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JCRB|AJC joins Jewish communities across the nation in expressing our grief over the tragic death of George Floyd, who was murdered in broad daylight by police in Minneapolis. This death is yet another in a disturbingly long list of similar incidents and inexcusable injustices that have been perpetrated against African Americans across the United States. We stand in solidarity with the African American community, and call on people of all races, ethnic backgrounds and faiths to speak up now against the systemic racism that is a long-standing stain on our country, for which we all share responsibility.

We the members of the Rabbinical Association of Greater Kansas City express both outrage and sadness at the death of George Floyd.  We offer our condolences to the family, and our support to  the struggle of Black people in America against the plague of rampant injustice that infects our society and the centuries long legacy of racism that corrodes our culture and our humanity.

Jamie Metzl and Rita Blitt at the opening of the Rita Blitt Gallery and Sculpture Garden in Nov. 2017, Mulvane Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas. (Doug Stremel)

By Meryl Feld / Editor

A last-minute change led to global social movement OneShared.World. On March 17, Kansas City native Jamie Metzl was set to give a talk on how the genetics revolution could be used to fight the pandemic. That morning he decided to talk about something he felt was much more important — why the world was not prepared for this pandemic.

Sondra Wallace (left) and Molly McGurk participated in a recent 2019 pre-pandemic Blue Valley School District Be Well event. (Courtesy JFS)

By Meryl Feld / Editor

“Mental Health Awareness Month should actually be throughout the year, but I’m glad that they highlight it in May,” Molly McGurk, LCSW, LSCSW, the director of mental health services at Jewish Family Services said, “It’s a way to educate the community and focus it into one month. But I really think that due to COVID mental health awareness is going to continue to really be an important need for our society because no one is escaping this — COVID — and it’s impacting all of us on many different levels.”

Send us your good news. Have you seen people going out of their way to help others? We want to feature the good in our community coming out of COVID-19.

KC SuperStar semifinalists recently participated in a Zoom coaching session in preparation for their online performances. Pictured is Kloe Wagner.

COVID-19 may have cancelled many events, but it hasn’t stopped Kansas City’s premiere high school singing competition and the Jewish Community Center’s (The J) Annual fundraiser KC SuperStar — it’s going virtual!

The Missouri Capitol building. (Wikimedia Commons)

The legislation would prohibit the state and its political subdivisions from entering into contracts worth more than $100,000 with companies with 10 or more employees that engage in BDS.

(JNS) The Missouri state legislature passed a bill on May 14 to prohibit the state contracting with companies that boycott Israel.

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