COMPILED BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
• Published January 15, 2021
Elana Hertel has joined Central Reform Congregation as executive assistant to the rabbinic team. She graduated from Missouri State University with a bachelor’s degree in business and event management, holds a Certified Special Events Professional (CSEP)...
The daughters of Zelophechad (Numbers 26ff) challenged the systems of power and inheritance that left them invisible and vulnerable. The Book of Numbers tells us that they understood that movements for social change often take generations. They planted...
BY SAM MOSHER, STAFF WRITER
• Published June 28, 2018
Before Susan Talve became the first rabbi of Central Reform Congregation, she helped start Ohio’s first licensed infant child care program in the workplace. During Talve’s graduate years at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, a classmate who was...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief
• Published June 1, 2017
Central Reform Congregation, which since 2001 has lovingly used a leased Torah scroll that was among more than 1,500 such scrolls to survive the Holocaust, has just received that scroll as a gift from Kol Katan. The chavurah/congregation flourished in...
By Rabbi Susan Talve
• Published February 15, 2017
On Monday night, Feb. 6, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum gathered a group of rabbis together to make sure we were emotionally and spiritually ready for arrest. We were preparing for a holy and humble offering in the face of injustice. We would be putting our...
The next session of Jewish Attention to Mental Illness-Mental Health, the ninth in the series called “Shanda: There is None,” will take place at 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 14 at Central Reform Congregation, 5020 Waterman Blvd. Rabbi Susan Talve and Rabbi...
JAMI, Jewish Attention to Mental Health-Mental Illness, will hold “Shanda: There Is None,” a community forum convened by Rabbis Susan Talve and James Stone Goodman, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 15 at Central Reform Congregation, 5020 Waterman...
Rabbi Susan Talve of Central Reform Congregation was a special guest at the White House on Wednesday. Talve was one of two guest speakers at the White House Hanukkah reception — the other was Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. Talve also gave a blessing...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published December 28, 2011
Not long ago Melvin Zuhler seemed to have it all -- his family, his health, a successful business and a bank account totaling near six figures. Yet as 2011 draws to a close, Zuhler is looking for only one thing -- help. "I want a second chance," said...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published December 14, 2011
They come for the wedding. They come for the bar and bat mitzvah. They come for the High Holidays. But the question that troubles Rick Kodner doesn't revolve around lifecycle events. How do you get them to come the rest of the time? "What's happened is...
By David Baugher , Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 30, 2011
As Barry Rosenberg nurses a cup of coffee at a local café, the President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater St. Louis paints a picture of what many once thought was a typical Jewish home. "Most of our institutions were designed to serve what...
