Since Kansas Poet Laureate Emeritus Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg's nonfiction book, “Needle in the Bone: How a Holocaust Survivor and Polish Resistance Fighter Found Each Other and Beat the Odds,” was published in 2012, she has brought this story of the Holocaust and Polish Resistance to dozens of small towns and cities throughout Kansas.

Over the past few years, a combination of the pandemic and changing needs in the local Jewish community inspired the Kansas City Community Kollel’s board to develop a new vision and strategy.