Community News

KU Chabad officially broke ground for its new building with a celebration of students, alumni, parents, supporters and donors last Sunday. 

Congregation Beth Shalom will host an evening featuring artisanal cheese, beer and cheese-making discussion with Green Dirt Farm owner Sarah Hoffmann.

Congregation Beth Shalom Sisterhood will host an event focused on combating bullying, featuring the committee of its Banishing Bullying Behavior Project and Dr. Ram Chettiar, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Children’s Mercy Hospital.

Community members can order cheese blintzes, homemade by Michael Crane, from Congregation Beth Torah for breaking the fast after Yom Kippur. 

Jewish Unforgettable Ladies Interested in Eating Together (JULIETs) will host “Understanding and Combating Contemporary Antisemitism,” a presentation by Sarah Markowitz Schreiber, director of education and programs for the Jewish Community Relations Bureau | American Jewish Committee (JCRB|AJC).

The Goldenberg Duo, consisting of siblings Susan and William Goldenberg, will present a series of free recital performances between Sept. 25 and Oct. 7.

Boy Scouts of America Troop 61 will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding this October. 

The history of Kansas City’s Oakwood Country Club is covered in detail in Ward Katz’s new book, “Oakwood’s Living History: From the Progress Club to a New Future — A Family Story.”

KU Hillel has announced its annual Rock Chalk Shabbat event will be held Friday, Nov. 1, at the Burge Union on the University of Kansas’s campus in Lawrence. 

More than 30 faculty members from local congregations’ religious schools recently participated in a day of professional Jewish learning and networking.