Article: LETTER FROM KANSAS CITY; Small City Fields a Big Presence At Jerusalem Federation Parley

Rosenberg, Martin
Forward
11-28-2003
The 20,000 Jews living in this Midwestern city represent a statistical blip
in the American Jewish population, but the community registered the
equivalent of a 6 on the Richter scale last week in Jerusalem at an
international gathering of communal leaders.

Kansas City sent a 114-person delegation to the United Jewish Communities
General Assembly -- second only to the group of 231 participants from the
New York City metropolitan area, including Westchester. But New York boasts
an overall Jewish population exceeding 1.7 million, meaning the region
would have had to send 10,000 participants to top Kansas City as the
per-capita champion of the G.A.

The Kansas City ...

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