The number 10 has more than its normal significance for the Downtown Minyan these days. It takes a minimum of 10 adult Jews to make a minyan, and this year marks the 10th anniversary a group of 10 has gathered downtown to pray every Monday through Thursday afternoon.
SCHWARTZ BROTHERS CHEER ON ROYALS IN KC — Last week there was no shortage of Jewish baseball fans in the stands at Kauffman Stadium for the American League Championship Series and no doubt that will be the case this week for the World Series games.
Doctors from all over the country read the Oct. 2 article about "The Syndrome," the documentary that premiered last weekend challenging the validity of shaken baby syndrome, written and produced by Meryl Goldsmith and Susan Goldsmith.
POSSIBLE DATE CHANGE —Jean Zeldin tells me that for several reasons — including a potential home game for the World Series — MCHE is considering a change of time or date for "The Trial of the Propagandists," the final program in the Wednesday Evening Speaker Series for State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda, scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct. 22 at the National World War I Museum.
Over the years KU Hillel has established itself as one of the best Hillels in the country and has helped the University of Kansas earn a reputation as a destination school for Jewish students from around the country.
A new play at the Unicorn Theatre is promising to have a lot of chutzpah this fall.
When Karen Pack was 7 years old, she remembers watching her grandmother pack clothing, sugar, chocolate and coffee for relatives who had left Europe for the fledging State of Israel.
Terry Levine knows bras.
She is co-owner of clair de lune, the lingerie boutique known for its wide variety of luxurious lingerie she established in Hawthorne Plaza in 2004.
CHEERING ON THE ROYALS FROM ISRAEL —Yoni (age 25) and Naftali Schwartz (27), lived in Kansas City from 1991-2000 when their father Rabbi Morey Schwartz was the rabbi at Congregation BIAV.
While most of the Jews in our community live on the Kansas side of the state line, there are still plenty of Jews — about 59,000 according to estimates — who live in Missouri.
