Community News

Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) announced its Emergency Support Campaign to help fund the settlement of more than 100 immigrant families.

Jewish Family Services (JFS) is offering a Pre-Passover Communitywide Service of Spiritual Renewal on Sunday, March 30, at 3 p.m. at the social hall of Village Shalom (5500 W. 123rd St., Overland Park, KS 66209).

KC Kosher Meals on Wheels is raising money for its 2025 Passover campaign to ensure it can deliver homemade kosher-for-Passover meal boxes to community members in need.

A proposed Missouri law guarding against discrimination and antisemitism in public schools has moved to the next step in the legislative process.

Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy (HBHA) hosted a sold-out celebration, “A Night of Stars: Celebrating Our Educators,” raising $370,000 from more than 300 attendees to support the school and its mission to provide an exceptional Jewish and general studies education to students in the Kansas City community.

KU Chabad, in partnership with Chabad YoungKC, a project of Chabad on the Plaza, hosted a “Mega Purim Party” for young Jewish professionals in Kansas City.

The Jewish Community Foundation’s (JCF) Jewish Leadership, Education, Action and Development (J-LEAD) program has a new co-chair, Thaddeus Diamond.

After 14 years as the pulpit rabbi of The New Reform Temple (NRT), Rabbi Alan Londy will retire at the end of June and become the synagogue’s first rabbi emeritus.

The annual State of Kansas Holocaust Commemoration, an official state observance to memorialize the victims of the Holocaust, will be held next month in Topeka, Kansas.

Jewish Family Services (JFS) is offering a Pre-Passover Communitywide Service of Spiritual Renewal on Sunday, March 30, at 3 p.m. at the Social Hall of Village Shalom (5500 W. 123rd St., Overland Park, KS 66209).