Community News

Congregation Beth Torah’s tenth grade confirmation class was supposed to go on a confirmation trip to Washington D.C. in January.

Hadassah Greater Kansas City will have a celebration event on Tuesday, June 28, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., at Culture House in Oak Park Mall, 11149 W 95th St, Overland Park, KS 66214.

To promote its Wipe Out campaign for toilet paper collections, Jewish Family Services staff and leadership are hosting an open house from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on June 16 at JFS’ Brookside East location, 425 E. 63rd Street.

Joshua (JC) Cuttler brings more than 10 years of experience at Jewish summer camps to his new role of Assistant Director of Staffing & Programming at Camp Sabra.

“Judaism for Conversion Candidates,” a communitywide course for people interested in converting to Judaism, begins on August 18.

Last week marked the end of the KU Chabad’s 32nd semester at the KU campus.

In the aftermath of the George Floyd murder and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, Alan Edelman and Debbie Sosland-Edelman, with the encouragement and support of Rabbi David Glickman and Beth Shalom leadership, established a Social Justice Committee.

Jewish Changemakers, Jewish Federations of North America's virtual leadership development experience for Jewish young adults between the ages of 20 and 24, is recruiting participants for its upcoming summer sessions.

Berenice Haberman was honored for her contributions to the Beth Shalom Sisterhood, the synagogue, and the community at Beth Shalom's Sisterhood Torah Fund Luncheon on April 27, 2022.  

The State of Kansas, represented by Governor Laura Kelly, memorialized the victims of the Holocaust on April 28, 2022, in the Kansas State Capitol Rotunda in Topeka, Kansas.