Community News

Join The J’s My Jewish Kitchen and Congregation Beth Torah for “Etgar” Pesach: Cooking Challenge, an interactive “Chopped”-like cooking challenge, 6-7:30 p.m. on March 31 via Zoom.

Here at The Chronicle we are thrilled by the response to our Passover recipe contest. Below are the second round of submissions we received by the March 8 deadline. We published the initial submissions in the March 4 issue and you can view all of the submissions individually on our Passover Recipe Contest page. You can vote for your favorite(s) by filling out the voting form or by emailing editor, Mike Sherry by March 21. The form has links to all of the recipes to read again before voting. Look for a profile of our top vote-getter in the March 25 issue.

The new Blitt Art Suite is open, and The J is offering expanded art classes, including ceramics. The J’s recent expansion included the addition of 1,000 square feet for a new ceramics studio that has seven pottery wheels, two kilns and two wedge tables for the use of white and red clay. It features skylights to allow for natural light. The ceramics studio is connected to the existing painting studio.

Picture this: It is the night of the first Passover Seder. The table is set. The candles are burning brightly. Everything sparkles. The children and guests are seated around the table. A sweet voice of a child recites the Four Questions. Serenity and joy are palpable in the warmth of the Passover atmosphere.

The Heritage Center at The J will present “Humans of Tel Aviv” as a virtual program from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. on March 16. Photographer and speaker Erez Kaganovitz will share what he has learned after photographing 1,000 life stories in Tel Aviv and Israel.

Pouting pitifully, thinking of preparing another pandemic Passover at home? Feeling frustrated facing a fidgety, fussy family for your freedom feast? Seeking something to spiffy-up, surprise and specialize your seder?

The Sarah Peltzman Educational Series, Unit Three, begins April 8. Classes will be held 10 a.m.-11 a.m. via Zoom. The cost is $15 per unit for new students who are not already participating in Peltzman classes.

Who can forget the funny scenes between one of America’s funniest television couples?

Join educator Marlene Katz for an hour learning about the antics of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. March 25 through the Learn Laugh & Love program.

With thousands of individuals unemployed in the Kansas City area, Jewish Family Services (JFS) and Jewish Vocational Services (JVS) have enhanced Career Skills and Connections, a program offering executive coaching and employment assistance for individuals from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds with a variety of work histories and experiences.

“Many of us are able to be parents, because we can afford to be.”

Rabbi Idit Solomon, CEO of Hasidah, a Jewish fertility organization, told me this and it floored me. I had never thought of building a family in this way. She wasn’t talking about the cost of the cute onesie, or of the matching nursery set, or even the average cost to see your women’s health care provider.