Longtime Congregation BJBE Rabbi Mark Shapiro, who led

Rabbi Mark S. Shapiro, longtime chief of Congregation B’nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim in Glenview, used to be an eloquent orator and social justice chief who impressed a lot of his scholars to turn out to be non secular leaders themselves. Rabbi Shapiro, a Northbrook resident, died Aug. 28 at 85 of Parkinson’s illness. “One of the things he was most proud of is he had many, many, many students — upward of 30 or 40 — who decided to become rabbis and cantors and teachers and Jewish educators,” stated Steve Shapiro of Minneapolis, the eldest of Rabbi Shapiro’s 3 sons. “That was a legacy he was maybe more proud of than anything.” Rabbi Shapiro led Congregation B’nai Jehoshua Beth