Rabbi Kaplansky to Head UAHC Office St. Louis Jewish Right 10-19-83 (p.4) Rabbi Howard Kaplansky Kaplansky was a member of has been named director of the Missouri Advisory Board the Midwest Council of the of the Anti-Defamation Union of American Hebrew League of B'nai B'rith; vice Congregations, the Reform president of the St. Louis Rab- movement's national syna- binical Association, and a gogue and temple organiza- member of the High School tion, according to a recent an- Committee of the Central Ag- nouncement by Rabbi Alexan- ency for Jewish Education. He der M. Schindler, UAHC presi- was also a participant in the dent. Jewish Federation's Leader- Rabbi Kaplansky, 41, a na- ship Development Council. He tive of Cleveland, who was or- is currently a delegate of the dained by the Hebrew Union St. Louis Rabbinical Associa- College-Jewish Institute of Re- tion to the Jewish Community ligion, served as assistant rab- Relations Council of St. Louis, bi of United Hebrew Temple in a post he held during his pre- St. Louis from 1971-75. Subse- vious stay in the community. quently he served as associate Rabbi Howard Kaplansky In Springfield, Rabbi Kap- rabbi of Rodef Shalom Con- pecially pleased to have the lansky was chairman of that gregation in Pittsburgh, Pa., opportunity to work for the community's JCRC; member from 1975-77, and as rabbi of betterment of the Reform of the Jewish Federation Sinai Temple in Springfield, movement in the Midwest re- Board of Directors and the Mass., from 1977 until accept- gion." boards of the Springfield Jew- ing the UAHC post. The Midwest Council of ish Family Service, Jewish "I am happy to be back in UAHC extends from Denver, Nursing Home of Western, St. Louis, a community which Colo., to Knoxville, Tenn., and Mass., the Springfield Com- my family has come to regard comprises 59 congregations, munity Center, and chairman as home," Rabbi Kaplansky including seven in St. Louis. of the Federation's Church- told the Jewish Light, "I'm es- While in St. Louis, Rabbi State Commission. He is a member of the Na- tional Rabbinic Cabinet of State of Israel Bonds and the Church-State Commission of the National Jewish Commu- nity Relations Advisory Coun- cil. While in Pittsburgh, Rabbi Kaplansky was a member of the JCRC; the Urban Affairs Committee and the Inter- group Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation, and vice president of the Pitts- burgh Rabbinic Fellowship. Rabbi Kaplansky said he "looks forward to working with the Reform and total Jewish community of St. Louis. This is a crucial time for the development of an American interpretation of Judaism - a development to which our Reform movement is dedicated. We seek to devel- op an American expression of Judaism consistent with the environment in which we live.' Rabbi Kaplansky is married to the former Susan Kraus of Cleveland, who is a supervisor in the Older Adult Program at the Jewish Community Cen- ters Association. The Kaplan- skys are the parents of two daughters, Mindy. 10. and Emily 8