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Barbara Bloch, a native Kansas Citian and Jewish community member, has been hired as Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City’s major gifts officer. She began in this newly-created role on June 1.

Multiple Jewish Kansas Citians were unexpectedly grounded in Israel during the outbreak of the war with Iran.

The Jewish Community Foundation’s Community Legacy Fund has awarded $117,045 in innovative and emergency grants to communal organizations.

Three Jewish Kansas City-area weightlifters, Samantha Goodman, Aiden Luther and Zachary Lerner, had been preparing to represent Team USA at the 2025 Maccabiah Games in Israel when the competition was postponed.

The spiritual care volunteers (SCV), part of the Jewish Community Chaplaincy program at Jewish Family Services (JFS), visit others at their most vulnerable moments, including during challenging health situations (including hospital visits), fulfilling the mitzvah of bikkur holim.

Broadway classic “West Side Story” begins its run at The Lewis & Shirley White Theatre at The J on Saturday, July 5.

Jewish Family Services offers Transparentcy, a peer-led support group for Jewish families with trans or nonbinary children of any age.

All Jewish women are invited to attend the next Jewish Unforgettable Ladies Interested in Eating Together (JULIETs) event, which will feature a presentation about Pawsperity, a Kansas City nonprofit with the goal of helping struggling parents break the cycle of intergenerational poverty by teaching pet grooming skills.

Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City has launched the Israel in Crisis: Recover and Rebuild Fund in the wake of the Iranian missile attacks on Israel that caused dozens of deaths, thousands of injuries and significant destruction of property.

The Jewish Community Foundation’s Jewish Leadership Education Action and Development (J-LEAD) program, a giving circle for adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s, recently completed its 2025 grant cycle, in which members collectively granted $24,112 to six important community programs.