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Monthly Shabbat meals to go will be taking a break during the months of July and August. They will resume in September.

In observance of Tisha B’Av (the fast day that is on the ninth of the Hebrew month of Av), a period of fasting, lamentation and prayer to remember the destruction of the first and second Temples of Jerusalem and other major disasters and tragedies that Jewish people experienced throughout history, the local Jewish community will come together to remember this dark period in our people’s history. 

Village Shalom is once again open to resident families and visitors. In-person weekly Shabbat services are hosted every Friday evening at 4:00 pm in the Appleman Synagogue. Village Shalom relies on volunteers 16 years of age and up to lead services for our residents and their guests and is looking to expand its pool of volunteers.

Pro-Palestinian activists were swarming the social media comments sections of Ben & Jerry’s to demand the company boycott Israel.

In response, Ben & Jerry’s appears to have indeed entered a boycott — of social media itself.

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.

Twenty-two high school singers from across the metro have been selected as semifinalists for KC SuperStar 2021.

It will be a fun day on June 27 at The J – Jewish Community Center’s annual Youth Triathlon. The competition returns after a year’s absence due to the pandemic.

Jewish Family Services is saluting one of its own, Kelly Loeb, older adult care manager, who was chosen as Ms. Juneteenth 2021 by a committee of organizers of the annual celebration in Kansas City.

Several tickets have already been sold in an online raffle benefiting KU Chabad’s work enhancing Jewish life at the University of Kansas.