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An Israeli man in his 20s is dead and four others were injured after a Hamas assailant opened fire with a submachine gun in Jerusalem’s Old City Sunday morning.

Few people can say they’ve served their community for more than 60 years. Rod Minkin, a native Kansas Citian, is one of them. Minkin has been active in the Kansas City Jewish community since the early 1960s and has left an indelible mark on it.

KU Hillel will soon move just a few doors down from its current location to a new, custom-finished location with more than 3,000 square feet of student-facing programming space.

It’s no doubt that the legacy of local Holocaust survivor Sonia Warshawski, known as “Big Sonia” and star of the award-winning documentary with the same name, will live on in Kansas City. Now, thanks to the wonders of technology, her story will live on everywhere.

Joy Koesten is running for the Johnson County Community College Board of Trustees because she’s passionate about the community and making sure there’s a robust educational system afforded to the people who live in Johnson County, she says.

Aharon Zazulia is now the Kansas City NCSY and Jewish Student Union (JSU) Director, following Rabbi Nati Stern. Zazulia developed a love for NCSY after his time in university and hopes to energize and sustain Kansas City’s branch.

Jewish Family Services of Greater Kansas City has significantly expanded its services during the COVID-19 pandemic, including its food pantry, social work support, Care Navigation Line, mental health and education, and Jewish life services, among others.

For Rabbi Samuel Stern, the idea of becoming a rabbi first crossed his mind while his own rabbi was helping him learn for his bar mitzvah.

The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah’s religious school is implementing a new vision where students will go through their school day in four different physical spaces. The spaces will correspond with the themes: Israel — past, present and future; a Jewish home — featuring Judaica from the Michael Klein Collection; a mitzvot workshop for learning, planning, practicing and doing mitzvot; learning from Torah and Judaism’s greatest thought leaders.

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube fail to act upon the majority of reported antisemitic posts, according to a study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate.