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The Kansas City Jewish Film Series (KCJFS) will start its 2025 season with a screening of 2024 Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award Winner “Bad Shabbos.”

Community member Sierra Debrow has been nominated to the young delegation for the Reform Movement at the World Zionist Congress (WZC).

The Goldenberg Duo, consisting of siblings Susan and William Goldenberg, will present a series of free recital performances at the end of March.

Jewish Unforgettable Ladies Interested in Eating Together (JULIETs) will host the staff of The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle for its March event.

Congregants of Beth Shalom gathered on Sunday, March 2, to hear Dr. Ken Abramovitch, professor and chair of the Oral Pathology, Radiology and Medicine Department at UMKC School of Dentistry.

This month, JFS is standing with the Alliance of Period Supplies to work to end period poverty through its “Go with the Flow” period product drive.

For the first time in Olathe’s 168-year history, the city has a resident rabbi. Rabbi Mendel Wenger and his wife, Sheina, arrived in late November on a mission to build a Jewish communal network in a city where no synagogue or Jewish institution previously existed.

A new initiative, Our Giving Kitchen Kansas City, has been founded to merge community service with team building by engaging groups in meal preparation for those in need.

About Jewish 3,500 teens from 50 countries assembled in Denver for BBYO’s International Convention, with 46 of them hailing from Kansas City.

Liz Bamberger will become president of Hadassah Greater Kansas City at the installation of the 2025 local chapter board.