Chapel names new manager
Imagine being a 20-year-old about to graduate from junior college and wondering what to do next. Your first thought is to take a year off and figure it out. But your dad has other ideas. He asks you if you’ve ever thought about the funeral industry.
In a show of solidarity and support for the Kansas City Jewish community, Kansas City, Missouri Mayor Quinton Lucas and Leawood Mayor Peggy Dunn have signed onto the Mayors United Against Antisemitism initiative.
Project aims to create Kansas City Jewish Community Digital Archive
Imagine a website where you could search for a name and see every time that name showed up in the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle and other scanned documents—births, baby namings, b’nei mitzvah, volunteer events and celebrations, and special moments in Jewish family and community life.
In 1985, Ronald Reagan was president, a stamp cost $0.20 and the Kansas City Royals celebrated their first World Series win. 1985 was also the last time a comprehensive study of our Jewish community was conducted...
Nina Baran was frustrated watching her younger brother, Isaac, participating in Boy Scout Troop 61 at Congregation Beth Shalom. Nina had been a Girl Scout when she was younger, but it wasn’t for her. As she watched Isaac learn how to build fires and go on camping trips, she knew that was the kind of Scouting she wanted to do, but at that time the Scouts was not open to girls...
Leaders of the Jewish Community Relations Bureau|American Jewish Committee said the agency drew on its strong ties with the local education community in the wake of an anti-Semitic incident at The Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City.
Jewish Family Services serves approximately 1,100 clients who are 65 and older, about half of whom have mobility challenges. Many of these clients might be in nursing homes without the wraparound services JFS provides, including deliveries from its food pantry, JET Express rides, and handyman services through Help@Home.
Jewish agencies and organizations in our community had to quickly adapt to the pandemic, especially when it came to in-person programming. The situation was no different for Avodah Kansas City, which brings together young Jewish professionals who are passionate about the intersection of social justice and their faith.
