UJCVP Shabbat Message: The Amen Effect

This past spring our Sarfan Early Childhood Center planted new garden beds and the children have taken care of them with incredible enthusiasm.  All summer, they have worked hard to tend to the school's garden - watering the plants, weeding the beds, checking on their growth, and eagerly aw…

Temple Sinai Hosts Concert with Robbie Schaefer

On November 10th at 2pm, Temple Sinai in Newport News will host Robbie Schaefer, a musician, songwriter, and playwright devoted to service through the arts.

Robbie Schaefer’s concert weaves original songs together with musical midrash, a good dose of humor, and the occasional Paul Simon p…

LA-Based Klezmer Band Brings a Musical Feast to Newport News

Acclaimed klezmer-rock band Mostly Kosher has been described as delivering a musical feast that explodes into a global food-fight of jazz, Latin, rock, and folk.  The Ferguson Center at Christopher Newport University will welcome their radically reconstructed Judaic and American cultural mu…

New Teen Philanthropy Program

This year, the UJCVP has launched a year-long program for 8th-12th graders from across the Peninsula to develop strong leadership skills, learn the ins and outs of philanthropy through a Jewish lens, and allocate grants to effect real change in the causes they care about most.

The group wil…

Camp Chaverim Takes Fun Seriously

This summer, Camp Chaverim opened its doors to 132 enthusiastic campers. Little did they know, they were in for a SERIOUS treat! Each week, campers were presented with challenges, new skills to learn, and a lot about which to talk. Campers kicked off the summer with the knowledge that they w…