Connection! Commitment! Community!

Congregation Shaare Emeth blends the tradition of a longstanding, multi-generational synagogue with the innovativeness of bright, vibrant clergy and staff in a warm, welcoming environment.  We nurture you and your children with spiritually uplifting services, lifelong Jewish adult education and exciting programs for all ages.  We are an extended family that is there for you in simchas and in sorrow.   Congregation Shaare Emeth strives to be a welcoming place for members and visitors who are interested in enriching their Jewish identity through worship, study and community.

Congregation Shaare Emeth’s Core Values and Mission decrees by proclamation that we celebrate our rich diversity as a congregation, a community within many communities. We are a great intergenerational family in a place where we care for and about one another. We are newcomers and old-timers alike; children and adults; individuals, couples, and families; multi-racial families; members gay and straight; Jews by birth and by choice; and non-Jewish partners and spouses. Interfaith families are always welcome.

Congregation Shaare Emeth is all that and more.  There’s something for everybody; our calendar is full of dynamic programming that will surely provide opportunities for participation by all!

For over 140 years, Congregation Shaare Emeth has served Jewish people in Saint Louis.  Come and find out why so many people come home to Congregation Shaare Emeth. 

We are…. Connection! Commitment! Community!