Meryl FeldSteve Rose, owner and publisher of The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, has announced that longtime Editor Barbara Bayer is retiring and Meryl Feld has been chosen as the weekly newspaper’s new editor.“Although we will certainly miss Barbara Bayer, we are very excited about Meryl taking the leading role as editor of The Chronicle,” Rose said. “Meryl is already a fountain of new ideas and brings great enthusiasm to her new role. Readers can soon look forward to expanded local news coverage, new features and a redesign of the newspaper. In addition, Meryl brings with her a vision of expanding The Chronicle’s digital footprint in the community.”
Each of the three floors in Village Shalom’s new Household Model memory care facility consists of a household with up to 16 residents. A residential kitchen and dining area can be found in each household.Residents and their families can enjoy living areas such as these in each household.Village Shalom officially opened its new state-of-the-art Household Model memory care facility on the Continuing Care Retirement Community’s south-Overland Park campus on Jan. 13. Village Shalom’s memory care building is the first completed part of the retirement community’s major campus expansion.
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A large crowd, including those shown in this photo, enjoyed KU Hillel’s Rock Chalk Shabbat in the fall of 2018.Rock Chalk Shabbat marks 18 years on Friday, Feb. 7. KU Hillel started this Shabbat dinner as a way to gather the most Jewish students together. Over the years the event has turned into a way to celebrate the strong Jewish community at the University of Kansas, including students, alumni and family.
One of Sporting Kansas City’s newest player is Gadi Kinda, an Ethiopian Israeli who most recently played for Beitar Jerusalem Football Club. (Olivia Brestal, Sporting KC)Sporting Kansas City announced last week that the soccer club has acquired 25-year-old central midfielder Gadi Kinda (pronounced GAH-dee KINN-dah) on a one-year loan from Beitar Jerusalem of the Israeli Premier League. He arrives in Kansas City after starring as one of the Israeli Premier League’s best players during the first half of the 2019-20 season.
A night that ended on a sour note for the KU men’s basketball team began sweetly for members of the Jewish community who were able to take part in a Ma’ariv evening service led by KU Chabad’s Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel (center). He’s conducting the service from an app on his phone outside of the Fieldhouse Kosher Deli, sponsored by KU Chabad. Among those participating in what many think is a first for the historic basketball arena were Nathan Diamond (far left) and Gary Friedman (sporting a Mahomes headband).Holocaust survivor Judy Jacobs was interviewed by KSHB TV.GO CHIEFS — Chiefs fans at The Chronicle want to wish the Chiefs, and especially No. 71 Mitchell Schwartz, good luck in the upcoming big game. Known as Mendel, his Hebrew name, by Chabad Rabbi Mendy Wineberg, the eight-year veteran has spent the past four seasons as a member of the Chiefs offensive line. A knee injury in the first half of a November game versus the Tennessee Titans snapped the 6-foot-5-inch, 320 pound tackle’s streak of playing 7,894 consecutive snaps, the most by any active player in the league. We’ve enjoyed watching his success on the gridiron as well as lighting Chabad’s huge Chanukiah and speak at The J. Our thoughts, and maybe a few prayers, will be with Schwartz and the rest of the team Sunday in Miami!NEVER AGAIN — “I shall never forget, I shall never forgive, but I will never hate,” is one of the many quotes you’ll hear from Sonia Warshawski if you watch two news stories featuring her, as well as Judy Jacobs on KSHB 41 Action news in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.“We lived in absolute squalor,” recalled Jacobs, who is a child survivor of Bergen-Belsen. To hear comments from Jacobs and Warshawski, as well as JCRB|AJC’s Gavriela Geller, go to kshb.com and search ‘A poison’: Kansas City Holocaust survivors warn anti-Semitism is spreading. KSHB also featured Warshawski, known to many as Big Sonia, with this story, 75 years after Auschwitz liberation, Holocaust survivor ‘cannot keep quiet.’ ” Both stories are by anchor Lindsey Shively.FIFTY YEARS OF CHIEFS MEMORABILIA — As excitement grows for the Kansas City Chiefs first Super Bowl appearance in 50 years, two TV stations featured Michael’s Fine Clothing for Men and its third-generation owner Keith Novorr. Fifty years ago, when the team was hot, Michael’s and the Stetson hat company gifted all the players and coaches hats. In interviews with KSHB’s Gabriella Pagan and KMBC’s Brian Johnson, Novorr shared with viewers a treasure trove of memorabilia from that time in history. To see these stories, visit kshb.com and search for Michael’s Fine Clothing in Crossroads opens Chiefs history vault and kmbc.com and for Main Street clothing store with Chiefs connection recalls 1970 win.
Norman and Doris Levitz made aliyah in their 90s, moving from the United States to Jerusalem. (Tomer Malichi)JERUSALEM — For a growing number of Jews in the Diaspora, turning retirement dreams into reality also means realizing a lifelong dream of living in Israel.Over the past decade, more than 6,000 Jews from North America and Britain have retired to Israel. In 2019, some 500 of 3,500 immigrants to Israel from North America were retirees. For some of these new “olim” it was the culmination of a lifelong Zionist dream. For others it was a practical move to be closer to children and grandchildren, or to enjoy their golden years in a warmer climate.
Ethan Scharf (pink shirt, beard) engages with some of his students along with the Ukrainian English teacher he shares classrooms with.What does it take to leave home and spend two years in the Peace Corps working in a foreign country — courage, a sense of adventure, curiosity, intelligence? One would imagine all of these things and more.Ethan Scharf, 24, is in the middle of his two-year term teaching English at a village school in Ukraine, while also helping to educate teachers on better methods of classroom management, promoting critical thinking, improving lesson plans and promoting academic integrity.
The Chronicle is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2020 with a commemorative edition this summer. We’ll look back at the events that have shaped the Kansas City Jewish community for the past 100 years.
We are searching for photos from 1920 through the present that will help tell those stories. Please send any vintage photos you have from that time period that would be of interest to the Kansas City Jewish Community and provide us with a one sentence description of each photo, including the approximate year if possible. If it is a small group, we will also identify the people in the photo.
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Jewish Federation’s leadership team includes Jonathan Schwartzbard (from left), Mary Stratman, Andi Milens, Dr. Helene Lotman, Mimsy Tallent and Derek Gale.Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City recently welcomed two new directors, Jonathan Schwartzbard and Mimsy Tallent, to its staff and has announced the promotion of Derek Gale to vice president and chief operating officer.“With the combination of Jonathan’s success in sales, Mimsy’s leadership in strategic marketing and Derek’s commitment to building our community, Jewish Federation is poised for even more exciting advances ahead,” said Dr. Helene Lotman, Federation president and CEO. “We are looking forward to an incredible year in 2020, full of many new and exciting opportunities and initiatives.”
