Community News

Judy Jacks Berman will be honored with “Somewhere Over Judy’s Rainbow,” a celebration of her 30-year career as director of Congregation Beth Shalom’s Rose Family Early Childhood Education Center.

Jewish Community Relations Bureau | American Jewish Committee (JCRB|AJC) is now accepting applications from rising high school sophomores, juniors and seniors for the 2024-2025 Leaders for Tomorrow (LFT) cohort, beginning in the fall of 2024.

The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education (MCHE) has announced its Generation of Memory Initiative with the goal of supporting and engaging family members and descendants of Holocaust survivors to preserve survivors’ histories. 

Jewish Experiences, a collaboration of Jewish Federation and The J, is partnering with local community organizations to commemorate Yom HaZikaron and celebrate Yom Ha’Atzmaut again this year.

This year’s community Yom HaShoah commemoration to remember those killed in the Holocaust filled the Lewis and Shirley White Theatre at The J on Sunday, May 5.

Hadassah Greater Kansas City will celebrate its 22nd Annual Hadassah Walk for Health sponsored by its Nurses Council.

Doug Cohen has been named a 2023 Wealth Club Winner and is donating his $2,500 winnings for charity to Jewish Family Services (JFS).

During Passover, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed into law the state’s budget, which included a line item under the Department of Administration to “add $500,000 state grant funding to provide additional security for Jewish centers of faith in [fiscal year] 2024.”

With June quickly approaching, staff for J Camp at The J are preparing for an influx of more than 825 youth between the ages of 5 and 13 this summer.

Jewish Unforgettable Ladies Interested in Eating Together (JULIETs), the Kansas City Jewish community’s newest women’s group, will host a presentation by Shawnee, Kansas, Fire Department Battalion Chief Quentin Hammontree.