites You to Share in our Celebration as We confirm our Jewish Faith On Shavuot,
On May 15, we hosted the second Jewish Food Festival! People loved dining on the stuffed cabbage and chopped liver, the knishes and kugel, the charoset and challah, the falafel and the NY deli corned beef and pastrami sandwiches on rye!
There was a rock wall and laser tag for the teens, bounce house, slide and pony rides for the kids, and a petting zoo and henna hand art for everyone. The Sarfan Center Preschoolers sang some songs about food: “I can put a chicken in a pot,” “apples and honey and latkes--eat them up yum!” The Krav Maga Israeli combat demonstration was enjoyed twice during the day, and the cooking demonstration by Trader Joes of schnitzel and apple cake was great! We couldn’t have done this without the Lipman grant and the synagogue volunteers and preschool parent volunteers and the planning committee these last few months.
Thank you to ALL the volunteers that made this day possible including Charlene Wendell, Kayren Segall, Sarah Barnett, Nellie Quesnell, Angela Morris, and all the wonderful superstars of the day!
Camp Chaverim 2016 Go to ww.ujcvp.org for more info.
New This Year: A Summer to Remember. Camp Chaverim Goes Retro. Old Becomes New Again
Check out these THROWBACK photos of JCC Campers
from the Peninsula Historical Jewish Society
Introducing Throw Back Thursdays – Dress in your favorite Retro Decade, Retro Camp Fun Including – Talent Shows, Dance Parties, Rubiks Cubes,
Hula Hoops, Twister & More!
Supervised swim lessons, sports, art, music, and Jewish-themed programming as well as other camp activities continue to be a part of our CAMP CHAVERIM experience.
14 Jewish Community News | June 2016
June 2016 | Jewish Community News 15
Focus on what’s truly important to you. When your bank is dedicated to your financial well-being, you can spend more time on the things that matter most. Stop in, call 800.SUNTRUST or visit suntrust.com.
