Community News

In its continuing effort to serve families, Jewish Family Services (JFS), in partnership with Sasone, is presenting “Nurturing Parenting: Growing loving, happy and thriving relationships.”

Jewish Family Services (JFS) is launching a new grief therapy group for Jews in the Kansas City area.

More than 300 Jewish individuals and families were able to receive Hanukkah gifts because of Jewish Family Services’ (JFS) 2023 Hanukkah Project.

Community members Karen Gerson and her son Gilli are traveling on a volunteer trip to Israel to help its agricultural sector from Dec. 14 to 25. The trip, organized by Israel Food Rescue, is one of many taking volunteers to Israel to help prevent a food shortage.

Local Catholic school St. Teresa’s Academy hosted volunteer teen actors from the local Jewish community who performed a staged reading of “Thank You For Meeting Me Here,” a short play about a student’s experience with antisemitism in school.

Several high school students in the community recently took part in a teen mental health first aid training put on by KCteen and Jewish Family Services (JFS).

Strangers No More, an interfaith women’s group, recently completed its 2023 fall series of discussions and community service projects.

The annual Chabad-sponsored “Grand Community-wide Chanukah Celebration” at the Kansas State Capitol will bring Hanukkah celebrations into the central hub of Kansas’ government.

Seven-year-old Noah Unell, known as “The Menorah Man” by his friends and family, held an art show to display his handmade menorahs and raise money for Israelis affected by the ongoing Israel-Hamas War.

Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City hosted its annual meeting last Thursday.