“It’s going to change everything.”
That, in short, is the impact Electronic Medical Records (EMR) will have at Village Shalom, according to Renée Schoonover, director of nursing. In fact, that change is already here.
She bounds off the chair to answer the telephone. She drives, sews, exercises, reads and, oh yes, she’s 104 years old.
Hazon’s mobile educational spectacle, the Topsy Turvey Bus, is traveling from Denver to Connecticut while teaching communities how to rethink cycles of food, energy and time. The Topsy Turvy Bus will be in the Kansas City area Sunday and Monday July 6 –7. Community members can see it along the route of the Tour de Farm bike ride (See below for details.) Join the ride or come meet the educators and see the bus at one of the rest stops!
STEVE STRAS RECEIVES BUCK O’NEIL LEGACY AWARD — On June 24, Ohev Sholom congregant Steve Stras was awarded the Buck O’Neil Legacy Award by the Kansas City Royals. The honor is designed to remember the impact of Buck O’Neil and to honor those who are vital to our community.
Have you ever stopped to think just how often we use clean, running water? It’s not something Maggie Fried thought much about until she accepted a position in the JDC Entwine Global Jewish Service Corps.
SHOWING TONIGHT ONLY — The documentary “Finding Hillywood,” is showing at 7:30 p.m. tonight only, Thursday, June 26, at the Glenwood Arts Theater at Metcalf South Shopping Center. The award-winning documentary was produced and directed by Leah
Out in the open air. That’s how members of Kehilath Israel Synagogue and Temple Israel plan to welcome Shabbat three times this summer. The first will take place next Friday night, June 27.
Local fans of Hadassah Magazine will see a familiar face when they thumb through the current issue. Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn and his Brit Braja Worldwide Jewish Outreach are featured in the summer edition of the international magazine.
In addition to being called Chag Matan Torah — festival of receiving the Torah — Shavuot is also known as Z’man HaBikkurim, the time of the first fruits. So to the Yeshiva University interns here in Kansas City this month, it seemed fitting to take their “Lox & Learn” Sunday breakfast program on the road to the Mitzvah Garden KC, located on the grounds of The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah.
“Margot,” by Jillian Cantor, New York: Riverhead Books, 2014
Ever since the publication of her diary, Anne Frank has become in many ways the iconic image of the Holocaust. We can speak of the 6 million (not to mention the many others whose lives were scarred by the events of that period), but 6 million is still a number. Anne Frank and the others who shared her family’s makeshift attic apartment put a human face on the Nazi reign
