Recently, the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City (JCC) launched a campaign to raise 12 million dollars to renovate the aquatics center and theater. Over five years after the 2020 announcement...

As the year comes to a close The RampageWired is not quite closed. Pictured above are two writers continuing to work into the last week of school. This year our writers have worked hard to create articles...

Jake Sosland, a sophomore, gives a heartfelt, emotional senior send-off speech to his sister Gabby. Photo by

This week, HBHA’s middle and lower school held a field day on Tuesday, May 5th. Due to bad weather they had to pivot to an indoor version where Coach Ness came in clutch with an amazing gym setup. The...

This week we're going to do something a little different. The Senior lounge.  A representation of top tier HBHA status.  This is the sole place that students wait 13 years to step foot into...

Yom HaZikaron is a day of remembrance. All HBHA participated in programs dedicated to remembering the fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism throughout Israel's past and present. After reflecting...

This week at HBHA, we ended our long lasting hiatus from school with a full five days of labor! Despite the freedom coming to an end, students (pictured above) were ‘super excited’ to get back into...

  On Wednesday morning, March 11th, the Kindergarten performed their annual Melaveh Malkah where they sang songs about Jewish experience. They explained their meanings in both Hebrew and English....

Knowledge of history is on the decline. Over the last ten years of my life, I have heard countless times that kids are increasingly more uninformed about basic history.  I've observed that oftentimes...

Kashering a kitchen might be the most underrated skill for young Jewish adults to learn. How are you going to eat when you buy a new house/apartment, stay at a hotel, or work in a workplace? This is...

This week, Village Shalom, Overland Park, Kan.,  unveiled the cover art for their new Siddurim, donated by Sharon and Stuart Pase and Rachel and David Sosland in honor of Samuel and Gertrude Epstein....

The tragic sinking of the Titanic (1912) was a pivotal historical event in the early 20th century. This week HBHA took upper school students on a field trip to Union Station’s Titanic exhibit to learn...

This week, the freshmen and sophomore classes welcomed guest speaker journalist Dan Margolies in preparation to embark on their biennial Civil Rights Trip. Throughout his presentation on Esther Brown,...

In preparation for Tu B’Shvat this upcoming Monday, Upper School Stucco hosted a K-12 family program. During which students played Kahoot, (an HBHA classic) decorated pots, and planted parsley in them....

Over the first semester, a handful of students in the Upper School worked meticulously on still-life drawings of their choice. First, they set up what they wanted to draw and later spent hours perfecting...

HBHA returned from winter break to a week of Winterims. A brand new Winterim offered by Dr. Reem was Sink or Swim, where students were tasked with building cardboard boats and navigating across the J-pool...

Annually, HBHA holds a sporting match for the seniors to face off against the faculty. This past Thursday, the faculty utterly obliterated the senior class in a game of volleyball (three sets to none)....

This week HBHA’s 8th graders took a four-day camping trip to Southern Missouri accompanied by three faculty members. During this trip they spent time at Twin Pines Conservation Area, where they learned...

HBHA is excited to welcome Rachel Kricsfeld, our brand-new lower school art teacher and community engagement specialist. With art teacher Kelly Reichman working currently on a part-time schedule, Kricsfeld...

On Thursday morning, HBHA took a break from classes to attend a school-wide Rosh Hashanah Seder. Led by Rabbi Elizabeth Bonney-Cohen and the Upper School STUCO, students got to enjoy the traditional...