UJCVP Shabbat Message: Building the Future in the New Year

As we welcomed the first Shabbat of 2024, I want to start the new year by taking a quick moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for strengthening our community. This past year has been filled with a lot of pain and uncertainty, but I have found great inspiration and hope by the comm…

David Ellenson, a Newport News native and leading Rabbi, dies at 76

Rabbi David Ellenson, who served for 12 years as president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and mentored a generation of rabbis and scholars as a historian, adviser and confidant, died December 7 at his home in Manhattan.

A renowned scholar in his own right — whose int…

UJCVP Shabbat Message: One Family

On Tuesday, I stood shoulder-to-shoulder with 300,000 fellow Jews, allies, and supporters at the March for Israel in Washington, D.C., including many from our Virginia Peninsula community. We came together in record numbers – united, proud, and strong – to demand the freedom of all hosta…

UJCVP Shabbat Message: Our Shabbat Table

If you walked the streets of Tel Aviv this afternoon, you would come across a table set for 199, pristinely set for Shabbat yet searingly empty. The highchairs at a handful of seats, the children’s cups in other settings and the white roses alongside some of the plates make the symbolism …

Statements of Solidarity & Allyship following October 7 Terror Attack

 We're grateful for statements of support from our allies in the community. We're not alone — we're stronger together.

 

Our Virginia Congressional Delegation voted for the RESOLUTION Standing with Israel as it defends itself against Hamas.

 

 

Kaine Statement on Hamas’ Acts of…