Shaare Zedek Synagogue (University City, Missouri)


Shaare Zedek Synagogue was a Conservative Jewish synagogue founded in 1905 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. In 2013 the synagogue merged with Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel synagogue in St. Louis, Missouri to become Kol Rinah.

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.