Join the "TI Tribe" co-ed softball team
04/11/2024 03:07:22 PM
TI’s Softball Team is Now Recruiting for the 2024 Season!
After repeating as League Champion, Temple Israel’s co-ed softball team captain, Jeremy Shook, has decided to retire. We’re excited to announce two TI members stepping in to help us reign victorious...Read more...
Temple Israel's Next Executive Director
03/30/2024 11:06:44 AM
Dear Temple Israel members and Education Center families,
I want to share that our Executive Director (ED), Rachel Wallis Andreasson, will be leaving her full-time position at Temple Israel in the coming months and returning to a...Read more...
Passover appeal to the community from the St. Louis Rabbinical and Cantorial Association
03/14/2024 08:22:05 AM
Dear Friends,
As we near the celebration of Passover, we thank you for giving us the opportunity to serve you and for helping our community thrive. The St. Louis Rabbinical and Cantorial Association (STLRCA) is the only clergy...Read more...
Confirmation students advocate for pray Safe act in d.c.
03/03/2024 06:50:13 PM
On February 23-25, Confirmation students Amanda Arst, Sari Gross, and Lucas Padratzik traveled to Washington D.C. with youth program leaders Maya Poger and Sarah Manley to participate in the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism L’Taken Social Justice...Read more...
TI Members take a solidarity trip to israel
02/23/2024 10:12:40 AM
Temple Israel members Lynn Wallis, Adam Wallis, and Billy Rubenstein visited Israel from February 2 through February 11 on a private solidarity trip. Accompanied by Rabbi Nir Barkin of Congregation Yozma in Modi’in, Israel, they delivered packages to...Read more...
Have you met rachel leonard?
02/05/2024 10:06:28 AM
When we were stuck at home in 2020, it dawned on me that my kids were missing a religious education, so we joined TI, which seemed like such a good place for my interfaith family. I was so right. This place has become such an important part of our...Read more...
Don't miss A Very Muppet Purim Shpiel
01/29/2024 09:51:28 AM
By Jonah Alper
2024 Purim Shpiel Writer & Co-Director
I've spent a lot of time around Purim Shpiels: I grew up with them, I've been in them, I've written them, and in fact, I remember when kids weren't even in...Read more...
"what is your reason to consider a legacy?"
12/19/2023 04:09:16 PM
In the early 1970s, Temple Israel had only four executive officers – the president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. Many Sunday mornings were spent, along with the membership chairman, in the Temple office discussing the...Read more...
Our Roots and Zachor — Our Memory
12/15/2023 01:34:54 PM
By Executive Director Rachel Wallis Andreasson
When I became the Executive Director six years ago, one of the first books I read was History of Congregation Temple Israel written by Samuel Rosenkranz which encompasses our history from 1886...Read more...
Louise Losos'S address to the congregation
12/01/2023 12:29:25 PM
By Immediate-Past President, Louise Losos
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A Message from norc manager and Ti member, sarah levinson
11/01/2023 10:38:18 AM
Hi, TI community,
I’m Sarah Z. Levinson, and I’m the manager of the St. Louis NORC at Jewish Family Services (JFS).
I moved to St. Louis for graduate school in 2009 and met my husband, Ben, at a...Read more...
First-person account in israel
10/09/2023 09:54:37 AM
A Blog Series by Josh Scharff
Josh Scharff is a TI community member and Development Coordinator and Student Rabbi at The Daniel Centers for Progressive Judaism currently living in Tel Aviv, Israel.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2023
Six Days and Everything Has Changed
What the past days of fighting have broken, both physically and conceptually.
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The situation in Israel: A message from the rabbis
10/07/2023 03:35:38 PM
Dear Temple Israel community,
As you may have seen on the news today, Israel has been facing deadly attacks from Hamas and the safety and wellbeing of its citizens still stands in jeopardy. We are absolutely heartbroken by the...Read more...
The Shanker Family: Here for Generations
09/26/2023 02:21:16 PM
We joined Temple Israel through a series of meaningful encounters and connections with Rabbi Amy. It all began in Curacao, which now feels like a distant memory. During our time there, Rabbi Amy officiated the wedding of my brother and sister-in-law, Morgan and Matt...Read more...
healthy habits for the new year
09/05/2023 09:51:06 AM
As we get ready to approach the New Year, one can’t help but think about a reset. In addition to improving our relationship with others, this is also a time to think about self-improvement, especially as it relates to self-care.
If you’ve been running...Read more...
BACk to school & High holy days for families
08/28/2023 09:44:10 AM
I can always tell when it's an extra special year here at our Education Center, and this one is already proving to be just that. Deutsch Early Childhood Center welcomed our community for the first day of the new school year, and students were so excited! We started off the week by...Read more...
an unexpected legacy
06/20/2023 01:17:38 PM
I don’t remember when I first met Robert Burg. His was a familiar face from High Holy Days services, where he usually sat close to the front, and occasionally our paths crossed at a local restaurant that we both enjoyed, but we rarely did more than greet each other. Until that is, I...Read more...
Friday Night Lights
06/05/2023 02:04:05 PM
"More than Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews."
-Achad Ha’am
I have always appreciated a quote that makes me stop and think. This one was the theme of a recent “Shabbat Across America” we participated in...Read more...
New Leadership Program takes teens on a Jewish journey
05/22/2023 02:59:00 AM
There’s a well-worn joke that every Rabbi knows. A bunch of Rabbis are sitting around, talking about how they each have mice in their synagogues. “I called an exterminator but it didn’t do a thing,” said one. “I bought a big wheel of cheese and tried to lure them out, but it just...Read more...
