Reconstructionist Rabbi Steve Gutow was chosen as executive director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. Gutow has served as executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council and Southwest regional director for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Gutow, who was a pulpit rabbi for the Reconstructionist Minyan of St. Louis, also is an attorney and taught at the Saint Louis University School of Law the past two years.
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