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Chevra Cinema Series Presents Walk on Water (2004)

Jewish Museum and Cultural Center 607 Effingham Street, Portsmouth, VA

Saturdays at Seven Film series presents Walk on Water from 2004. Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Hinmmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive.  Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his adult grandchildren.  Suggested donation: $5

$5.00

Chevra Cinema Series Presents The Fablemans (2022)

Jewish Museum and Cultural Center 607 Effingham Street, Portsmouth, VA

Saturdays at Seven Film Series. Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth. Part memoir, part ode to the power of the movies, The […]

$5.00

Daffodil Blooming Day

Jewish Museum and Cultural Center 607 Effingham Street, Portsmouth, VA

The Daffodil Project aspires to build a worldwide Living Holocaust Memorial by planting 1.5 million Daffodils in memory of the children who perished in the Holocaust and in support for […]

Lecture Series – The Material Jewish Presence in American Presidential Campaigning

Jewish Museum and Cultural Center 607 Effingham Street, Portsmouth, VA

Arthur Z. Steinberg Lecture Series presents: Dr. Eric Mazur “Upon Your Heart and Upon Your Head...” The Material Jewish Presence in American Presidential Campaigning Eric Michael Mazur (Ph.D., is the Gloria & David Furman Professor of Judaic Studies, professor of religious studies, and the Religion, Law, & Politics Fellow of the Robert Nusbaum Center at […]

$15.00

Lecture Series – Abraham Mordecai – The “Dark-Eyed Jew” of Alabama

Jewish Museum and Cultural Center 607 Effingham Street, Portsmouth, VA

Arthur Z. Steinberg Lecture Series presents: Dr. Amy K. Milligan Abraham Mordecai: "The Dark-Eyed Jew" of Alabama Dr. Amy K. Milligan is the Batten Endowed AssociateProfessor of Jewish Studies and Women’s and Gender Studiesand the director of the Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding at Old Dominion University. She is an ethnographer and folklorist […]

$15.00

Lecture Series – Moses and the Silver Screen

Jewish Museum and Cultural Center 607 Effingham Street, Portsmouth, VA

Arthur Z. Steinberg Lecture Series presents: Rabbi Michael Panitz Moses and the Silver Screen Dr. Michael Panitz has been the Rabbi at Temple Israel in Norfolk since 1992. Trained at […]

$15.00

Zelma Riven Summer Music Series – Soloman Eichner

Jewish Museum and Cultural Center 607 Effingham Street, Portsmouth, VA

The Zelma G. Riven Wonderful Wednesdays Summer Music Series 2024 Consistently in demand on the concert stage  Polish-American Concert Pianist Solomon Eichner has garnered international acclaim with performances in England, Italy, Germany, Poland, Austria and throughout the U.S.  Originally from Baltimore, Solomon graduated from the Manhattan School of Music and Peabody Conservatory. When not concertizing, […]

$25.00

The Zelma Riven Summer Music Series – Stephanie Nakasian Quartet

Jewish Museum and Cultural Center 607 Effingham Street, Portsmouth, VA

The Zelma G. Riven Wonderful Wednesdays Summer Music Series 2024 She is an exciting, well-seasoned vocalist master of innovative jazz improvisation, completely authentic with a fresh and vibrant sound all […]

$25.00

Zelma Riven Summer Music Series – Terra Voce with Maria Yefimova

Jewish Museum and Cultural Center 607 Effingham Street, Portsmouth, VA

The Zelma G. Riven Wonderful Wednesdays Summer Music Series 2024 Cellist Andrew Gabbert and flutist Elizabeth Brightbill of Terra Voce, along with internationally acclaimed pianist Maria Yefimova, thrill audiences with […]

$25.00
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Bagels and Freylox Klezmer Band Live

Jewish Museum and Cultural Center 607 Effingham Street, Portsmouth, VA

The Zelma G. Riven Wonderful Wednesdays Summer Music Series 2024 Klezmer is a mixture of wedding and party music of 19th century Eastern Europe with strains of Yiddish theater and […]

$25.00

Rumage Sale at the Jewish Museum and Cultural Center

Jewish Museum and Cultural Center 607 Effingham Street, Portsmouth, VA

A wide assortment of books, art, household items, craft supplies . . . all proceeds support the Museum. We'll have a food truck and musical entertainment.

Lafayette – Moses Myers Remembers Lafayette – Lecture

Jewish Museum and Cultural Center 607 Effingham Street, Portsmouth, VA

Portrayed by Greg Eatroff, Moses Myers remembers Lafayette as a General, as the Nation's Guest, and as a friend to the Jewish community. Light refreshments to follow. No Admission~Free Will Offerings Accepted. For more information visit: www.jewishmuseumportsmouth.org