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Kansas City artist, Gerry Trilling, debuts a new body of work entitled “Memory Ponds: Crocheting by the Light of Netflix” at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, Missouri, from Sept. 25 – Nov. 8. “Memory Ponds” marks Trilling’s first solo museum exhibition and is a departure from her previous work. More than 150 unique crocheted “drawings” will be exhibited, from palm-sized to room-sized works. The exhibition opens to the public Friday, Sept. 25, from 4 to 7 p.m.

The Sarah Peltzman Educational Series, Unit One, begins Thursday, Oct. 15. Classes will be held 10-11 a.m. via Zoom. The cost is $15 per unit or $36 for all three units. The fee for couples is $40 and includes all three units.

The Beth Shalom Sisterhood Gift Shop won’t be able to open the shop permanently until after Dec. 31, unless COVID-19 is still a problem.

If you have any immediate needs (Shabbat candles, mezuzahs and scrolls, other basic needs or gifts), call Mary Weiner at 913-642-9363. She will call Stefanie Williams, executive director, to set up an appointment.

In the meantime, Connie Simon has been working on setting up a website for the gift shop. Sisterhood will then photograph items in the shop for you to peruse. Sisterhood has already set up an online program for members to pay their dues and it works well.

 

Have you planned your menu for Shabbat/Sukkot dinner? Erev Sukkot begins at sundown Friday, Oct. 2. Skip the meal preparation and enjoy a delicious catered meal in your sukkah. This holiday meal will be prepared by Cathy Levin, Kosher Connection. Deadline for ordering your Shabbat/Sukkot meal is Tuesday, Sept. 29. Curbside pickup is from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2.

This year’s Rock Chalk Shabbat — now called Rock Chalk Shabayit — will be in your home.

KU Hillel’s Rock Chalk Shabbat is now coast-to-coast. For the 19th year of Rock Chalk Shabbat, the largest Shabbat experience at KU, KU Hillel has innovated to a completely virtual event. The best part? You can enjoy the fun of Rock Chalk Shabbat from the comfort of your living room.

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. 

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