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Paul Silbersher, beloved rabbi/cantor and spiritual leader of Jewish life in Kansas City for over 40 years, died April 26, 2020, just as covid had shut down life as we knew it.

Politics was supposed to be a very brief interlude in Rashela Mizrahi’s career as a scientist.

(Israel Hayom via JNS) For the first time since World War I, the German military is set to appoint a chief rabbi.

Congregation Beth Torah and Rabbi Monica Kleinman, director of lifelong learning, are proud to announce a series of playground dates for those who are currently enrolled or interested in joining the Weiner Religious School. The Weiner Religious School is open to all KC-area Jewish families regardless of their membership at CBT.

The White Rose Student Research contest, sponsored annually by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, is open to students in grades eight through 12.

 Elliot Resnick, the editor of a politically conservative Jewish newspaper who was identified among the crowd that breached the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, is out of the job.

On his way home for a surprise visit to see family and friends, Jewish journalist Danny Fenster was detained last week in Myanmar, where he works for a news site in the country’s largest city of Yangon.

As reports of attacks on Jews broke into the news late last month, Democratic lawmakers moved quickly to condemn antisemitism — but they didn’t stop there.

The Israel Defense Forces are seeking to fast-track a new system designed to remove Hamas’s ability to terrorize the Israeli home front with mass rocket attacks in future conflicts.

(JNS) During a meeting in Jerusalem on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visiting U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) described the country as “the eyes and ears of America,” and said that “nobody does more to protect America from radical Islam than our friends in Israel.”