Local community member in need of kidney donor
My name is Gerry Trilling, and recently I learned that my genetic kidney disease (polycystic kidney disease-PKD) has progressed.
‘Never again’: Bill would expand Holocaust education in Missouri
(St. Louis Jewish Light) - Sometimes, in the darkest of times, there appears a small flickering light.
Why can’t Moroccan Jews be deemed Shoah survivors?
When Haim Gabbai was 10 in wartime Morocco, his father was taken by force from the family home in Marrakesh and sent to a forced labor camp. A few months later, his father returned. He was ill, thin and had lost all his hair. The conditions in the camp had been atrocious.
‘Double our joy’: Five fascinating facts about the Jewish leap year
Buckle your seatbelts; we’re heading in.
With the arrival of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish world is being thrown headlong into the leap year of 5782.
Rabbis are supposed to offer hope on the High Holidays. What if I can’t?
I was a writer before I became a rabbi and High Holiday sermons usually come easily to me. Some years I have so many ideas and teachings and hopes to share that I accidentally write more sermons than I need to give.
Getting old ain’t like it used to be. Thank God.
I was born at the old St. Joseph’s Hospital on Linwood Boulevard and was fortunate to have been reared in an Orthodox Jewish family. When my parents brought me home from the hospital, I stopped breathing eight times and would have died had my father not instinctively thrown me into the air to catch my breath. Who would have thought I’d live this long?
Winner of B’nai Brith essay contest stresses the need for interfaith dialogue
Ben Mondry is the winner of the 2021 KC Lodge #184, B’nai Brith essay contest, which encompassed more than 50 area schools, churches, synagogues, and youth groups. The Blue Valley North graduating senior received $2,000 and will be attending the University of Kansas in the fall. His essay is below:
I helped organize the Washington rally against antisemitism. It wasn’t perfect, but it was necessary.
When Nazi tanks surrounded Warsaw, my father related in a rare moment of frustration, the Jews were in shul arguing over who should get “shishi” (the honor of being called up third to the Torah).
Banning critical race theory will gut the teaching of Jewish history
Anyone teaching the past by skipping over the unpleasant parts isn’t teaching history. They are engaged in propaganda.
Arab-Israeli suspect arrested in Jaffa firebombing
(JNS) The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and Israel Police announced on Monday the arrest of an Arab Israeli man in his 20s on suspicion of hurling a firebomb that seriously injured an Arab Israeli child in Jaffa last Friday.
New York teen memorializes grandmother who lived in Overland Park for decades
Late last month, 18-year-old Anna Borenstein of Queens, New York, emailed The Chronicle to tell us of the April 16 death of her grandmother, Marilyn (Masha) Silverstein. Borenstein told us that her grandmother and her grandfather, Richard (Mordechai) Silverstein, lived in Overland Park for more than 30 years before moving to New York to be closer to their kids.
Efforts of B’nai Jehudah member presaged Black Lives Matter movement
The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah
Editor’s note: This story was produced as part of B’nai Jehudah’s “A Moment in our History” series running online to celebrate the congregation’s 150th anniversary.
Commentary: Maybe it’s not so bad we are celebrating our son’s Bar Mitzvah during a pandemic
As we inch closer to our son Michael becoming a Bar Mitzvah, it is nothing like I ever imagined it would be. Looking forward to this Jewish milestone, I can’t help but look back to 1989, the year of my Bat Mitzvah.