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Every year at Federation's Annual Meeting, I talk about what we've learned, as an organization and as a community. For those of you who weren't able to make it to our recent Virtual Annual Meeting, I'd like to share those lessons with you now. (You can also watch my…
This past week, since the insurrection at the Capitol, has been difficult for me, as for others. There are days I feel scared, forlorn, and confused. Although the past year has been especially trying, somehow this event was harrowing and shook me to my core. The fragility of our democracy wa…
The onset of the pandemic required everyone to quickly shift gears in how they operated, with educators among those having to adapt the quickest, going from regular schooling to the almost entirely unknown world of virtual education practically overnight.
At its virtual annual meeting Wedne…
As Helene Lotman was settling into her role as head of the Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City, he was the one who came to her office on Day One with an orchid and who showed up on her first shabbat in town with housewarming gifts of challah, kosher salt and candles.
Always dapper, kno…
The struggles of the newly poor come in all shapes and sizes: Jewish families turning to Jewish social service agencies for help paying electricity and mortgage bills. Isolated Jewish seniors on fixed incomes who, for the first time in their lives, are facing food insecurity and mental healt…
