With a global pandemic now entering its second year, Jewish Family Services continues to help during these challenging times, serving more than 10,000 Kansas Citians annually.
The Michael Klein Collection at The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah will take art and history lovers behind the scenes with an inside look at the congregation’s newest installation: memory murals that surround the building’s new commons area.
The Jewish community will prepare for the approaching High Holy Days at the annual Selichot program and service on August 28, hosted at Congregation Beth Torah. There will be opportunities for multi-access participation, both in person and virtual. There will be Havdalah and then the program will begin at 9:00 p.m.
There is so much information about COVID-19 vaccinations, imagine trying to discern it all when English is not your native language.
The High Holy Days are approaching and now is the time to think about ordering your meals.
It’s a new school year, which calls for plenty of new over at KU Hillel.
Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia, with approximately 5.8 million Americans living with this disease. That number is projected to nearly triple to 14 million people by 2060, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
(JNS) Longtime Jewish communal leaders Avi and Becky Katz have established a multi-year, multi-million national initiative with NCSY, the flagship youth movement of the Orthodox Union, to support Jewish identity programs for public-school teenagers.
Organizers of a project to digitize the Kansas City Jewish community’s history and create a searchable website for the information have raised more than $50,000 to fund the project and are making progress on building the website.
Hilary Cohen Singer joined Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) in 2010 and has been executive director since 2014. She has over 20 years’ experience in nonprofit leadership, program development and strategic planning. Prior to joining JVS, Singer was a planning executive at UJA-Federation of New York, working to support community-building efforts in the Russian Jewish Community. She was also assistant director of the New York Chapter of American Jewish Committee, developing programs on shared public policy concerns between the Jewish community and other ethnic and religious groups.
