Unless otherwise noted, all events are virtual. Some events require an RSVP or enrollment in our programs, so please confirm your spot in advance. Please check directly with JFS on program dates, as dates may change.
Get Started with Jewish Genealogy A Learn, Laugh & Love program with The Heritage Center
Discover and record your family history!
Simple forms and interviews to use with family members
Online genealogical resources
Tools such as DNA testing
Genealogy programs for recording and preserving your stories and data
Helpful informational handouts and forms
Facilitator: Ron Doctor, Ph.d earned his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering in 1967, and became known as Dr. Doctor, thus mirroring his ancestors, who also had a surname that reflected their professions. Near the end of his lengthy career in the energy industry and as a professor, Ron began researching his genealogy. This passion culminated in a lifetime achievement award from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies.
This program is free, but reservations are requested by calling The Heritage Center reception desk at 913-327-8044.
Improving Strength through Daily Living
Learn about strengthening muscles through Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
Intensive exercise isn’t for everyone, but incorporating deliberate movement into activities of daily living can be done by most. This session demonstrates easy, simple, yet effective ways to strengthen muscles, if done regularly. Come prepared to practice what is demonstrated.
This program is free, but reservations are requested by calling The Heritage Center reception
desk at 913-327-8044.
Facilitator: Sally N. Ellis Fletcher, PhD, RN, FNAP, is a certified Fall Stop… Move Strong™ trainer. Her professional passions are nursing, education, diversity inclusion and health equity, multiculturalism, entrepreneurship, mentoring, and humanitarianism. She is the owner of Quality Life…Every Day!, LLC, and currently serves as the Associate Dean for Students at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing and Health Studies.
The Learn, Laugh, Love series is co-sponsored by The Heritage Center at The J and Jewish Family Services.
The Russian Cultural Association in partnership with JFS invite you to celebrate May 9, Victory Day commemorating heroes and veterans, fallen and survivors of the Great Patriotic War (WWI). Tickets $10 cover snacks and drinks. RSVP Facebook Page: Russian House of Kansas City.