Community News

Jewish Vocational Service has been selected as one of six local nonprofit organizations to benefit from the Light the World Giving Machines in Kansas City.

A lot has changed in Kansas City’s Jewish community in 35 years. Key findings from the recent Kansas City Jewish Community Study conducted by Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City found a need for change, collaboration and connection.

For Lori and Paul Barnett, the mitzvah of bikur cholim – visiting the sick – has been part of their weekly routine for almost a decade.

Jewish Family Services’ Hanukkah Project will provide hundreds of its Jewish clients with gifts for the Festival of Lights that begins at sundown on Sunday, Dec. 18.

Jewish Family Services can help those with questions about Medicare enrollment and its benefits.

Maddie Reiches, a young leader in the Kansas City Jewish community recently nominated to the Jewish Federation board, is preparing to travel to Argentina next month with The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, as part of an “Entwine Insider Trip.”

The Jewish Nutcracker returns to The Lewis and Shirley White Theatre at The Jewish Community Center (The J) for its second year with a total of three performances: Sunday, Dec. 4 at 4 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 11 at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. 

One of the oldest rivalries in college sports, the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri have competed against each other since 1891. Now that cross-conference matchups have resumed, KU Hillel and Mizzou Hillel want to use that rivalry to support their students.

The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah is bringing artists-in-residence Isaac and Rabbi Shawna Brynjegard-Bialik, who call what they do “Paper Midrash.”  

SevenDays is seeking original designs by area high school artists (9-12 grades) to capture the daily themes of SevenDays Make a Ripple, Change the World.