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  Message from President, Joe Pereles- 2011 Annual Meeting

Dear Fellow Congregants,

Thank you for installing me as Congregation Shaare Emeth’s 52nd President.
 
One person really deserves my thanks and that is my wife Brenda.  Had I not been in line for this position, there is no doubt in my mind that Brenda would be president of some St. Louis not for profit organization whose name I will not mention. Brenda, however, said that the Pereles family can have only one serving president at a time.  Thank you Brenda for putting the temple first.

Last year Rabbi Goldstein asked a very pertinent question: Why would someone want to serve as a board member or officer of a temple?  Let me answer that question.

I have been lucky in my life to have been associated with 2 wonderful humanitarian organizations.  The first is the American Red Cross.  I have been a Red Cross volunteer for over 25 years and currently serve as a Vice Chair of the National Board of Governors.  I believe that the Red Cross is America’s greatest humanitarian organization.  The 2nd organization is Temple Shaare Emeth, a great St. Louis humanitarian organization.  Both the Red Cross and Temple Shaare Emeth are available to those in need 365 days/year and 24/hours a day, 7/days a week.  Both provide services without asking for anything in return. Both are there in good times; for the Red Cross, it’s providing life saving blood or teaching CPR classes that might end up saving a life and for the temple, it’s providing a room at the inn or having a rabbi officiate at a wedding or bar or bat mitzvah.  But more importantly, both organizations are there for the tough times; floods and fires for the Red Cross; life cycle events and spiritual enrichment for Shaare Emeth.

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