One of the most important notions of outreach is to meet people where they are on their Jewish journey, both physically and spiritually. With our Public Space Judaism programs like Passover in the Matzah Aisle or Eight Days of Oil, we meet people in public places like grocery stores or malls to give them a taste of Judaism. A more challenging aspect of outreach is to meet people spiritually and find out what they need to make their path to Judaism more meaningful. But The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah in Overland Park, KS, has developed a new program that takes this challenge head-on – and they’re seeing some tremendous results.

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