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A delegation of 28 local Jewish teen athletes recently returned from Houston, Texas, after competing at the 2024 JCC Maccabi Games, and 22 of them medaled across multiple sports.

Kehilath Israel Synagogue has announced that Shelley Palmarine will join as the synagogue’s new executive director.

It has been 130 years since a small band of women chartered the National Council of Jewish Women of Greater Kansas City Section (NCJW).

The Jewish Community Chaplaincy Program, housed at Jewish Family Services (JFS), will offer its Service of Spiritual Renewal on Sunday, Sept. 15, at 3 p.m. in the social hall at Village Shalom.

Dr. David Katzman, professor emeritus of American and Jewish studies at the University of Kansas, will lead a tour of Beni Israel Cemetery, the only Jewish cemetery in Eudora, Kansas.

Simcha Gifts, a program of the Chabad House Center of Kansas City, prepares and delivers holiday packages to a variety of people within the Jewish community, including seniors living in facilities and their own homes.

GRASP (Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing) was formed to help those who have lost loved ones to addiction or substance abuse grapple with the loss and the stigma that is often associated with it.

Ten of Kansas City’s top area high school singers compete for the title of KC SuperStar 2023 at the event’s finals on Sunday, Aug. 25 at 7 p.m. in Yardley Hall at Johnson County Community College.  

The New Reform Temple’s Torah Tots, a program for children ages 1 to 4-and-a-half and their parents, is offered free of charge to the entire Jewish community.

Torah Learning Center (TLC) and Gather KC will host artistic events led by guest artist Chani Friedman of The Paintery in Los Angeles.