Rabbinic Pastor Dale Schreiber comes to Rabbinic Pastoral ordination as a result of her strong commitments to community service and the helping professions. She obtained her Masters in Speech Communication and worked as a Clinical Audiologist for almost twenty years. In 1988, after moving to St. Louis with her husband and children, she began working as a Jewish educator. During her eight year tenure as Vice President for Youth Education and subsequently as Director of Youth and Family Education at Central Reform Congregation, Dale established an interactive, highly flexible multi-age program for a rapidly growing Jewish learning center. In 1997, she was recruited by Temple Emanuel to direct and co-ordinate Jewish programming, a position she held for three years. During this twelve year period Dale served both the St. Louis and Jewish communities in a number of volunteer capacities including membership on the Jewish Federation’s task force on Jewish Life, Chairing the Central Agency for Jewish Education’s Reform Educator Council, and served five years of significant leadership roles with the new Saul Mirowitz Day School-Reform Jewish Academy. She spent six years as a mentor in a Jewish and African American initiative to reduce drop out rates in city schools, and served as editor for a Community Alliance publication aimed at increasing healthy, life-affirming choices for teens. For the past five years she has been a participant with first year medical students in the Humanities in Medicine Program at Washington University and for six years has participated on an interfaith panel serving graduate students in the School of Social Work at St. Louis University.Dale is deeply appreciative of her family’s enduring support and steadfast love and of the many teachers and mentors who have helped her along this path. She will be the first woman to be ordained in her family. Long before her formal association with the Jewish renewal movement, she was using the teachings of Rabbis Zalman Schachter-Salomi , Arthur Waskow, and Marcia Prager to create paradigm shifts for encountering Judaism. She is particularly indebted to four St. Louis rabbis who supported her passion for Jewish study and provided significant mentorship: Rabbi Joseph Rosenbloom for not laughing when first approached and for pointing her toward Hebrew College on-line study courses, Rabbi Mordecai Magencey for the weekly study and directions to the Davvenen Leadership Training Institute, Rabbi James Stone Goodman for suggesting ALEPH as a meritorious course of study, and Rabbi Susan Talve for her insights and support from the very beginning of this amazing learning process. Additionally, much heart felt gratitude goes to the many ALEPH teachers and friends for enriching her life in immeasurable ways and to Rabbi Shohama Wiener for her spiritual guidance.Dale is beginning her fourth year as a student rabbi at Agudas Achim/Beth Israel synagogue in Belleville, Illinois. She has spent the past year as a full time clinical resident in Spiritual Care at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis as a trauma chaplain and will begin her work as Rabbinic Pastor in January, 2004.Dale and Robert have been married for 32 years and are the parents of three wonderful young adults, Michael, Andrew, and Elisa. 
