More than one hundred Jewish Community Foundation (JCF) fundholders and supporters gathered for JCF’s 64th annual meeting and installation of officers and trustees on the evening of Dec. 13.
In its continuing effort to serve families, Jewish Family Services (JFS), in partnership with Sasone, is presenting “Nurturing Parenting: Growing loving, happy and thriving relationships.”
A tumultuous year for world Jewry, 2023 brought the Kansas City Jewish community significant struggles but also examples of unity, support and achievement.
Antisemitic comments on a Hanukkah post by a local library spurred a response of unity and pride among Jewish community preschools.
When a woman with limited resources who is not Jewish gave Pella Fingersh an envelope with $150 to support Israel — money that the woman’s children helped earn for their family — it brought Fingersh to tears.
Jewish Family Services (JFS) is launching a new grief therapy group for Jews in the Kansas City area.
More than 300 Jewish individuals and families were able to receive Hanukkah gifts because of Jewish Family Services’ (JFS) 2023 Hanukkah Project.
Community members Karen Gerson and her son Gilli are traveling on a volunteer trip to Israel to help its agricultural sector from Dec. 14 to 25. The trip, organized by Israel Food Rescue, is one of many taking volunteers to Israel to help prevent a food shortage.
Local Catholic school St. Teresa’s Academy hosted volunteer teen actors from the local Jewish community who performed a staged reading of “Thank You For Meeting Me Here,” a short play about a student’s experience with antisemitism in school.
Several high school students in the community recently took part in a teen mental health first aid training put on by KCteen and Jewish Family Services (JFS).