The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education (MCHE) will present a “Pop Up at the Monument” event about the Memorial to the Six Million from 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, at the Jewish Community Campus.
Israeli activist Marva Zohar is on a journey fueled by “unstoppable conviction.” With Kansas City being among her most recent stops along the way, she hopes such passion will resonate as much here as it has across Israel and other parts of the world.
When Ethan Corson was a child growing up in Overland Park, baseball was his passion. George Brett was his hero.
In the 1960s, Rabbi Morris Margolies, of blessed memory, gave a series of lectures for an adult education program. They were so well received, they were published in a pamphlet titled “Ten Turning Points in Jewish History.”
Although the title of Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg’s latest book “Miriam’s Well: A Modern Day Exodus,” nods at the Bible, this novel’s contemporary protagonist is at most a very loose interpretation of her ancient namesake. The modern Miriam’s journey to self-discovery is as much or more formed by her experience of a mid-20th-century landscape of tumultuous change and unrest, as it is by spiritual or cultural Judaism.
Festival set for April 28-May 12 thrillers, documentaries, dramas and more
Those planning to attend Kansas City’s 2018 Jewish Film Festival (KCJFF) are in for a real treat.
‘THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK’ — When the Culture House Stage and Studio presents “The Diary of Anne Frank” beginning next week, its only Jewish cast member, Emma Jacobson, will play Miep Gies, the non-Jewish character responsible for helping the Franks hide from the Nazis. Emma is an eighth-grade student at Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy.
Although a mikvah needs living water, the floods that hit Mikvah Chana last summer weren’t spiritual — they were destructive. The mikvah, located at Chabad House, continues to function, but it needs some serious repairs to fix walls, destroyed cabinets and more.
