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April is Global Volunteer Month, and for Jewish Family Services (JFS), volunteers help the agency fulfill its mission of “repairing the world, one person at a time.”

First Call, a nonprofit geared towards helping those impacted by addiction, has formed a new partnership with the Kansas City chapter of Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing (GRASP), an organization founded by Jewish community members Dawn Owens and Laura Bratt. 

United States Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff will speak in person at Jewish Community Relations Bureau | American Jewish Committee (JCRB|AJC)'s regional summit on combating antisemitism, along with guest speakers and educators from across the country.

For the greater Kansas City Jewish community, everything changed on April 13, 2014, when an antisemitic gunman shot and killed two people at the Jewish Community Campus and another at Village Shalom.

The Center for Global & International Studies and the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Kansas will host the Jews in the Americas Conference, which will explore the diverse experiences of Jews across North and South America.

This year’s annual community-organized Yom HaShoah commemoration has been scheduled for Sunday, May 5, to honor victims of the Holocaust and the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

After months of planning, training and furniture procurement, a cohort of volunteers from Congregation Beth Shalom formed their first ambassador group to welcome a newly-arrived refugee family. 

Two Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy (HBHA) students, Leo Cohen and Caden Field, have secured spots at the Nationals in the United States division of the International Academic Competitions (IAC).

The William Baker Festival Singers & Chamber Orchestra will perform a concert of five masterworks, including William W. Dreyfoos’ “Songs of the Holocaust” and Leonard Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms.”

A group of The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah adult learners spent three days in Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia, in late March on an immersive trip studying slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America.