SIGN UP FOR THE CHALLENGE BELOW! Challenge Rules: Registration for the challenge is required. Challenge starts Wednesday, January 13 and ends Sunday, February 28. Track your minutes daily on this form, or in your personal fitness app. When you have reached 2021 minutes (or 33.68 hours) of workouts, email your results to Tom Purcell. Activities include:…

Rosh Hashanah Edition Later on this year we will provide all our members with a brand new update about our closings regarding the upcoming holidays. Until then we wish all our Jewish and gentile members a, “L’shana tova umetukah!” See everyone next year!

By Tom Purcell  We just celebrated Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and with each new beginning we can cleanse ourselves with bad habits and replace them with good ones. How we take care ourselves should be a top priority in our life. There’s no magic pill or surgery that can truly make you healthy other than…

Yom Kippur Edition   Later on this year we will provide all our members with a brand new update about our closings regarding Passover. Until then we wish all those observing this holiday a very easy fast, and look forward to seeing you all October 1, 2017 at our normal operation hours!

Mal Vincent closes the 23rd Film Festival at the Roper “Avalon” is the name of the movie and it is a comedy. It is also the closing night show, and reception, for the 23rd annual Virginia Festival of Jewish Film, Sunday night (Jan. 24) at 5:30 p. m.  at Roper Performing Arts Center in downtown…

Daniel Hecht is autistic. You may see the 22-year-old washing, drying, and folding towels at the JCC, where he says he loves working. “Everyone smiles at me and says hello,” he explains. The JCC has been a part of Daniel’s life since he was two. Though he was not a typical toddler, the center welcomed…

Moving to a different community can be tough. Welcoming a new baby has its challenges. Finding the perfect childcare provider for first-time parents who just moved—now that’s a stressful endeavor. But that’s exactly where Jasmine Amitay and her husband Yaniv found themselves nearly six years ago. They moved to Virginia Beach and promptly welcomed their…

Nona Lipsey is a bit of a Mah Jong enthusiast. When she moved to the Virginia Beach area to live closer to family in 2010, she joined the Simon Family JCC after hearing about the regular Monday games. During a few Mah Jong games, Nona heard about water exercise programs offered during the week. Gradually,…

Military families experience a lot of moves, and a lot of goodbyes. The Trest family is no stranger to packing up and changing duty stations, but after becoming part of the Simon Family JCC’s close-knit community, they’re moving to a different duty station at the end of the summer. Rachel is a full-time military mother….