Rabbi Stanley R. Miles celebrated 30 years with Temple Shalom in 2008 and is the first and only full time Rabbi that we have ever known. He was born and grew up in Terre Haute, Indiana. Rabbi Miles went to college at Indiana University where he started his Louisville connection by becoming friends with two fraternity brothers from here. He eventually met Sheilah Abramson, a local girl, and their marriage and his eventual enrollment at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, OH further solidified his future in Louisville. Rabbi received his degree from Hebrew Union College in 1975, and was conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD) in 2000. He is a member of the KY Board of Rabbis and Cantors and a past president of Great Lakes-Ohio Valley Association of Reform Rabbis (GLOVARR).
Rabbi Miles is a very people oriented person and especially looks forward to spending time at Camp GUCI with teen members of our congregation, a place where he realized his own calling when he was a boy. Rabbi Miles personally prepares all of our Bar and Bat Mitzvah candidates for their call to lead services and read from the Torah. Stanley and Sheilah Miles have a son Seth, and a daughter Heather. Both children have been a source of pride for Stan and Sheilah. Equally important are Susan and Shayne who have married into the family in recent years.
Those of us who have seen him at Purim, chanting the megillah to various movie and show tunes, know of his other great love, theater. Each year he travels to New York with groups from Louisville Hebrew School and adult groups introducing Midwesterners to Broadway, Shabbat services at Temple Emanuel or BJE, good Kosher deli and visits to various Jewish sites and other museums in the Big Apple. Rabbi Miles takes groups both from Temple Shalom and the Western Galilee Partnership Consortium to Israel on a regular basis, forming relationships between Temple Shalom and Israel, her land and people. These trips, plus his devotion to teaching at Camp GUCI have certainly brought Rabbi closer to many of our younger members, at least two of who are seriously considering careers in the Reform movement.
When my family and I joined Temple Shalom, over 12 years ago, we immediately felt welcomed and treated as part of a big family. Over the years I have been actively involved in the Generations Committee, which has been responsible for organizing congregtional Shabbatons. I have served as programming vice president for Women of Temple Shalom (WOTS), our synogogue sisterhood and I am currently serving out a two year term as WOTS treasurer.
I teach sociology at the University of Louisville where my major focus is on race, gender, and class inequality. I am committed to the value of equality of opportunity and the dismantling of discrimination. I serve as a commissioner on the Advocacy Board of the Metro Human Relations Commission.
As President Elect I look forward to spending the next year learning more about the workings of Temple Shalom and how I can move Temple Shalom in new and exciting ways.
President-Elect, Judy Sharp
I am looking forward to becoming president of Temple Shalom in June 2012. I have been a member of this wonderful congregation since 1986 with a hiatus of eleven years when I moved to Arizona. While in Arizona, I served as president of the Reform congregation in Prescott. I returned to Louisville in 2008 and have been very busy since then volunteering at Temple Shalom.
In my "former" life, I taught school for many years and then bought a business that I operated for eight years. I received my degrees at the University of Washington after a few years at the University of Illinois and have lived in many areas of the country because my husband was an engineer at General Electric who had positions in many different cities.
I have traveled to Israel several times and really appreciate the participation of Temple Shalom in the partnership region in the Western Galilee.
Rabbi Stanley R. Miles celebrated 30 years with Temple Shalom in 2008 and is the first and only full time Rabbi that we have ever known. He was born and grew up in Terre Haute, Indiana. Rabbi Miles went to college at Indiana University where he started his Louisville connection by becoming friends with two fraternity brothers from here. He eventually met Sheilah Abramson, a local girl, and their marriage and his eventual enrollment at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, OH further solidified his future in Louisville. Rabbi received his degree from Hebrew Union College in 1975, and was conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD) in 2000. He is a member of the KY Board of Rabbis and Cantors and a past president of Great Lakes-Ohio Valley Association of Reform Rabbis (GLOVARR).
When my family and I joined Temple Shalom, over 12 years ago, we immediately felt welcomed and treated as part of a big family. Over the years I have been actively involved in the Generations Committee, which has been responsible for organizing congregtional Shabbatons. I have served as programming vice president for Women of Temple Shalom (WOTS), our synogogue sisterhood and I am currently serving out a two year term as WOTS treasurer. 