STEVE STRAS RECEIVES BUCK O’NEIL LEGACY AWARD — On June 24, Ohev Sholom congregant Steve Stras was awarded the Buck O’Neil Legacy Award by the Kansas City Royals. The honor is designed to remember the impact of Buck O’Neil and to honor those who are vital to our community.
Have you ever stopped to think just how often we use clean, running water? It’s not something Maggie Fried thought much about until she accepted a position in the JDC Entwine Global Jewish Service Corps.
SHOWING TONIGHT ONLY — The documentary “Finding Hillywood,” is showing at 7:30 p.m. tonight only, Thursday, June 26, at the Glenwood Arts Theater at Metcalf South Shopping Center. The award-winning documentary was produced and directed by Leah
Out in the open air. That’s how members of Kehilath Israel Synagogue and Temple Israel plan to welcome Shabbat three times this summer. The first will take place next Friday night, June 27.
Local fans of Hadassah Magazine will see a familiar face when they thumb through the current issue. Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn and his Brit Braja Worldwide Jewish Outreach are featured in the summer edition of the international magazine.
In addition to being called Chag Matan Torah — festival of receiving the Torah — Shavuot is also known as Z’man HaBikkurim, the time of the first fruits. So to the Yeshiva University interns here in Kansas City this month, it seemed fitting to take their “Lox & Learn” Sunday breakfast program on the road to the Mitzvah Garden KC, located on the grounds of The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah.
“Margot,” by Jillian Cantor, New York: Riverhead Books, 2014
Ever since the publication of her diary, Anne Frank has become in many ways the iconic image of the Holocaust. We can speak of the 6 million (not to mention the many others whose lives were scarred by the events of that period), but 6 million is still a number. Anne Frank and the others who shared her family’s makeshift attic apartment put a human face on the Nazi reign
“Invisible City” by Julia Dahl, Minotaur Books, 2014
In her first novel, investigative reporter Julia Dahl writes about the death of a Hasidic woman in Brooklyn. Her protagonist Rebekah Roberts is also an investigative reporter covering the case of this woman discovered in a junk yard. Rebekah is a young woman who is new to New York and clueless about the world of Orthodox Jews. However, Rebekah’s mother was a Hasidic woman who temporarily fled the confines
SHABBAT IN THE PARK — Last summer’s experiment with Shabbat in the Park was so successful for The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah that they are planning to have it again this summer. The first Shabbat in the Park, held at Leawood’s Gezer Park at 133rd and Mission Road, will take place tomorrow night. (The other two will be held July 18 and Aug. 15.) The Kabbalat Shabbat service begins at 6 p.m., preceded by a bisseleh nosh at 5:30 p.m., and is made possible with support from B’nai Jehudah Sisterhood.
April’s fatal shooting at Village Shalom has had a palpable effect on the entire senior living community, according to its president and CEO, Matt Lewis. But two months after the murder of Terri LaManno in the center’s parking lot, the staff has moved from crisis mode to reflection.
