Thirty-four years after the skywalk at the Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed, ground was broken last week for a Skywalk Memorial to be constructed at Hospital Hill Park, located at 22nd and Gillham, on the north grounds of Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri.
This fall semester, as part of its adult learning initiative and in addition to the rich variety of Jewish Studies courses being offered in Lawrence, KU’s Jewish Studies Program will expand its course offerings at the KU Edwards Campus, located at 12600 Quivira Road in Overland Park.
SOCCER ALL-STAR — Benny Feilhaber, the Jewish midfielder who joined Sporting Kansas City before the 2013 season has been named to the 2015 AT&T Major League Soccer All-Star roster. He is joined by teammates Matt Besler and Graham Zusi on the 22-player squad. The MLS All-Stars will face English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 29. The game will be shown live on FOX Sports 1 and UniMas from Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado.
“He was one in a million.”
Ask Hortense Haith about her late husband today, and her eyes light up just as they did when the two first met at a Kansas City roller-skating rink nearly 70 years ago. Joseph and Hortense Haith were high school sweethearts. They married on Dec. 1, 1949, and shared more than 59 years together until Joseph passed away in August of 2009.
A rabbi who surfs the Internet for transsexual escorts stands trial for borrowing and stealing almost $500,000 from his congregation to pay off an extortionist.
Another rabbi is sentenced to more than six years in jail for videotaping naked women in his synagogue’s ritual bath.
A third rabbi is being told to leave his pulpit following media reports about his decades-long penchant for spending time in saunas with naked boys and men.
And that’s just news reports over the past few weeks.
A congregant might wonder who’s watching the rabbis.
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NAME THAT TUNE — Keith Klein loves music and has always been able to play the piano by ear. He says, ‘If I can hum a song, I usually can play it.’ So about 15 years ago he began sharing his love of music with senior citizens when his grandmother was living at Brookdale Grand Court. Over the years he has played the piano, always as a volunteer, at The Atriums, Brookdale Leawood, Lamar Court and now Village Shalom. He enjoys interacting with senior citizens and his goal each and every time he visits a senior center is to see each person in the audience smile and sometimes even sing along. He now regularly plays the piano at Village Shalom. It’s his favorite place to play, ‘because I know nearly all of my audience.’ I took in a show this week, it was fabulous. Thanks Keith!
Jewish Family Services is now an approved behavioral health provider for Medicare. The social service agency has been accepting Medicare since July 1.
JFS offers counseling for adults and families, offering a wide array of integrative therapies and services. Its staff is comprised of social workers, professional counselors, and psychologists. All of the agency’s staff is licensed and credentialed and are all approved Medicare providers.
Three years ago The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah Senior Rabbi Arthur Nemitoff had an idea to do something new and different for the summer, patterned after a popular service he had seen in Israel. That idea became Shabbat in the Park, held three times a summer at Leawood’s Gezer Park. The second in this year’s series will be held on Friday, July 17, at the public park located at 133rd Street and Mission Road.
One of the most common complaints voiced by Jewish people is that it is expensive to belong to a congregation and send children to religious school. Kehilath Israel Synagogue is doing something about that. At its last meeting, K.I.’s board of directors unanimously approved a motion to open the Kehilath Israel Fred Devinki Religious School to the entire Jewish community tuition free. Sam Devinki, honorary president for life, said, “The board felt it is critically important that all Jewish children have access to quality education.”
Award-winning writer Victor Wishna is at it again. His short play, “The Impressionists,” will be presented at the 2015 Kansas City Fringe Festival. Wishna’s play is one of four that comprise “The Art is a Lie,” described as a thrilling new showcase of short plays that grapples — through the lens of art and its enigmatic allure — with immediate, contemporary issues such as domestic abuse, relationships in a time of technology, capitalism, commercialism, self-doubt and self-destruction.
