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Shari Baellow, Karen Berger and Allen Lebovitz (both of Kansas) and George Lebovitz (of Jerusalem) are the children of Kate (z”l) and Eugene Lebovitz (z”l), Holocaust survivors who met in the Budapest Ghetto.

The recent holiday of Shavuot is one of our Shalosh Regalim - our three pilgrimage festivals, celebrating both agricultural and historical events. During these festivals we express gratitude for our abundance.

“Baby boomers changed this country, and we certainly will change how we age.” I will never forget when Andrea, my social work mentor at a hospice I volunteered with in high school, told me this — while laughing — with a very brash New York accent.

The massacre of the innocents in Uvalde, Texas, has, very understandably, produced a shockwave of anger and a torrent of demands to “do something” — most especially to pass new and stricter gun control laws.

Eleventh and 12th grade students typically travel to Poland and Israel as a part of HBHA’s bi-annual Jewish Heritage Trip, a 17-day experience of learning about the history of Eastern-European Jewry and experiencing modern-day Israel.

This year has flown by. Summer is almost here and B’nai Jehudah’s Shabbat in the Park is back.

This editorial is in response to “Jewish groups react strongly against SCOTUS leak to overturn Roe v. Wade,” a JNS article by Dmitriy Shapiro that The Chronicle ran on page 11 on May 12, 2022. 

May is Older Americans Month but at Jewish Family Services (JFS), every day is about older adults and helping them live full and active lives.

Judaic history repeatedly proves that freedom is not free.

A group of people in their 30s and 40s went to Israel this past week as part of Jewish Federations of North America's National Young Leadership Cabinet, affectionately termed Cabinet.