Five local Boy Scouts from Troop 61 stand with boxes of food items they collected in their neighborhoods. The ambitious Scouts include (from left) Sam Hochler, Eric Fine, Shaefer Spizman, Danny Galler and Danny Martin. Together they collected more than 1,200 pounds of food for the Jewish Family Services Food Pantry.
It’s been a tough summer for area kids with so many restrictions due to the pandemic, but five members of the Jewish Boy Scout Troop 61 decided to make the best of it — and indeed, they did.
MCHE Executive Director Jessica Rockhold was at Union Station on Tuesday for the announcement that Union Station will host the international exhibition ‘Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.’ beginning in June 2021.
Union Station, MCHE partner to host international exhibition in K.C.
Union Station will host one of the most comprehensive Holocaust exhibitions about Auschwitz ever exhibited in North America, “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.” The exhibition is being brought to Kansas City in partnership with the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education (MCHE) and will open in June 2021. MCHE will host a series of public and educational programming that will feature experts on the Holocaust and be available through the exhibition.
While implementing fun and memorable ways to stay safe at school during the pandemic, HBHA kindergarten students Sadie Schlozman and Tamir Ben-Aharon show their superhero-style physical distancing skills as they ‘spread their arms out to fly.’
By Jane Martin Special to The Chronicle
Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy is off to a great start for the school year, using its cyclical learning model. In their first week back at school, all HBHA students, K-12, engaged in virtual-only learning, followed by a week of in-person learning during Labor Day week. This week they are back in their virtual classrooms, and, if Johnson County COVID numbers remain steady, the plan is to continue alternating in-person and virtual weeks for the foreseeable future.
