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NEAR A SPACE THAT WILL SOON HOUSE JAMES NAISMITH’S RULES OF BASKETBALL, preschoolers in the Butterflies class at Hilltop Child Development Center learn the rules of Red Light, Green Light from their teacher, Maggie Vindeska, on Wednesday on the Allen Fieldhouse lawn.
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There is a commandment in Judaism that says each Jewish person must write a Torah scroll, Judaism’s most sacred object containing the Five Books of Moses, in their lifetime, Chabad Center for Jewish Life Director Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel said. But that would be impossible, Tiechtel said, as the tremendous task takes between 62 and 84 sheets of parchment, exactly 304,805 letters and several
Topeka — In an effort to change the debate over school funding and education policy, Gov. Sam Brownback and a group of rural Republican state senators are calling on Democrat Paul Davis to remove his appointee to a task force Vratil on school efficiency. John Vratil, a moderate Republican from Leawood and a former vice president of the Kansas Senate, was appointed to the K-12 Student Performance
months to complete. Tiechtel said the Torah scroll is so important that if a person drops one, everyone in the room must fast for three Tiechtel days. Instead of writing a whole scroll, many choose to sponsor the writing of a letter in the Torah to fulfill Please see SCROLL, page 2A
Independent walks tightrope in Senate bid By Thomas Beaumont Associated Press
Overland Park — Greg Orman, the suddenly relevant independent candidate for the U.S. Senate in Kansas, is walking a tightrope in his campaign against GOP Sen. Pat Roberts, projecting himself as fresh and authentic while acknowledging that he’s been both a Republican and a Democrat. Roberts is painting the wealthy 45-year-old businessman as a “dishonest,
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