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The Jewish Community Foundation recently brought together community leaders for “A New Take on the Positivity Rate,” the latest installment of its Parking Lot Lunch series. Professionals from local Jewish community organizations were invited to reconnect, network, and share positive personal and professional outcomes of the pandemic. The event, which took place outside in the Dan Fingersh Memorial Garden of Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy, was the Foundation’s first in-person program since March of 2020.

Four years at KU Hillel wasn’t enough for Ally Fabes. When she was hired last year as an Engagement Associate, she found it incredibly fulfilling to come back to the nest. Now, Fabes takes on a new role at KU Hillel: Program Director.

This year’s community Tisha B’Av observances will include a virtual discussion at 4 p.m., July 18 titled From Destruction to Redemption: Personal Stories of Addiction and Recovery. It will be hosted by the Rabbinical Association and Jewish Family Services of Greater Kansas City.

Want to do the mitzvah of saving a life and thus saving the world? Please consider donating a kidney to me. I’m a retiree and member of the KC Jewish community whose kidney function has deteriorated despite my doing all the right things. Though I’m on the list for a kidney from a deceased donor, there are over 100,000 others also waiting. I want to avoid dialysis (which isn’t a cure) as the five-year life expectancy on dialysis is much lower than for breast cancer.

Simcha Gifts, a program of the Chabad House Center, has experienced much success this year in preparing and delivering holiday packages to a variety of people within the Jewish community, including seniors living in facilities and their own homes.

As NFL beat writers go, Jori Epstein is likely among the more unique: Start with being a woman, she doesn’t work on Shabbat and she has penned a Holocaust survivor’s biography. The Dallas resident, who attended Jewish day schools and camps, is only 26, too.

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.

For a decade, Melanie Allmayer has served as a spiritual care volunteer through the chaplaincy program at Jewish Family Services. Whether visiting a patient in the hospital or making a call to an older adult living in a long-term care facility, Allmayer continues providing caring conversation, a listening ear and a hand to hold.

While it’s no secret that the stock market has rebounded from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the recovery hasn’t been consistent across all asset classes.