News

The musical “Memphis” is set to hit the stage at the Lewis and Shirley White Theatre at The J, opening Saturday, Feb. 5, at 7:30 p.m. and running Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays through Feb. 20.

The Flo Harris Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation, which began granting in 1991, is dedicated to continuing the generosity for charitable causes exhibited by Flo Harris during her lifetime. 

Allen Fieldhouse has kosher food options thanks to KU Chabad, which provides a full service kosher deli that is available at all weekday basketball games. 

This February, Jewish Family Services is kicking off its annual Spread the Love Campaign.

Kehilath Israel Synagogue is privileged to name Bill Greenberg as its Minyannaire of the Year.

SevenDays, a Kansas City-based nonprofit organization that promotes kindness and understanding through education and dialogue, is now accepting entries for its annual SevenDays Make a Ripple, Change the World Scholarship. 

McDonald’s Happy Meal creator Bob Bernstein is featured in the fast food episode of the Disney+ series “The ‘80s: Top Ten.” 

Mitzvah Garden KC and the Kansas City Community Gardens will host an Interfaith community-wide educational workshop on the benefits of raised box gardening and the gardening technique of hugelkultur — creating a raised garden bed of rotting wood and plant debris.

Rabbi Neal Schuster, rabbi and senior Jewish educator of KU Hillel for 13 years, will leave KU Hillel after the end of the University of Kansas’s spring semester.

While the congregants of Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, watched and listened to the livestream of the Shabbat service during which an armed man held hostage four individuals, including Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, and the rest of the country and even the world watched and listened to the news, Jewish Federation was receiving its own information and taking action locally.