By Beth Lipoff / Contributing Writer
The new women’s seder hosted by The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah will have a touch of Hollywood, but its bigger theme is all about community.
By Barbara Bayer / Editor
“Paper here.”
That’s a text I get from my father every week telling me he received his Chronicle on time. I’m guessing he’s been a subscriber for 60-plus years.
Rabbi Corey Helfand
A graduate of the Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy is one of 14 influential Jewish leaders who traveled through Guatemala for a week as part of the prestigious Global Justice Fellowship run by American Jewish World Service (AJWS), the leading Jewish organization supporting human rights and efforts to fight poverty in developing countries.
Through the partnership between Yad Vashem and Chabad on Campus, said Rabbi Moshe Cohn, head of the Jewish World section at Yad Vashem, “thousands and thousands of young people will be exposed to Holocaust education with accurate history and proper pedagogy.” (Yad Vashem)
Some 30 campus Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries concluded an eight-day training program at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, learning cutting-edge, relevant and effective tools that will allow them to teach about the Holocaust and the growing problem of Holocaust denial. Equally important was guidance on how to grapple with and counter increasing instances of anti-Semitism on college campuses. The emissaries hailed from campuses in North America, Australia and Austria, including Dartmouth College in New Hampshire; the University of Melbourne in Australia; the Lauder Business School in Vienna; and York University in Toronto.
One flyer reads “Holocaust = fake news.”
Another says “America is not for sale.”
And another: “Diversity destroys nations.”
The Chronicle is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2020 with a commemorative edition this summer. In it we’ll look back at the events that have shaped the Kansas City Jewish community for the past 100 years.
Simcha Gifts is a program of the Chabad House Center and Yachad Food Pantry and serves over 500 Jewish seniors and unaffiliated in the Greater Kansas City area five times a year in honor of each of the major Jewish holidays.
The Lewis and Shirley White Theatre at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City (The J) is excited to announce it has secured the rights to the Broadway smash hit “Something Rotten!” for its 2020-2021 season.
In response to anti-Semitic events and a need for more Holocaust education, Holocaust survivor and Big Sonia star, Sonia Warshawski recently spoke at Indian Hills Middle School in the Shawnee Mission School District. Warshawski posed with 8th grader Abigail Margolin, the daughter of Erin Best and Dan Margolin.
HBHA Jewish studies teacher Michal Cohen led an engaging Tu b’Shevat seder for her fifth-grade class last week to celebrate the birthday of the trees. Here, Cohen is showing students the citrus species as part of their celebration. Also shown with Cohen are fifth-graders Orli Zigler, Travis Niedzwiecki and Yosef Meir Tiechtel.
