What’s Happening

33rd Annual Strelitz International Golf Tournament, affectionately known as the Bob Josephberg Classic, slated for next month

Tuesday, September 14, 10:30 Registration; 12 pm Tee-off Bayville Golf Club in Virginia Beach

Carly Glickman

For the past 33 years, Strelitz International Academy’s annual golf tournament has been a highlight in the Tidewater community. The tournament sees more than 100 players coming out to support Tidewater’s only Jewish Community Day School and traditionally raises more than $128,000 in sponsorships to directly benefit the students and families at SIA.

This year’s Bob Josephberg Classic, which is co-chaired by Ilana and Nathan Benson, offers players something extra to celebrate. In July, Strelitz International Academy was authorized as Tidewater’s first International Baccalaureate® World School for the Primary Years Programme. This is the culmination of years of planning, development, and implementation that would not have been possible without the support from United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, Tidewater Jewish Foundation, the Simon Family Foundation, friends in the community, SIA’s board of trustees, and SIA staff. With SIA’s new IB® status, the school is positioned to be the top primary year’s institution for growing Tidewater’s future leaders. Many levels of sponsorship opportunities are available, starting at $400 and ranging up to $5,500. SIA’s 33rd Annual Golf Tournament welcomes all golfers and volunteers for a day of fun, golf, and an exciting awards reception with a delicious kosher buffet.

To register as a sponsor, player, or volunteer, contact Carly Glikman, director of development at Strelitz International Academy at CGlikman@StrelitzAcademy. org or 757-424-4327.

Sababa Social Club

Wednesday, August 25, 5:30–7:30 pm Sandler Family Campus outdoor pool

Jill Grossman

What’s Sababa?

Find out around the Simon Family JCC’s outdoor pool at the launch of Sababa Social Club. It’s a chance for adults (no kids) to be together (swimming optional, masks required inside the JCC) and have some bites (delicious kosher ones!), beverages (yes beer, yes wine, yes Sababa Sangria!), and music (singer/songwriter Lewis McGehee!).

So, whether it’s after work, after golf, or after a nap—bring friends, significant others or just your fabulous self to the Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus for the start of something great for Tidewater’s Jewish community, the Sababa Social Club. It’s free to all.

Now, is the answer clear about what Sababa is? Cool.

For more information and to register, go to JewishVA.org/Sababa8 or contact Jill Grossman, director, Arts + Ideas, at jgrossman@ujft.org or 757-965-6137.

Then, Now, & Looking Forward: Lorraine Fink Retrospective

On view in the Leon Family Gallery and throughout the Sandler Family Campus through September 30

Join the artist for a reception: Sunday, September 12, 1- 3 pm

Jill Grossman

“Fink does not observe nature and then paint it. Rather she is a channel through which nature itself emerges practically fully formed in its primal energy, beauty, and soul. Her drawing, mark-making, brushstrokes—all are deftly spontaneous. Fink has no intention of duplicating reality with them. Rather her marks frolic and dance from her hands with a life of their own. Of course, they suggest those things we know in our reality, but they become their own humans, animals, birds, shamans, ancestors, and family as she releases them into the world.” —Ken Daley, Old Dominion University, Professor of Art Emeritus

Local Artist and arts supporter Lorraine Fink will be celebrated in this first retrospective of her work spanning five decades. Drawing on her interest in myths and folk tales from different cultures, Fink’s work has been influenced by her travels with late husband, Dr. H. William Fink, to Africa, Nepal and India, New Guinea, Israel, Russia, Central America, the Caribbean islands, and the Far East. ”Working with mixed media, I enjoy drawing, painting, and sculpting, which show textures of abstract and gestural energy. Playful amorphic animal and bird images leap and dance, metaphors for the human condition. Discarded objects become totems and whimsical members of a tribe,” says Fink.

Inspired by the outpouring of interest in her recent auction of drawings, the Simon Family JCC invited Fink to exhibit this retrospective, the Leon Family Gallery’s most substantial presentation to date.

Fink began her studies with Charles Sibley and Ken Daley at Old Dominion University, graduating with a BFA in 1978 and an MFA in 1983. Fink and her art have been featured on WHRO’s PBS television feature Curate, and she has been recognized with numerous honors including the Virginia Watercolor Society’s Purchase Award at the College of William & Mary, The Miniatures Juror’s Choice Award at the Hermitage Museum, and inclusion in a two-year traveling Smithsonian exhibition from the Virginia Printmakers show awarded at the Virginia Museum. Fink was invited to feature her paintings as the opening exhibit of the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).

The exhibition will run through September 30, 2021 at the Leon Family Gallery and throughout the Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus of the Tidewater Jewish Community, 5000 Corporate Woods Drive in Virginia Beach.

Mooncycle Transformation to Beast.

To learn more or to RSVP for the reception, contact Jill Grossman, Arts + Ideas drector, at JGrossman@ujft.org, 757-965-6137, or visit www.JewishVA.org/ gallery.

WHAT’S HAPPENING

Virginia Arts Festival presents Violins of Hope

Wednesday, October 6, 7:30 pm, Norfolk Academy

Co-presented with the Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater

Virginia Arts Festival will present a concert showcasing instruments that echo with history and hope when violins recovered from the Holocaust are used in a performance that includes works by some Jewish composers who languished and died in World War II Nazi concentration camps.

“These violins are the voices of gifted musicians and some composers who were victims of the Holocaust,” says Robert W. Cross, Virginia Arts Festival Perry Artistic director. “They represent the incredible courage of a generation decimated by war and hate. It is an honor to hear them play.”

A stirring testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of music, the Violins of Hope comprise a collection of instruments that tell remarkable stories of the defiance, resilience, and legacy of Jewish musicians during the Holocaust.

Israeli violinmaker Amnon Weinstein has spent the last two decades locating and restoring violins that were played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust. He dedicates this important work to relatives he never knew. Weinstein’s grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins remained in Eastern Europe when his parents, Moshe and Golda, immigrated in 1938 to Palestine, where Moshe opened a violin shop. After the war, Moshe learned that his entire family—400 in all—had been murdered during the Holocaust.

One of the most respected violin makers in the world, Amnon Weinstein determined to reclaim his lost heritage. He started locating violins that were played by Jews in the camps and ghettos, painstakingly piecing them back together so they could be brought to life again on the concert stage. Although most of the musicians who originally played the instruments were silenced in the Holocaust, their voices and spirits live on through the violins that he has lovingly restored. Weinstein calls these instruments the Violins of Hope.

The Virginia Arts Festival concert featuring some of these violins is part of a regional tour—Violins of Hope Richmond—showcasing these instruments of inspiration. Richmond’s Virginia Holocaust Museum is hosting an exhibition of some of the violins through October 24. Companion exhibitions of the violins will be on display at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture and the Black History Museum & Culture Center of Virginia.

Information and tickets available at vafest. org. Tickets: $25; Students under 25, $10.

Youth Tee Ball at the Simon Family JCC

Mondays and Tuesdays August 23–October 12, 5:30 –6:30 pm

Ages 3-6, $75 for JCC members; $105 for non-members

Open to all children, ages 3–6, this Tee Ball league teaches the basic techniques and skills of the game including throwing, catching, hitting, base running, and teamwork. Participants practice on Mondays, with a game each Tuesday. A team jersey is included. No rain dates and no practice or game on September 6 and 7. A child of a team’s Head Coach may play for free.

To register, visit the Simon Family JCC in person, or call 757-321-2338.

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