These days they’re playing digital board games and coming together online to celebrate Israel’s birthday, but a couple of weeks before our world began to close, Midwest Jewish Student Union returned from a five-day Relief Missions trip to New Orleans. The theme of the weekend: building homes, building yourself.
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly and Consul General Gilad Katz last month (Courtesy Consulate General of Israel in Houston)
“I thought I really knew the American Jews… And then when I arrived here I understood that I knew nothing. Absolutely nothing. Israelis do not understand the language, the mentality of the American Jews,” Consul General Gilad Katz told The Chronicle.
Cantor Paul Silbersher of Temple B’nai Jehudah sings a song in memory of Kristallnacht at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of ‘The Night of Broken Glass’ in October 1988 at the Jewish Community Campus.
The Jewish community is mourning the death of Cantor Paul Silbersher who passed away Sunday, April 26, at age 90. The Jewish Chronicle talked with two people who were especially close to him.
The Memorial to the Six Million Monument at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City.
“Although we gather not physically together but only spiritually and emotionally as a community to commemorate Yom HaShoah, we can still remember,” Rabbi Sarah Smiley of The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah began the virtual commemoration.
Hess with the ODA Company Dancers 2018-2019. (Mike + Julie Storytellers)
By Meryl Feld / Editor
Dance studio owners across Kansas have been meeting digitally to lean on each other for support and to swap notes on how they are keeping their students dancing. One of those dance studio owners calls the Kansas City Jewish community home.
The 2020 census contains a question that is raising questions for Jews. (Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
By Ron Kampeas / JTA
It’s the ninth question on the census, and for many Jewish respondents, it’s a surprising — and sometimes unwelcome — invitation to consider who exactly they are.
Mitchell Schwartz is having some fun, with food, off the gridiron. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images; Mitchell Schwartz/Instagram)
By Emily Burack / JTA
Fresh off his Super Bowl win in February, Kansas City Chiefs lineman Mitchell Schwartz took a vacation with his wife, Brooke, to St. Lucia. Little did they know that when they returned, they would be spending the next few months holed up at home because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Community Blood Center (CBC) is partnering with SevenDays® Make a Ripple, Change the World, a weeklong event that promotes kindness and interfaith dialogue in the greater Kansas City area by inviting the public to virtually take part in themed activities, April 21-27, with one exception. Blood donation.
Dr. Dalton at Menorah Medical Center ER, where WeCan KC delivered N95 masks, respirators, respirator refills and gloves.
WeCan KC is a group of Kansas City metropolitan area citizens, working to facilitate the transfer of needed supplies between individuals and institutions caring for COVID-19 patients.
