Kosher Food

In the 1970s, Epstein’s—butcher, grocery, bakery—was the last surviving kosher market in the metro Kansas City area, once populated by a score of kosher stores. Epstein’s originally opened in the 1930s on 18th Street in Kansas City.

After Epstein’s Kosher butcher closed in the late 1980s, Les and Harvey Jacobson, who had owned a non-kosher grocery store, responded to the community’s needs by opening Jacobson’s Strictly Kosher Foods in 1990.

The original cover the the Joy of Jewish Cooking cookbook featured a line drawing of a woman stirring a large pot.

In 1965, the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation began the Blintz Brunch. Now held in November, on the Sunday before election day, it serves as the major community fundraiser for the congregation.