UJCVP Shabbat Message: More than Just a Game

This week the UJCVP sent a delegation of teen athletes from Newport News, Williamsburg and York County to compete in the 2023 Maccabi Games in Fort Lauderdale. Three thousand teen athletes from around the globe came together for the world's largest Jewish youth sporting event that feature…

UJCVP Shabbat Message: Moments Like This

​​​​​​​This week a crisis was narrowly avoided at the Margolin Hebrew Academy in Memphis, Tennessee when an individual with a handgun attempted to enter the school and fired at the building. Thankfully, the protocols kept the offender out of the building and security cameras …

UJCVP Shabbat Message: Reaching Beyond the Divide

Amidst the troubling images of protest, disunity and turmoil coming from Israel this week as the Knesset voted in the first Judicial reform legislation, there was a brief, but quite literally touching, moment captured ​​​​​at Jerusalem's Yitzhak Navon Train Station. The clip qui…

Grants in Action I Reflections from a Transformational Israel Experience

Reflection from Pearl Kluger, who was awarded a grant from the UJCVP Endowment to participate in a gap year experience in Israel.  

Having finally returned home after completing my incredible gap year in Israel through Young Judaea Year Course, I am filled with a whirlwind of emotions. Th…

How a century-old cemetery in Hampton connects Jewish community to faith

At the Jewish Cemetery of the Virginia Peninsula, the past, present and future are all intertwined.

“We have to honor our responsibility to make a proper place for the burial of Jewish people, and their spouses, and their children,” said Buddy David, president of the foundation that ove…