Congregation Beth Shalom will be hosting a cantorial concert, Shir Joy 5786, on Tuesday, May 5. Led by Hazzan Tahl Ben-Yehuda, Shir Joy will be an evening of Broadway music featuring appearances from ...

Jewish Experiences, a collaboration of Jewish Federation and The J, is partnering with local community organizations to coordinate a number of events commemorating Yom HaZikaron (Israel’s Memorial Day ...

The 86th annual Matzo Ball Dance will return on Saturday, April 18, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of BBYO’s Nordaunian AZA #22.

Theodore (Teddy) Gene Dieker, son of Alyson and Joseph Dieker of Overland Park, Kansas, was born March 6. Teddy has two older brothers, Tommy and Louie. He is the grandson of Jody (Gottlieb) and ...

Former Overland Park Deputy Chief of Police Simon Happer is now the Kansas City Jewish community’s security chief.

Community member Edith Shaw will celebrate her 101st birthday on April 21. “I was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, and in 1950, I visited my brother who lived in Kansas City,” she said. “[There] I met ...

On Sunday, April 19, the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation (LJCC) will bring a little bit of Yiddish culture to northeast Kansas. The doors of the Lawrence Art Center’s 10th & Mass Studios will ...

The Jewish Community Foundation (JCF) has hired Kara Kahn Bush as director of its new Bushman Legacy Initiative, a renewed community-wide effort to strengthen and sustain the Jewish community through ...

Kehilath Israel Synagogue (K.I.) will host a screening of the 2025 film “Nuremberg” for Yom HaShoah. The event, to be held on Tuesday, April 14, at 6:45 p.m., is open to the community and will be at K ...

Hadassah Greater Kansas City will host an educational program with Dr. Michael Sokol to teach about the prevention and treatment of diabetes. “A Path to Better Health: Diabetes Prevention and ...

Gov. Laura Kelly’s final Kansas Holocaust Commemoration as governor will include her presenting the Kansas Proclamation for the Days of Remembrance, which includes the following: “...the people of the ...

“It’s literally one by one,” Freiden said. “That’s how you build a community.” ...