Central Reform Congregation

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We started slowly, out of need. A few bright young St. Louis area couples with children nearing school age came to realize that they needed to act if they were to raise them as Jews. They had no congregational affiliations and the last nearby synagogue was following its congregants out and away from the city limits. They did not like the idea of having the City, for many years home to several dozen Jewish congregations, totally devoid of a Jewish presence. Wedding their social consciousness to their burgeoning Jewish awareness, they decided, after much soul-searching, to create a new Jewish place of worship within the City of St. Louis. Over twenty years later, believing more than ever that a desire to heal and transform the world demands that we not flee the problems of the inner city, we revel in our status as the City's only Jewish congregation. Our voice is heard in discussions and plans for urban revitalization and our hands are busy in a variety of efforts aimed at revitalizing the area and improving life for our neighbors. Because of our actively, authentically, Jewish presence, St. Louis is becoming recognized as something more than a Catholic city. So much so, in fact, that when the Pope visited recently, it was to our rabbi that the archdiocese turned for advice on creating a Jewish component of the papal events. It was our rabbi who was asked to do a prayer at our governor's funeral. If our initial goal was modest, our successes have been inordinate...

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