Israel Border Police Commander Maj. Gen. Yaakov (Kobi) Shabtai with FIDF National Director and CEO Maj. Gen. (Res.) Meir Klifi-Amir and FIDF National President Peter Weintraub at an Israel Border Police base on Nov. 12, 2017, during the FIDF National Leadership Mission to Israel, which Weintraub chaired. Weintraub will be in Kansas City for an FIDF event May 1 at Kehilath Israel Synagogue.
Israeli activist Marva Zohar is on a journey fueled by “unstoppable conviction.” With Kansas City being among her most recent stops along the way, she hopes such passion will resonate as much here as it has across Israel and other parts of the world.
In the 1960s, Rabbi Morris Margolies, of blessed memory, gave a series of lectures for an adult education program. They were so well received, they were published in a pamphlet titled “Ten Turning Points in Jewish History.”
Although the title of Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg’s latest book “Miriam’s Well: A Modern Day Exodus,” nods at the Bible, this novel’s contemporary protagonist is at most a very loose interpretation of her ancient namesake. The modern Miriam’s journey to self-discovery is as much or more formed by her experience of a mid-20th-century landscape of tumultuous change and unrest, as it is by spiritual or cultural Judaism.
While in Washington, D.C., last week for a screening of ‘BIG SONIA’ on Capitol Hill, Sonia Warshawski met former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole. Kansas Rep. Kevin Yoder hosted the screening. ‘BIG SONIA’ will end it’s 20-week run at the Glenwood Arts with final showings on Saturday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 22, at 5:15 p.m. Directors Leah Warshawski and Todd Soliday will be there for a Q&A after each showing. A special musical performance is also on tap.
Leawood native Jonathan Edelman, a curatorial assistant at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, recently met with the cast of The Culture House Stage and Studio’s ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ to share what life would have been like for the Frank family and others in hiding. Shown are Madeline King — Anne Frank (from left), Katie Peek — Margot Frank, Emma Jacobson — Miep Gies, Edelman and Ryan Jacobs —Peter Van Daan.
‘THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK’ — When the Culture House Stage and Studio presents “The Diary of Anne Frank” beginning next week, its only Jewish cast member, Emma Jacobson, will play Miep Gies, the non-Jewish character responsible for helping the Franks hide from the Nazis. Emma is an eighth-grade student at Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy.
Three generation of Wineberg rebbetzin run Mikvah Chana at Chabad House Center in Overland Park — Devorey Wineberg, Blumah Wineberg and Esty Perman. Photo by Scott Fishman
Although a mikvah needs living water, the floods that hit Mikvah Chana last summer weren’t spiritual — they were destructive. The mikvah, located at Chabad House, continues to function, but it needs some serious repairs to fix walls, destroyed cabinets and more.
