| Rabbi
Lane Steinger was born in St, Louis, Missouri on January 8, 1946. He attended
Horton Watkins Senior High School, from which he graduated in 1984, end Temple
Israel where he was confirmed and participated actively in the Temple Youth Group
and in MOVFTY (now NFTY-Missouri Valley region). In 1988, Rabbi Steinger was a
cum laude graduated from Washington and Lee University in Lexington Virginia Before
rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion,
Cincinnati in 1973. Rabbi Steinger was President of the Senior Class. He
served student pulpits in West Virginia end Illinois Following ordination; he
became the spiritual leader of Temple Emanuel of Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
In 1976 he was called to serve as Associate Rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Oak Park,
Michigan. He became co-Rabbi there in 1979, and Senior Rabbi in 1981.
Rabbi
Steinger has been active in matters of Jewish and general concern on the local,
state, and national levels. He has served on many boards in the Jewish, and general
communities. He served for six years on the Commission on Social Action of Reform
Judaism, was involved with the Christian, Muslim, Jewish Leadership Forum (the
first of its kind) from its inception in 1985, was a Jewish Chaplain at William
Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, for over a decade, and was on the faculty
of Olin Sang Ruby Union Camp Institute, Oconomowoc Wisconsin for ten years. Recently
Rabbi Steinger has been an officer of both the St Louis Rabbinical Association
and the Association of Reform Rabbis of Greater St. Louis.
Currently he
serves on the Board of the Reform Jewish Academy.
He has authored several
articles and essays including a personal memory piece about his great-grandmother
entitled ”Mutter” in the anthology First Harvest and ”Honor Humanity And
Honor The Holy One” in the UAHC’s "Torat Chayim – Living Torah”.
Rabbi Steinger was awarded the Doctor of Divinity degree, honoris causa
by HUC-JIR in 1998. Since July of 1996, he has been the Regional Director of the
Midwest Council UAHC. He and his wife Linda reside in St Louis. They are the proud
parents of Shira, Daina and Rafi. |
