Community News

Jewish Family Services (JFS) will host its Summer Splash open house, which will include summer activities and learning opportunities about the organization.

The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education’s (MCHE) role in the exhibition “Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away.” has yielded a partnership with the Mizel Museum in Denver, Colorado, to collect testimony from Kansas City area survivors who had not previously shared their stories. 

This year, KU Hillel welcomed more than 60 students for the first-night Passover Seder for the first time in its new space.

Community member Judy Jacobs recently published “Jutka: A Holocaust Survivor’s Account of Lives Destroyed and Family Rebuilt,” a memoir about her experiences during the Holocaust.

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.

The Glenwood Arts Theater will now screen “Big Sonia,” the film about local Holocaust survivor and tailor Sonia Warshawski, every Tuesday.

“Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski,” a play by Clark Young and Derek Goldman, will be performed in the University of Missouri, Columbia Hillel. 

The Kansas City Jewish community and the State of Kansas will commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Damien Timms was named the new executive director of Congregation Beth Torah, serving the synagogue since February.

Congregation Beth Shalom and The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah are partnering to present “Just for Us,” a one-man play by Jewish comedian Alex Edelman.