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Jeremy Antes and Paul Himmelstein are partners in Prism Real Estate Services and active members and supporters of the Kansas City Jewish community.

In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City’s board of directors on Monday approved a grant of $139,000, joining the Jewish Federations of North America’s (JFNA) $20 million emergency campaign to provide humanitarian assistance to vulnerable Jewish populations living in Ukraine.

The Kansas City Jewish Community Digital Archive, jewishkcarchives.org/, is launching with digital issues of The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle’s entire back catalog, plus local history video interviews — and it’s looking to the community to help it grow more. 

Three families in the Kansas City Jewish community have welcomed “Priya babies” since the end of December.

The Rabbinical Association of Greater Kansas City’s yearly conversion class not only welcomes new converts into the Jewish community, it helps them build a community of their own.

February is Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month (JDAIM), and one local program is working to help educate our community’s Jewish educators.

Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy has completed security upgrades at its main entrance and elsewhere in the school. 

MeltonKC, under the direction of Program Director Megan Pener, was recently honored with the Florence Melton Award, Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning’s highest award. 

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.