HBHA sukkah getting a refresh
HBHA’s sukkah, last dedicated in 2002, was in need of some TLC. In a Facebook post, the school announced that a new sukkah and outdoor education space is in the works in HBHA’s courtyard.
The courtyard is cleared, the old structure was torn down, and electrical lines and internet are in the process of being set up.
The Sarah “Auntie” Ozar Sukkah will be rebuilt and rededicated thanks to the generous family of Sarah Ozar. Events showcasing HBHA are already scheduled for the new space.
Downtown minyan resumes services
The Kansas City Downtown Minyan (affectionately known as “B’nai Bryant,” from its original home in the Bryant Building) has been holding Mincha and Maariv services Monday through Thursday since 2004. It continued without interruption until COVID forced a hiatus last year.
With everyone vaccinated, members decided to restart the minyan last month. With many regulars still working from home, they are testing out the restart one day a week. (Thursdays have, from the beginning of the minyan, been known as Herring Thursday and include a little pre-Shabbat oneg with schnapps and snacks.)
Once reestablished, members intend to resume the regular four-days-a-week schedule. They meet in the conference room of Suite 900 in the old Harzfeld’s Building at the corner of 11th and Main, at 5:00 p.m.
The Downtown Minyan remains committed to offering a Jewish presence and a place to daven (and, if need be, say Kaddish) in the central city.
KC native funds synagogue, recovery center
Kansas City, Missouri, native Ron Kleiman is providing a new home for his synagogue, Congregation Anshe Tikvah, in Chicago.
The building, which will be called the Kleiman Campus, will also include the Tikvah Center for Jewish Healing and Recovery. The Tikvah Center will provide mental health services, recovery, and spiritual counseling for individuals, couples, families, and small groups.
Kleiman recently sold his business and decided this is what he wanted to do with the money earned from a lifetime of hard work.
Kleiman and his siblings were born and raised in Kansas City; the family moved to Dallas in 1958. He had his Bar Mitzvah at Beth Shalom, and his parents, Helen and Boris David Kleiman, were married there. The Kleiman family still has many family members in Kansas City, including their mother’s sister, Floriene Lieberman.
Kleiman is flying family members from all over the globe to Chicago for the building’s dedication Aug. 27-Aug. 29.
