Shaare Zedek Synagogue was a

Conservative Jewish Conservative Judaism, known as Masorti Judaism outside North America, is a Jewish religious movement which regards the authority of ''halakha'' (Jewish law) and traditions as coming primarily from its people and community through the generatio ...

synagogue A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of worshi ...

founded in 1905 in

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, United States. In 2013 the synagogue merged with Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel synagogue in

to become Kol Rinah.''Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel and Shaare Zedek Synagogue''
St. Louis Jewish Light (St. Louis, Missouri), January 2, 2013

Shooting

On October 8, 1977, guests who attended a bar mitzvah were leaving Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel synagogue when white supremacist Joseph Paul Franklin began shooting at them, killing Gerald Gordon, and wounding Steven Goldman and William Ash.

References

External links

''Faith Family Future: Shaare Zedek by Shaare Zedek Synagogue''
Shaare Zedek Synagogue (St. Louis, Missouri), 2005
''Community Directory''
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