Rabbi Dale Schreiber

Rabbi Dale Schreiber has served Barnes-Jewish Hospital as interfaith chaplain for Oncology Services and as Coordinator for Jewish Care for nine years. Her work focuses on advocacy, resiliency, and identifying resources for healing and wholeness.  Her approach underscores the importance of integrating four realms of personal reality: the physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual. Rabbi Schreiber serves the institution as a member of the Ethics Committee and Ethics Consultation Committee, Task Force on Patient Distress, the Compassion Fatigue Project, and Schwartz Rounds planning and implementation committee.  She actively participates in supporting patients, families, and staff and in education through a variety of cancer support groups, the Humanities in Medicine Program at Washington University School of Medicine, Oncology Nurse Residency Program, and Clinical Pastoral Education Programs.

Rabbi Schreiber’s odyssey to the rabbinate included a profession as a clinical audiologist at Scripps Clinic in LaJolla and a subsequent metamorphosis into Jewish Education.  It was during this time that she became interested in student centered learning, best practices, and writing curriculum from a peace and justice perspective for Jewish supplemental, adult education, and day schools.  She has served the St. Louis Jewish community in a number of leadership roles since 1985.  Her interests in clear communications, successful learning environments, deep listening, and spiritual growth led her to the rabbinate.  She achieved two ordinations:  as Rabbinic Pastor in 2004, and in 2008 as Rabbi.

She is a member of the St. Louis Rabbinical Association, the National Association of Jewish Chaplains, the Association for Professional Chaplaincy, the Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal, and Ohalah, the national association of Jewish Renewal Rabbis, Cantors, and Pastors.  Rabbi Schreiber is a regular contributor to the Jewish Light weekly newspaper and has presented at local and national conferences on matters relating to ethics, righteousness, forgiveness, and healing.  In addition to her hospital work, Rabbi Schreiber serves as spiritual leader of B’nai Torah synagogue in St. Peters, Missouri.

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