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Comeback KC focuses on safer behaviors

Two prominent members of the Kansas City Jewish community are volunteering their communications expertise to help fight the rapid growth of COVID-19 in the metro area. Eric Morgenstern, CEO of Morningstar Communications, and Martha Gershun, author and nonprofit leader, have been helping Comeback KC develop and deliver messaging to keep our community safe during the coronavirus pandemic. Comeback KC urges everyone to comply with public health measures.

By Lacey Storer
Contributing Writer

Few people could have predicted a year as uncertain and unprecedented as 2020. That leaves many of us asking, what’s next? 

By Mike Sherry
Editor

As most congregations can attest, it was hard enough preparing a virtual experience during the High Holidays this year. But try doing it with a temporary spiritual leader who has been on the job for only a matter of weeks.

KU Chabad is rallying around one of its own and his compatriots in the Israel Defense Forces.

Jump online for the next Learn, Laugh and Love program, “Why Go It Alone,” at 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17. This lively interactive session with the Jewish Family Services Older Adult Care Management team and The Jewish Community Center’s Heritage Center Director Sandra Greason will be virtual program via Zoom due to safety and health restrictions.

Each year the local Chabad rabbis from the Kansas City area lead a delegation to the world’s largest rabbinical conference — the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries. This year, with the conference conducted virtually, the local Chabad rabbis joined a virtual Zoom conference, which included workshops and discussions pertaining to the far-reaching work that Chabad does worldwide.