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KU Hillel is already counting down the days until Passover with their students. For the second year in a row, Hillel has created virtual components for their Seder — but COVID-19 will not stop this community!

Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy is a little over a week away from its first-ever Civic Service Award Private Broadcast Celebration. It is going to be a beautiful event honoring Tibor Klausner, of blessed memory, and if you haven’t RSVP’d yet, do so before it’s too late at hbha.edu, or send a check to HBHA Celebration.

A pre-recorded virtual Passover Seder created by the Rabbinical Association is being offered this year to assist families as they host their own home Seder.

Food insecurity continues to grow in Kansas City, and the Jewish Family Services Food Pantry is on the front lines helping hundreds of people each month.

Join Congregation Beth Shalom from noon to 2 p.m. on May 2 to paint, clean, weed, rake and more at Mount Carmel Cemetery, 5529 Ditzler Road. The day will be spent beautifying the cemetery.

Community Blood Center (CBC) is partnering with SevenDays Make a Ripple, Change the World, an event that promotes kindness and interfaith dialogue in the greater Kansas City area by inviting the public to virtually take part in themed activities over a two-week period, April 13-25, with one exception. Blood donation.

Join The J’s My Jewish Kitchen and Congregation Beth Torah for “Etgar” Pesach: Cooking Challenge, an interactive “Chopped”-like cooking challenge, 6-7:30 p.m. on March 31 via Zoom.

Zedek left for Cincinnati, Chicago after making his mark at B’nai Jehudah

Guess who’s coming to dinner? It’s Rabbi Michael Zedek! Coming not just for dinner, but also for family, to renew old friendships, to teach and to enjoy his retirement by settling into a place that has always been near and dear to him.

If you ask Director of Community Security Chuck Green what’s on his to-do list, he’ll likely rattle off 10 projects that have him going in 10 different directions, working with multiple organizations and synagogues at one time.

Here at The Chronicle we are thrilled by the response to our Passover recipe contest. Below are the second round of submissions we received by the March 8 deadline. We published the initial submissions in the March 4 issue and you can view all of the submissions individually on our Passover Recipe Contest page. You can vote for your favorite(s) by filling out the voting form or by emailing editor, Mike Sherry by March 21. The form has links to all of the recipes to read again before voting. Look for a profile of our top vote-getter in the March 25 issue.