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After a three-year hiatus, the Heritage Center’s annual Open House will be held Wednesday, July 27, from 4 to 6 p.m.

Congregation Beth Torah will welcome Cantor Jacqueline Marx, an acclaimed cantor, columnist, and friend of Rabbi Javier Cattapan, for Shabbat on Aug. 5, 2022, at 6:30 p.m.

Wendy Anderson, longtime child and family therapist with Jewish Family Services, has been chosen as the new coordinator for the YouBeYou program.

Strangers No More held its first program in May of 2014, following the shootings at the Jewish Community Campus and Village Shalom.

Rabbi Moshe Grussgott, Senior Rabbi of Kehilath Israel Synagogue, was recently elected as President of the Rabbinical Association of Greater Kansas City.

Multiple congregations and rabbis are collaborating to facilitate a community-wide Tisha B’Av observance on Aug. 6 and 7. Services will take place at Congregation Beth Shalom and Kehilath Israel Synagogue.

Jewish Family Services’ Priya program will host an online discussion about the future of women’s health from the Jewish perspective at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 20.

This month, Jewish Family Services, in partnership with the Rabbinical Association of Greater Kansas City, will hold its contactless community food drive on Sunday, July 17, from 10 a.m. to noon in the front circle drive of the Jewish Community Campus, 5801 W. 115th St. in Overland Park. 

In a historic move for Conservative Judaism in Kansas City, Congregation Beth Shalom and Congregation Ohev Sholom officially merged on July 1.

The Greater Kansas City Jewish Community Study – the first comprehensive population and demographic study of the local Jewish community in more than 35 years – provides a lot of data and key insights about our Jewish community. Now, the plans to act on the new information are being formulated.