A Jewish Presence in the City of St. Louis
The traveling exhibit, “Making History: Kansas City and the Rise of Gay Rights” will be display at Central Reform Congregation beginning October 18. The exhibit began traveling throughout the St. Louis region last Fall, when local businesses, individuals, civic and religious organizations joined forces to support hosting the display in St. Louis after learning the news of …
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Thank you for your support in our water drive! Below you can continue to donate to a partner congregation who is helping with boots on the ground. Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi is working to provide aid to their community. To donate directly to their efforts: http://bethisraelms.org/donate-3/ Contact elana@centralreform.org with questions.
Dear CRC Community, I hope you are having a wonderful summer. I don’t want to hurry time, but autumn and the High Holidays have a way of sneaking up on us! I want to share our CRC plan for this year, our third High Holiday season with COVID as a reality in our lives. Another …
The siddur (sid-oor) is our prayer book that we use during Shabbat services at CRC. We have two slightly different siddurim* for our services on Friday and Saturday. These siddurim were uniquely compiled by the CRC community and rabbis! Each contains prayers that are traditional for that service, as well as modern selections we’ve chosen …
The University City High School Alumni Association (UCHSAA,) in partnership with All Nations Church, is working to help families with moderate incomes, no flood insurance or who are displaced by the recent floods in U City. To date, 350 homes and apartment units have been condemned with many more families also suffering extensive flood damage. FEMA has declared St. Louis a disaster area and …
We want to hear from you! We are forming a Community Experience Task Force to examine how best we can meet the needs of the CRC community using technology. From now until December, we will be collecting feedback on what your experience is like at CRC, via an anonymous feedback form, and also through three …
Abortions will continue regardless of the reckless decisions of the Supreme Court and of our Red State that now has the distinction of being the “first and the worst,” as our AG overturns court stays and signs Missouri’s trigger laws into being. Now, more people will die tragic, painful deaths and the divide between the …
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We are thrilled to announce that Sonya J. Vann, MDiv will join us as our new Executive Director starting May 16th! Sonya is an experienced Executive Director and Administrator with a rich background in the management of religious organizations. She joins us from Eden Theological Seminary, where she served as the Director of Admissions and …
To our CRC Community, As we watch the events unfold in Ukraine as millions flee their homes from Russian attacks, our hearts break together. We all are searching for meaningful ways to act on our prayers for peace and justice, and we’ve collected a few opportunities here that we have learned of from partner organizations …
“…“It’s part of being a rabbi now,” says Bogard, whose wife, Karen, is also a rabbi. “You go through these trainings of what to do if someone comes to kill you.” This is the reality for Jewish congregations all over the country, increasingly since the Tree of Life massacre in Pittsburgh in 2018, the Poway, California, shooting …