Upon the retirement of Rabbi Alvan D. Rubin, Temple Israel invited Rabbi Shook to become Senior Rabbi. The Shooks returned to St. Louis in late June, 1987. This marks Rabbi Shook s tenth year as Senior Rabbi. A special service on April 18 will include remarks from representatives of the community as well as our congregation. Rabbi Shook has touched many lives in our community.
Legendary sayings are difficult to place in the context of their time.
There was a need for parity with Christian clergy. Thirty years ago, this July, I began my studies at the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Carol and I arrived in a Cincinnati torn by racial violence. Ohio National Guard tanks still patrolled the city streets. It was a strange, yet exhilarating summer.