YOUNG NETANYAHU — A couple of Kansas City camp counselors and siblings, Daniel Siegel and Andrew Siegel, spent the summer with Avner Netanyahu, son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at Camp Young Judaea Midwest in central Wisconsin. Avner, who is a Tsofim, (Israeli Scout,) was assigned to the camp. Andrew Siegel said he didn’t know the young Netanyahu, or his guards, would be there for the summer until he got there, but said it was a blast spending the summer with him. “He was great. He’s actually quite wise for a 17-year-old,” said Andrew, who is a 20-year-old junior at KU and the son of Lisa and Steve Siegel. Camp Director Noah Gallagher, in a email sent to supporters after the camp session, said when he first heard the young Netanyahu would spend the summer at CYJ Midwest, he worried accommodating such a high-profile staff member would inhibit the camp’s ability to create the sense of family that makes CYJ so special, but that was not the case. In fact, Gallagher believes that sense of family is exactly the reason Avner was assigned to CYJ. We’re told at least four other campers and counselors at CYJ Midwest this summer had Kansas City ties as well.

FUN WITH HUMANS — Members of the Jewish Community Center staff, including President & CEO Jacob Schreiber, form a human ‘JCC KC’ that was used for an internal video for the JCC’s first-ever All Employee Meeting, held in late September. It was the first time in the organization’s 98-year history that all full- and part-time staff members were invited to participate. Two hundred individuals attended the informational and motivational gathering.

CANCELLATIONS — The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum program, “Refuge Denied: The Voyage of The St. Louis,” featuring Scott Miller, director of Curatorial Affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 14, at Kehilath Israel Synagogue has been postponed.

In addition, the discussion Miller planned to lead following the 2 p.m. showing of “The Rescuers” at the Kansas City Jewish Film Festival Sunday afternoon has also been cancelled.

For more information on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and its 20th Anniversary, visit http://neveragain.ushmm.org or contact Jed Silberg in the Museum’s Midwest Regional Office at 847-433-8099 or .

Corrections

A critical word was left out of an article featuring Bret Stephens, the featured speaker at the AIPAC Israel Action Forum from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21, at The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah. The correct statement is: “This is NOT ‘yelling fire in a theater,’ this is an inevitable happening in a free society where you have 314 million Americans expressing their views in a non-stop cacophony.”

Several names were omitted from the Sept. 27 article about AIPAC’s team of volunteers: Rabbi Binyomin and Gevura Davis, liaisons to the KC Kollel, and Melanie Allmayer, synagogue ambassador to Congregation Ohev Sholom.

In the same article, the rank of Kansas City native Jason Barnett, a non-commissioned officer in the IDF, was reported incorrectly. He has attained the rank of first sergeant.