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Neta Meltzer has been named the Jewish Community Relations Bureau | American Jewish Committee (JCRB|AJC) executive director, having served as interim executive director for 10 months.

Jewish Family Services (JFS) has announced the appointment of Angela DeWilde as its new chief executive officer after a national search.

A Jewish baseball whiz kid is the newest radio voice of the Kansas City Royals, impressing big-league fans with his gift for on-air storytelling and sweeping knowledge of the game.

For the past 17 years, Joel Goldberg has brought the stories of Kansas City’s beloved Major League Baseball franchise into the homes of millions on both sides of the Missouri River.

Local Jewish philanthropist and real estate investor Stanley J. Bushman died at age 96 on March 7, leaving a legacy of generosity and support for his community.

Andi Milens, whose career has led her to help Jews around the world, has retired from Jewish professional life.

A new Anti-Defamation League report assessing how 135 U.S. colleges address antisemitism gave the University of Kansas a B — reduced because of a “level of hostile anti-Zionist student groups.”

For the first time in Olathe’s 168-year history, the city has a resident rabbi. Rabbi Mendel Wenger and his wife, Sheina, arrived in late November on a mission to build a Jewish communal network in a city where no synagogue or Jewish institution previously existed.

For 46 years, legal trailblazer Sherrill Rosen has drawn on the Jewish concepts of tikkun olam and tzedakah while working to protect vulnerable children, seniors and domestic violence victims across Jackson County, Missouri.

The New Reform Temple (NRT) has announced Rabbi David Levinsky, Ph.D. will become the congregation’s new rabbi.