Community News

While helping with a baking group at Congregation Beth Torah last fall, Michael Crane was handed a set of handwritten recipe notes by his friend Marcia Rittmaster.

NCJW’s Stacey’s Closet program is beginning its fifth year providing school children in the Kansas City metro area with essential clothing.

The Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation (LJCC) will host an on-site historical tour of the Beni Israel Cemetery.

Community members Erwin and Phyllis Abrams have been selected as the honorary hosts for the Johnson County Library Foundation’s (JCLF) Library Lets Loose celebration fundraiser.

Growing up in the 1950s, Phyllis Stevens recognized the social inequalities that people of color faced and grew passionate about addressing those issues.

Jewish Family Services Food Pantry’s corporate partners help to keep its shelves stocked at the two locations, at the Jewish Community Campus in Kansas and Brookside in Missouri.

Although Rabbi Herbert J. Mandl retired from Kehilath Israel Synagogue (K.I.) on Aug. 1, 2012, he had no immediate plans to move.

Village Shalom will hold an open house celebration for its 25th anniversary at its current location, the Helzberg Campus. Community members are invited to the gathering on Sept. 7 from 3 to 6 p.m.

Dr. Alan Poisner, a race walker for 40 years, recently won four medals at the biannual National Senior Games.

The Jewish Community Foundation (JCF) recently hired two new staff members to join its accounting team.