Forever Helping Others

Guide To Jewish Living In Tidewater

Lone Soldier Support

Brings them a feeling of warmth and community through housing, Shabbat meals, flights home, a 24/7 call center, and more. DIGNITY—Provide financial relief to IDF soldiers whose families are in economic difficulty, gifting them with peace of mind so they can fully dedicate themselves to defending Israel.

Education

Gives at-risk teens a second chance through Project Overcome; provides soldiers without 12 years of education or their high school diploma opportunities through Formal Education; or scholarships for higher education through IMPACT!

While IDF soldiers are on the frontlines, FIDF strengthens their well-being by responding to their most urgent needs.

Hadassah

hadassah.org

Bill Goldback’s legacy lives on through the arts.

Bill, who died in 2007, left a donation in his will for the performing arts in Hampton Roads.

The William A. Goldback Fund continues to support arts groups and other causes in our community.

Hadassah Southern Seaboard Region President: Sharon Goretsky, 757-5359633 sgoretsky@hadassah.org

In New York in 1912, the first group of Hadassah was chartered after its founder, Henrietta Szold, returned from Jerusalem. The second chapter of Hadassah was chartered in Norfolk, Va. One hundred and eleven years later, Hadassah’s Norfolk-Virginia Beach chapter is re-energizing and excited to serve all of Tidewater.

Hadassah is the largest Jewish women’s organization in the United States. With more than 300,000 members, associates, and supporters across the country, Hadassah brings Jewish women together to affect change and advocate on critical issues such as medical care and research, women’s empowerment, domestic advocacy in the United States, and the security of Israel.

Through the Hadassah Medical Organization’s (HMO) two hospitals, the world-renowned trauma center, and the leading research facility in Jerusalem, Hadassah supports the delivery of exemplary patient care to more than one million people every year. HMO serves without regard to race, religion, or nationality and earned a Nobel Peace Prize Nomination in 2005 for building “bridges to peace” through equality in medical treatment.

Hampton Roads Board Of Rabbis And Cantors

President: Cantor David Proser, kbhcantor@gmail.com

The Board was originally organized as the Board of Rabbis. About 20 years ago, it expanded its membership to include cantors. The Board provides an opportunity for local Jewish clergy to meet on a regular basis and to address, discuss, and answer the challenges facing the Jewish community of Tidewater.

Hebrew Ladies Charity Society

The Hebrew Ladies Charity Society (HLCS) was established in 1902 by nine local Jewish Women who banded together to help address the unmet needs of the community. In 1925, the Ladies Hebrew Charity Society and the Council of Jewish Women merged to avoid duplicating efforts. In 1946, they established the Jewish Family Welfare Bureau, which was renamed and incorporated in 1948 as Jewish Family Service of Tidewater (JFS). The HLCS representatives continue to hold one vote on the JFS board of directors.

JFS honors and remembers the ladies who helped settle Tidewater and has a fund established to provide food and financial assistance to local Jewish people in need.

Contributions in honor of the Hebrew Ladies Charity Society can be made to jfshamptonroads.org.

Jewish Museum And Cultural Center

607 Effingham St. Portsmouth, VA 23704

Email: jmccportsmouth@gmail.com

757-391-9266, www.jewishmuseumportsmouth.org

Administrator: Barbara Rossen

The Jewish Museum and Cultural Center is housed in the beautifully restored Chevra T’helim Synagogue, the interior of which is a rare surviving example of Eastern European Jewish Orthodoxy. The Center offers lectures, exhibits, a summer music series, as well as school programs, adult programs, and tours.

Jewish War Veterans Of The United States Of America

Adam Goldberg, Post Commander

831-917-3996 jwv.post158.se.virginia@gmail.com

Follow at: facebook.com/JWVPost158VA/

Join at: jwv.org/membership/explore-membership/

The oldest active veterans organization in America, chartered in 1896 by an act of Congress, the Jewish War Veterans brings together citizens of the U.S.A. with joint ties of a common Jewish heritage and the experience of serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. It is the organization’s goal to apply experiences in the military as civilians to “be of greater service to our country, our community, and above all to our fellow veterans.”

JWV Post 158 works to instill the tenets of the National HQ’s mission within the local community by imparting true allegiance to the U.S.A. and love of country and flag, combating bigotry and darkness wherever originating and defending whomever it targets, preserving the spirit of comradeship to fellow veterans and their families, honoring the memory and shielding from neglect the graves of the community’s heroic dead,