For more than two decades, KU Hillel has celebrated its community with an annual Rock Chalk Shabbat. During the pandemic, it transformed its usual 500-person event into a virtual Rock Chalk Shabayit, where their community welcomed the event into their bayits (homes).
Jewish Family Services assists many people in our community thanks to the hard work and support of both its staff and board of directors. Recently, several dedicated volunteers were tapped to serve as board officers, along with six new members joining the JFS board of directors.
Wanted: great designs by area high school artists (9-12 grades) to capture the daily themes of SevenDays Make a Ripple, Change the World. It’s part of the annual SevenDays button art competition, with design submissions due by midnight on Dec. 17, 2021.
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City is excited to announce that it will be sponsoring local Jewish teen athletes and artists to participate in the 2022 JCC Maccabi Games hosted by the JCC of San Diego, July 31-August 5, 2022.
Village Shalom is once again open to resident families and visitors. In-person weekly Shabbat services are hosted every Friday evening at 4:00 pm in the Appleman Synagogue.
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art is the virtual venue for the Dec. 9 Learn, Laugh and Love program presented by Jewish Family Services and The J.
The Jewish Community Foundation brought together nonprofit leaders for its biennial Legacy Giving Day program on Nov. 11.
More than 90 people from across the United States wore something red and viewed the Hadassah Greater Kansas City Fourth Annual Touch of Red Gala: Celebrate Life! event on Saturday, Nov. 20, via Zoom.
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.
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.
