Have you planned your menu for Shabbat/Sukkot dinner? Erev Sukkot begins at sundown Friday, Oct. 2. Skip the meal preparation and enjoy a delicious catered meal in your sukkah. This holiday meal will be prepared by Cathy Levin, Kosher Connection. Deadline for ordering your Shabbat/Sukkot meal is Tuesday, Sept. 29. Curbside pickup is from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2.
KU Hillel’s Rock Chalk Shabbat is now coast-to-coast. For the 19th year of Rock Chalk Shabbat, the largest Shabbat experience at KU, KU Hillel has innovated to a completely virtual event. The best part? You can enjoy the fun of Rock Chalk Shabbat from the comfort of your living room.
It’s been a tough summer for area kids with so many restrictions due to the pandemic, but five members of the Jewish Boy Scout Troop 61 decided to make the best of it — and indeed, they did.
Union Station, MCHE partner to host international exhibition in K.C.
Union Station will host one of the most comprehensive Holocaust exhibitions about Auschwitz ever exhibited in North America, “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.” The exhibition is being brought to Kansas City in partnership with the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education (MCHE) and will open in June 2021. MCHE will host a series of public and educational programming that will feature experts on the Holocaust and be available through the exhibition.
By Jane Martin
Special to The Chronicle
Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy is off to a great start for the school year, using its cyclical learning model. In their first week back at school, all HBHA students, K-12, engaged in virtual-only learning, followed by a week of in-person learning during Labor Day week. This week they are back in their virtual classrooms, and, if Johnson County COVID numbers remain steady, the plan is to continue alternating in-person and virtual weeks for the foreseeable future.
