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A delegation of 28 local Jewish teen athletes recently returned from Houston, Texas, after competing at the 2024 JCC Maccabi Games, and 22 of them medaled across multiple sports.

Kehilath Israel Synagogue has announced that Shelley Palmarine will join as the synagogue’s new executive director.

It has been 130 years since a small band of women chartered the National Council of Jewish Women of Greater Kansas City Section (NCJW).

For nearly two decades, the KU Chabad House has been a small converted duplex. Now, a new, 10,000-square-foot, $6 million Chabad House will cater to the growing Jewish student population at KU.

Attention shown by the office to KU’s Jewish community contrasts starkly with some higher-education DEI programs, which have been accused of stoking antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war.

Few people can claim to be as intertwined with the history of the Kansas City Jewish community as Debbie Granoff.

Attention shown by the office to KU’s Jewish community contrasts starkly with some higher-education DEI programs, which have been accused of stoking antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war.

Little did Melissa Kingston realize when she swabbed her cheek in a Jerusalem ballroom 14 years ago that she would someday help save a stranger’s life.

Kansas City-area families will soon have more support for the important work of raising Jewish children, and it’ll come from the most unsurprising of characters: bubbies and zaydes.

American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) 2024 Global Forum in Washington, D.C., brought together more than 2,000 Jewish and pro-Israel advocates from over 50 countries — and more than 30 from Kansas City.