On Saturday, Sept. 15, Shaare Zedek Synagogue will honor Rabbi Shalom Paul who will mark 40 years of visiting St. Louis annually to observe and teach during the High Holidays. The community is invited free of charge to the event which will begin at 10:15 a.m. A professor emeritus who has held numerous teaching positions at institutions of higher learning in the United States and Israel including at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Paul is the author of a number of scholarly books and articles. Ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, he would go on to receive an honorary doctorate from the institution in 1986.

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