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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.”

From its inception, The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle has covered the diverse events of the times, from the Holocaust and Israeli-Arab wars to local celebrations such as the opening of the Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy in 1966 and the opening of the Jewish Community Campus in 1988. Now, the articles covering those events, and so many more, are available online.

Brian Platt is celebrating his first year as Kansas City's city manager, a role he took on after being business administrator in Jersey City.

KC Kosher Co-op offers a wide variety of kosher foods for comparatively low prices.

In the January 14 edition of The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, the front page headline read, “COVID notwithstanding, plenty of action on tap for local Jewish community in 2021.” The community certainly had its share of action this year.

Chabad on the Plaza was broken into and damaged last week on the third night of Hanukkah.

In the wake of the United States military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and the mass evacuation of Afghans this summer, Jewish Vocational Service of Kansas City is helping more than 180 Afghan refugees resettle in the Kansas City area.

Dr. William Rosenberg, a neurosurgeon at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, was recently visited by a group of three wounded Israeli soldiers. The visit occurred through Rosenberg’s involvement with Brothers for Life, a nonprofit that helps link injured soldiers to potential healthcare treatments outside of Israel when they may have difficulty getting them in Israel.