100 Years Ago
(From the Feb. 13, 1925 issue of The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle)
Mr. Sam Beber, president of the Supreme Advisory of the Order of Aleph Zadik Aleph for Young Men, will be the principal speaker at the installation of officers and open meeting of the Kansas City Chapter of the Order, to be held in the Y.M.Y.W.H.A. Building Sunday, February 22, at 8 p.m. The meeting is open to everyone. Especially welcome are those boys between the ages of 16 and 21, who are desirous of becoming members of the Order.
75 Years Ago
(From the Feb. 10, 1950 issue of The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle)
An installation of officers will be held Saturday, Feb. 25. … The group will meet Sunday, Feb. 19, at the Center. A cultural meeting was held Feb. 5, at the Center; refreshments were served… Ivan Goodman, Morton Spack and Milton Searles were voted into the club. .. The team added another win to their undefeated season by beating the Collegians 28-14.
30 Years Ago
(From the Feb. 10, 1995 issue of The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle)
Kansas City Council BBYO and the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City have teamed up to bring Holocaust Expression Theatre to our community. Holocaust Expression Theatre is a series of dramatic vignettes that will encourage the audience to think about the dangers of intolerance, ethnic prejudice and bigotry in their society and to-examine individual responsibility toward democracy and social justice.
Currently, 12 theater groups have been established in North America, including Louisville, Memphis, Dallas, Tulsa, Milwaukee and Detroit. And now Kansas City teens have been added to the list. About 250 teens will be involved in this project nationwide.
Each group will study Holocaust history by reading, viewing videotapes, attending lectures given by educators and historians and by meeting with survivors. They then develop a theme for their theater presentation and write the script. Following the major production, the group will become an educational theater group, offering presentations to schools and community groups. Following each performance, they will interact with the audience, conducting discussions for which they will be specially trained.
Kansas City’s Holocaust Expression Theatre will debut with two performances: at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26. Both performances will be staged in the Social Hall at the Jewish Community Campus. Tickets are currently on sale at the JCC. Admission is $4 for JCC members; $5 for non-members; $3 for students.
20 Years Ago
(From the Feb. 11, 2005 issue of The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle)
Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy student (and Two’s AZA member) Ari Horing is one step closer to hls dream of playing soccer for the Israeli national team. He will be a forward on the United States boys’ soccer team at the 17th international Maccabiah games in Israel.
At 16, Horing has already made quite a name for himself in the Kansas City soccer scene. As one of the captains of the HBHA Rams, he was the top scorer in Johnson County for the fall 2004 season, and he ranked second in the county in 2003.
In the 2002 and 2003 U.S. Maccabi regional games, he helped the KC JCC boys’ soccer team win sliver medals. Right now, his hope ls to win an athletic scholarship to a Division I college. And this summer, he will participate in the Maccabiah on the U.S. boys 16- to 18-year-old soccer team.
Ari applied, and tryouts were held starting Dec. 17 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Out of the 54 invitees, 20 would be selected based on the skills they demonstrated in games and training sessions.
Ari’s mother, Shoula Horing, said that during the first game in which the boys were organized into full teams, Ari didn’t get ln right away.
“I sat on the bench until a midfielder got taken out,” Ari said, “but I’m not a midfielder. I had told the coaches before the game that I was a forward, and in the middle of the game, one of the forwards got taken out, so I approached the coaches and told them again.”
After that. said Shaula Holing, Ari scored two· goals where none had been scored previously, and the coaches started him as a forward in two more trial games.
Ari said he tried to be aggressive, and that he “gave 100 percent on all The plays. I played great offense, and I tried to make the other team’s defense turn the ball over as much as possible.” He said he was proud to represent the Kansas City Jewish community.
“I think what the coaches were mainly looking for was heart,” he said. “You can get a kid with a lot of skills on the field, but to get someone with both that and a good heart is difficult.”
The U.S. boys soccer team’s head coach, Mike Jeffries, called Ari “a great scorer.”
“He’s very fast; he works really well in one-on-one situations; and he works hard to get open and help defensively,” Jeffries said. “In the short time I got to know him, he seemed like a guy who’s a very intense competitor.”
Ari is excited to be joining 7,000 other athletes from all over the world for the event.Besides the U.S. and Israel, there will be youth soccer teams from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden and Venezuela (i.e., countries where soccer, not baseball, Is the national pastime).
The other thing that excites him, however, is that since he was born in Israel (Shoula Horing is a sabra) and has dual citizenship, his extended family will come to see him play in the games. Not to mention the exposure.
“There are going to be college scouts and people from national teams watching these games,” said Shoula Horing. “People from the Israeli national team will be watching these games!”
