Community News

For anyone in the community looking for career assistance, Jewish Vocational Services and Jewish Family Services offer a program to help.

A new group of teen leaders now make up the board of the Kansas City chapter of USY (KCUSY), and they have created and announced new USY programs in addition to continuing to facilitate traditional programs. One new program is Second Saturdays.

The Lewis and Shirley White Theatre will begin its 2022-2023 season with an homage to Jewish contributions to Broadway with a special one-performance concert on Sunday, Oct. 2.

Beth Shalom Sisterhood will host an educational program about the Vilna Ghetto Resistance and lunch on Thursday, Oct. 13, at 10:45 a.m. in Goldsmith Hall.

JFS is partnering with the Rabbinical Association of Greater Kansas City for the High Holiday food drive taking place from Sept. 23 through Oct. 18.

MeltonKC, a regional division of the Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning, has released its fall and winter class schedule that includes a variety of class lengths, topics and teachers, both new and returning.

PJ Library, the flagship program of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation (HGF), is celebrating the delivery of its 50-millionth free book to Jewish families this summer.

Kehilath Israel Synagogue will be hosting Une Soiree Parisienne (A Parisian Evening) on Oct. 30.

To help prepare for and celebrate the upcoming new year, The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah is offering two community-wide events: A scholar-in-residence weekend Sept. 16-17, featuring Dr. Alan Morinis of The Mussar Institute; and Shofar in the Park, a Rosh Hashanah afternoon event on Sept. 26. 

KU Hillel has hired three new additions to their team starting with the 2022 school year.