Community News

KU Chabad, in partnership with Chabad YoungKC, a project of Chabad on the Plaza, hosted a “Mega Purim Party” for young Jewish professionals in Kansas City.

The Jewish Community Foundation’s (JCF) Jewish Leadership, Education, Action and Development (J-LEAD) program has a new co-chair, Thaddeus Diamond.

After 14 years as the pulpit rabbi of The New Reform Temple (NRT), Rabbi Alan Londy will retire at the end of June and become the synagogue’s first rabbi emeritus.

The annual State of Kansas Holocaust Commemoration, an official state observance to memorialize the victims of the Holocaust, will be held next month in Topeka, Kansas.

Jewish Family Services (JFS) is offering a Pre-Passover Communitywide Service of Spiritual Renewal on Sunday, March 30, at 3 p.m. at the Social Hall of Village Shalom (5500 W. 123rd St., Overland Park, KS 66209).

Dr. Shelly Cline, the director of education and historian at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education (MCHE), is celebrating a decade of service to the organization.

Jewish Federation will host its Men's Night Out event at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, April 7, at The College Basketball Experience in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.

The Jewish Community Foundation (JCF) will hold its annual youth philanthropy fair, the B’nai Tzedek Shuk, to introduce teenagers to tzedakah by inviting them to establish their own personal charitable giving accounts at the Foundation.

“The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time” opens its run at The Lewis & Shirley White Theatre at The J on Saturday, March 15, running for 10 performances through Sunday, March 30.

Olive Tree in Overland Park, Kansas, will welcome Jewish baker Michael Crane for a Passover dessert class.