ROCKING FOR CANCER RESEARCH — For the fifth time, AEPi at the University of Kansas held a rock-a-thon to raise funds for awareness for a philanthropy. For 48 hours last week, an AEPi brother rocked in a chair on Wescoe Beach.
This year the brothers rocked in honor of one of their fraternity brothers, a Jewish man from the Kansas City area, who was recently diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system. So far the AEPi brothers have raised close to $7,000, surpassing their goal of $5,000. {mprestriction ids="1,3"}They are still accepting donations, every dollar earmarked for The Lymphoma Research Foundation. To make a donation, visit www.gofundme.com/KUAepi. For more photos, visit the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/events/1398339730470742.
AN ACT OF GEMILUT CHASADIM (LOVING KINDNESS) — Last month Temple Israel’s Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn helped a Japanese woman fulfill her last wishes. Kiomi was married to a U.S. Navy pilot from Kansas City, Mo., who she met when he was stationed in Japan. Sometime in the 1960s his plane was shot down in Vietnam. He was buried next to his parents in Grand Prairie Cemetery, located just north of Cairo, Mo. When Kiomi died recently, she wanted her ashes scattered over her husband’s grave. So, how did Rabbi Cukierkorn get involved? It seems Kiomi, who was not Jewish, was friendly with a rabbi in Japan who knows Rabbi Cukierkorn. That rabbi made arrangements to send Kiomi’s ashes to Overland Park. Rabbi Cukierkorn and his friend Rev. Gar Demo of St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopalian Church, drove Kiomi’s ashes to the Missouri cemetery, where they conducted a short ceremony and scattered her ashes over her husband’s grave. To read the entire story, go to Moberly Monitor website, www.moberlymonitor.com.{/mprestriction}
