This photo was taken at Congregation Ohev Sholom on Labor Day, after the morning minyan, the day before Susan Choucroun was murdered. Choucroun is standing on the right, dressed in the dark pink shirt with her hair pulled back, with her hands on the shoulders of Shir-El Rudnick, who is wearing the Double Bubble shirt.
Just after morning prayers at Ohev Sholom last Monday (Sept. 1), Susan Choucroun posed for the group photo accompanying this article. Twenty-seven hours later, she was murdered.
Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel opened the Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Lawrence, Kan., along with his wife and co-director Nechama, eight years ago. During that time KU Chabad has never had its own Torah, always
As part of the Beans&Greens program, low-income families can take their SNAP debit cards to participating farmers markets, where they receive tokens to purchase SNAP-eligible food.
We live in the breadbasket of America and are surrounded by farms, so it should be easy to get affordable, healthy and locally grown food into everyone’s hands, right? For low-income families trying to make
When it comes to Jewish Federation leadership, Amy Shapiro’s actions speak volumes. She’s been through local leadership development programs, attended national conferences and international missions; she’s been
“Payback: The Case for Revenge,” by Thane Rosenbaum. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
With Ferguson in the news, the horrendous murders in South Kansas City, and the execution of Steven Sotloff, “Payback” is an important book although it is not an easy read. It is a work in which a legal scholar examines
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has become so popular even young children have gotten into the act at the Beth Shalom Rose Family Early Childhood Education Center. The preschool teaches Jewish Values as a core part of its curriculum. The value of tzedakah is one of the first values taught to the children as well as tikkun olam, making the world a better place. Here Judy Jacks Berman, the school’s director, accepts the ALS Ice Bucket challenge from Vicki Diamond and Anne Rosel French. All the Pre-K kids helped Miss Judy fulfill this challenge, thus participating in helping to make our world a better place!
AGEING WISELY — Marna Dolginoff called me the other day, wanting to share a story with me about her friend and cousin, Leah Cohn. It seems about six months or so ago, Cohn called the marketing office at
Strangers No More, an interfaith group to help women of different faiths understand each other better, was founded following the shootings on April 13 by Nancy Brown (clockwise from left), Marcia Rittmaster, Sharon Ritter and Judy Hellman. It is a joint program of the Jewish Community Relations Bureau|American Jewish Committee and the United Methodist Women of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection.
Following the shooting April 13 that killed three non-Jewish people at the Jewish Community Campus and Village Shalom,
Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel opened the Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Lawrence, Kan., along with his wife and co-director Nechama, eight years ago. During that time KU Chabad has never had its own Torah, always
With Ferguson in the news, the horrendous murders in South Kansas City, and the execution of Steven Sotloff, “Payback” is an important book although it is not an easy read. It is a work in which a legal scholar examines