PASSOVER SEDER MEALS — TO-GO — For the first time this year the Rabbinical Association has the genius idea of selling seder meals to go! The kosher-for-Passover “Meal-to-Go” seder food items will be prepared by Kosher Connection under supervision of the Vaad HaKashruth of Kansas City.
Order forms can be found at www.kcrabbis.org, area congregations and the Jewish Community Campus (display rack in front lobby). All prepaid orders must be received by Thursday, March 31. Pay by credit card by logging on to www.kcrabbis.org or send a check (payable to the Rabbinical Association) to: Rabbinical Association, 5801 W. 115th, Box 113, Overland Park, KS 66211.
Food orders must be picked up by Friday, April 22, between noon and 2:30 p.m. at Congregation Beth Shalom, 14200 Lamar (kitchen entrance located on most northern area of parking lot). Items will be packed in containers suitable for warming in the oven and simple and clear heating instructions will be included.
For questions, or to inquire about confidential financial assistance, contact Annette Fish, administrator/program director, Rabbinical Association of Greater KC: or 913-327-4622.
A community second night of Passover Seder will not be offered this year.
This program is sponsored by the Rabbinical Association of Greater Kansas City and the Community Legacy Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City and supported by area congregations.
SUPPORT MATNAT CHAIM — In 2013, Kansas City native Judy Singer, donated a kidney to Rena, a mother of two from Haifa who was suffering from severe kidney disease. Today Rena is enjoying good health, and Singer has never felt better. To celebrate this affirmation of life, Singer, who made aliyah to Israel in 1983 and since 1991 has lived in Kibbutz Merav in the rural north, is running in the Jerusalem Marathon on March 18 with a unique team of kidney donors and kidney recipients (and family and friends) from “Matnat Chaim,” an Israeli non-profit that encourages healthy volunteers to donate kidneys to patients who need a transplant. Singer is actually running a 5K that day, but before she donated her kidney, she said she “couldn’t run even 1K so I’m making progress!” Her daughter Zohar will be running 10K with our team.
Singer said, “Matnat Chaim has so far facilitated an astonishing 270 kidney transplants. The organization has saved 270 lives as well as turning 270 ordinary people into life-savers and giving them an experience which is truly life-changing. Matnat Chaim has also been responsible for completely altering the way Israelis view organ transplants, and turning Israel into a world leader for living organ donation.”
Singer is seeking support for her marathon run. Donations may be made at her fundraising page: http://bit.ly/Judy-marathon. Singer is the daughter of the late Milton and Bea Firestone. Milton was the longtime editor of The Chronicle and Bea, who also worked for the newspaper for many, many years, created this column!