Rabbi Steve Gutow

Rabbi Steve Gutow is a rabbi, lawyer, community activist, and Jewish leader. He currently serves as the President and CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. Steve has been named to the Forward 50 and in 2009 and 2010, Newsweek named him the 20th most influential rabbi in the US. He served as chair of the Save Darfur Coalition, and was the founding executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council. Steve graduated from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and served as Adjunct Law Professor Law at St. Louis University.

Regardless of affiliation, most Americans support a higher minimum wage.

News and Politics

A Blocked Senate Vote on Minimum Wage, A Moral Call to Action Against Poverty Wages

By Rabbi Steve Gutow

I learned a lot from my experience with hunger, lessons I wish more of our Senators understood before making their frustrating decision not to vote for an increase in the minimum wage this week, blocking a vote on the Minimum Wage Fairness Act.