Column: Longtime Park Forest, Homewood rabbi steps down after 42 years

Column: Longtime Park Forest, Homewood rabbi steps down after 42 years

As well as we hope our directions in life are strong, one’s personal compass can often be reset to true north by others who look for unshakable guideposts for us in the shifting sands of time. This past Sunday, a host of friends, congregants and supporters at Shir Tikvah in Homewood honored one of these seekers, Rabbi Ellen Dreyfus, who in 1979 broke the stained glass ceiling by becoming the first woman rabbi ordained in Illinois. Rabbi Ellen Dr…