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This February, Jewish Family Services is kicking off its annual Spread the Love Campaign.

Kehilath Israel Synagogue is privileged to name Bill Greenberg as its Minyannaire of the Year.

SevenDays, a Kansas City-based nonprofit organization that promotes kindness and understanding through education and dialogue, is now accepting entries for its annual SevenDays Make a Ripple, Change the World Scholarship. 

McDonald’s Happy Meal creator Bob Bernstein is featured in the fast food episode of the Disney+ series “The ‘80s: Top Ten.” 

Mitzvah Garden KC and the Kansas City Community Gardens will host an Interfaith community-wide educational workshop on the benefits of raised box gardening and the gardening technique of hugelkultur — creating a raised garden bed of rotting wood and plant debris.

Rabbi Neal Schuster, rabbi and senior Jewish educator of KU Hillel for 13 years, will leave KU Hillel after the end of the University of Kansas’s spring semester.

While the congregants of Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, watched and listened to the livestream of the Shabbat service during which an armed man held hostage four individuals, including Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, and the rest of the country and even the world watched and listened to the news, Jewish Federation was receiving its own information and taking action locally. 

(JNS) – “I’m grateful to be alive,” wrote Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker on Facebook shortly after he emerged unscathed from his Texas synagogue, where he was held hostage for nearly 11 hours, along with three congregants. “I am grateful that we made it out.”

Jewish Family Services is offering a free and easy opportunity to stay focused and help put things in perspective to meet the challenges of everyday life.

Rabbi Moshe Grussgott’s second book club will meet at K.I. on Sunday, Feb. 27, at 10 a.m. The club is open to everyone.