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Kansas City is considering putting a massive 2,000-acre solar farm on city land at Kansas City International Airport, creating one of the largest solar power installations in the nation.

The Learn, Laugh and Love program will feature a one-hour online tour of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art at 1 p.m. on November 18.

Hanukkah begins Sunday night, November 28, and Jewish Family Services will provide gift cards for essentials for 300 families in Kansas City through its annual Holiday Project.

Show off your creative and artistic abilities in the 25th annual Chanukah Art Contest. Create a piece of artwork that relates to Chanukah and Jewish Pride, then submit a one-minute video describing the materials used in the piece of artwork and how your art piece relates to Chanukah and Jewish Pride.

Two Jewish candidates came up winners following Tuesday's Johnson County elections (according to unofficial results), with Sollie Flora besting Arcie Rothrock to be the next mayor of Mission, Kansas, and Joy Koesten gaining 13.56% of the vote, enough to be elected to one of four at-large seats on the Johnson County Community College Board of Trustees. 

More than 230 members of the Kansas City Jewish community — mostly teen religious school students and their families — attended the Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. exhibit at Union Station last week.

Gathered together in Jewish Federation Board Member Josef Loeffler’s living room, KU Hillel students and their friends sat down to discuss what they had just seen. The Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. exhibit at Union Station made a huge impression on each of them.

Medicare re-enrollment is underway, and Jewish Family Services is offering free consultations to help individuals sort through options and save money from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., now until Dec. 7.

Two sessions remain in Jewish Family Services Virtual Speaker Series, each exploring critical challenges Kansas Citians face and how the agency is responding to them.

It’s no doubt that the legacy of local Holocaust survivor Sonia Warshawski, known as “Big Sonia” and star of the award-winning documentary with the same name, will live on in Kansas City. Now, thanks to the wonders of technology, her story will live on everywhere.