For longtime Kansas City residents this story resonates inasmuch as KC Proper once hosted a thriving Jewish community that moved on with the march of time . . .
Even now it's always interesting to pass by the former temple on Linwood or the old Beth Shalom Synagogue at 34th & Paseo and think of a bygone era when KCMO was a profoundly different place.
Accordingly . . .
Here's an effort to reconnect the community beyond borders . . .
"Across Greater Kansas City, Jewish life is not defined only by where synagogues, schools and community centers stand. Families live north of the river, in Midtown, in Olathe, in eastern Jackson County and far beyond the neighborhoods most closely associated with Jewish communal life . . . The question facing Kansas City’s Jewish institutions is not only where Jews live but also how to reach them."
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
KC Jewish Chronicle: Community institutions work to connect Jews across the metro ‘diaspora’