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(JTA) — The family of a victim of a white supremacist attack on two suburban Kansas City Jewish institutions settled a lawsuit with the national chain Walmart, which sold one of the shotguns used by the killer. News of the settlement were announced on Tuesday. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Terri LaManno…
Jason Kander ended his campaign for Kansas City mayor on Tuesday to seek treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. In a candid Facebook post, the former Missouri Secretary of State detailed the struggles he’s been facing for 11 years, since leaving his tour in Afghanistan as an Army intelligence officer. Kander said that after much hesitation,…
(JTA) — A Missouri man made several bomb threats to Jewish institutions in the Kansas City area and in Washington DC, a federal complaint charges. Ford Kevin Coots, 25, of Urich, Missouri, allegedly threatened the synagogues and Jewish community centers and later assaulted a federal officer sent to question him, local media reported. On April…
When he would go to New York on art-buying excursions with his late wife, Marion, Henry Bloch would balk at the price tags. “It was very expensive,” the 94-year-old H&R Block founder and philanthropist said. “They talked me into it.” Asked what he meant by “very expensive,” Bloch repeated, “Very expensive.” Bloch was on hand…
It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, and as the number of survivors steadily dwindles, there’s a heartwarming documentary out there that follows the life of one of them, the nonagenarian Sonia Warshawski. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri and still drives on her own and runs a tailor shop. Joie de vivre permeates “Big Sonia,” from Warshawski’s…
A Jewish questioner was arrested after asking Middle East expert Dennis Ross a pointed question about what he called Israeli and U.S. “state-sponsored terrorism” at a lecture at a Kansas City library. Jeremy Rothe-Kushel was charged with trespassing and resisting arrest after he challenged Ross to explain why the U.S. continues to support Israel at…
The Jewish Community Center of Kansas City will erect a memorial to honor the victims of the deadly 2014 shooting at the JCC and a nearby Jewish site. The memorial site at the Jewish community campus in Overland Park, Kansas, is under development, according to the JCC, the local media reported. Sculptor Jesse Small of…
The white supremacist who killed three people at two suburban Kansas City Jewish institutions has been sentenced to death. F. Glenn Miller Jr. (also known as F. Glenn Cross), 74, was sentenced Tuesday by Johnson County District Judge Kelly Ryan, the Kansas City Star reported. Miller is only the second person sentenced to the death…
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