Temple News
Passover Food Drive
Hunger never takes a holiday. As we approach the season of Passover, there will be hundreds among us who will struggle to put food on the table let alone those special items to celebrate a Seder.
YOU can help make a difference. Join Jewish Family Services, The Rabbinical Association of Greater Kansas City and area congregations in collecting Passover food items. More than 160 families will be helped through your participation in the Passover food drive.
Our congregation has chosen to collect donations of cake meal and grape juice; packaged items should be labeled “kosher for Passover”. Drop off items in our Temple’s lobby through the end of March. Monetary donations are also accepted. Donation envelopes are located on the food barrel or make an online donation through the JFS site: www.jfskc.org. Funds are used to purchase food items to include in the holiday food packages.
By participating in the Passover Food Drive you are putting into action the traditional words of the Haggadah, “let all who are hungry come and eat.”
There are a variety of volunteer opportunities available in connection with the Passover Holiday Food Drive. If you or someone you know wants to volunteer, please call (913) 730-1410 or email volunteer@jfskc.org.
Reel Judaism Film Series
The New Reform Temple launches the seventh season of its monthly film series for adults which brings to our community cutting edge, award winning films that will explore the Modern Jewish Experience.
Join us for a screening of:
Jesus Camp
Thursday, February 28 at 7:00 pm
Theater at the Sulgrave Regency, 200 West 49th Street Kansas City, MO
RSVP to the Temple office at: 816-523-7809 or info@thenewreformtemple.com. Reservations are required – SPACE IS LIMITED!
Jesus Camp follows Levi, Rachel, and Tory to Pastor Becky Fischer’s “Kids on Fire” summer camp in Devil’s Lake, North Dakota, where kids as young as 6 years-old are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in “God’s army.” The film follows these children at camp as they hone their “prophetic gifts” and are schooled in how to “take back America for Christ.”
This film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2007 Oscars.
NRT Book Club
The book is Rabbis and Wives by Chaim Grade.
Rabbis and Wives is three novellas by an internationally celebrated Yiddish writer (1910-1982) that provide a luminous view of a Jewish village in Lithuania between the two world wars and some of its residents. Chaim Grade ranks among the most important Yiddish writers of the post-Holocaust period. His unsentimental depictions of rabbinic high culture and life on the Jewish streets of Vilna both describe memorable characters drawn from different strata of society and dramatize the contest of ideas and moral impulses that defined his community in the interwar period.
Meet with other congregants for an evening of thought-provoking conversation, friendship and fun to discuss the book.
Space is limited. Please RSVP to the Temple office. If you have any questions, you may contact the office at 816-523-7809.
Reel Judaism Film Series
The New Reform Temple launches the seventh season of its monthly film series for adults which brings to our community cutting edge, award winning films that will explore the Modern Jewish Experience.
Join us for a screening of:
Keep Quiet
Thursday, January 24 at 7:00 pm
Theater at the Sulgrave Regency, 200 West 49th Street Kansas City, MO
RSVP to the Temple office at: 816-523-7809 or NRT7100@aol.com. Reservations are required – SPACE IS LIMITED!
This documentary is the remarkable story of Csanad Szegedi. As the vice-president of Jobbik, Hungary’s far-right extremist party, Szegedi regularly espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denials. He was a founder of the Hungarian Guard, a now-banned militia inspired by the Arrow Cross, a pro-Nazi party complicit in the murder of thousands of Jews during WWII. Then came a revelation which upended his life: Szegedi’s maternal grandparents were revealed to be Jewish and his beloved grandmother an Auschwitz survivor who had hidden her faith fearing further persecution. Keep Quiet depicts Szegedi’s three year journey as he is guided by Rabbi Boruch Oberlander to embrace his newfound religion, forcing him to confront the painful truths of his family’s past, his own wrong doing and the turbulent history of his country. But is this astonishing transformation a process of genuine reparation and spiritual awakening? Or is he simply a desperate man?
Weekly Shabbat Services, Oneg Shabbat, and Torah Study
Please join us at our weekly Friday night Shabbat Service at 6:00 PM followed by Oneg Shabbat. All are welcome to join our Weekly Torah Study with a Continental Breakfast every Saturday morning–where Rabbi Londy leads an engaging, stimulating, relevant, and fun discussion of the weekly Torah portion. Food is served at 9:00 AM, and Torah Study is held from 9:15 – 10:45 AM. All are welcome.
Contact us if you have any questions.
