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Last week’s collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, is more than just a distant tragedy to Rabbi Mendy Wineberg, director of Chabad of Leawood.

In March 2020, when the pandemic hit and the world temporarily shut down, everyone was looking for a way to safely leave the confines of their homes and get a little social interaction. For one group of Leawood neighbors, their solution is still going strong 18 months later.

Development comes as Truman Library & Museum prepares to reopen after $28 million renovation

Eleven minutes.

That’s how long it took President Harry S. Truman to officially recognize the newly proclaimed State of Israel on May 14, 1948.

Testimonies passed through generations

The scene is Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War II. A Jewish man just liberated from Buchenwald learns from the American Red Cross that his wife has also survived, but is in another concentration camp 200 miles north.

Israel’s newly sworn-in Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has many landmines to navigate. One concerns land issues in Israel’s Negev Desert, specifically whether he will rein in unregulated Bedouin settlements that some say threaten to overwhelm Israel’s land reserves in the south.

Kansas City native has led the temple from turmoil to transformation

It’s not like Arthur Nemitoff was pining away for home.

Lisa Bauman’s first glimpse of the German words “ARBEIT MACHT FREI” (“Work sets you free”) perched in wrought iron atop the front gate of Auschwitz enveloped her in a sinister silence.

After 12 straight years as Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu is losing power — and the government that’s about to replace him is remarkable in its own right.

Flora draws on Judaic teaching of tikkun olam for public service, run for Mission mayor

Sollie Flora draws on her legal training to work through complicated issues as a city council member in Mission, Kansas.

(JNS) Israeli Supreme Court President Esther Hayut blasted critics of the court at the annual Israel Bar Association conference in Eilat on Monday.