Sasso appeared in a 2005 documentary, titled And the Gates Opened: Women in the Rabbinate, which features stories of and interviews with her, rabbi Sally Priesand, and rabbi Amy Eilberg. Sasso served as rabbi of the Manhattan Reconstructionist Congregation and, from 1977 until 2013, as rabbi along with her husband at the congregation Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis, making the Sassos the world's first couple to serve jointly as rabbis.
Sasso holds title to many firsts as a female rabbi. As one of the few women rabbinical students, Sasso naturally became a leader in defining women's changing roles within Judaism. While in school, Sandy Eisenberg married her classmate, Dennis Sasso, making them the first rabbinical couple in Jewish history. In the fall of 1969, Sasso joined the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College's second class of rabbinical students. During this period she studied at Gratz College. In her youth, she was very involved in her Philadelphia Reform congregation and began to consider entering the rabbinate at 16 years old, though she knew that such a role had never been open to women. Sasso was born in 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is also the author of many children's books on religious topics.īiography Youth and early life She was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia, on May 19, 1974.
She also writes a monthly column for the Indianapolis Star.Sandy Eisenberg Sasso (born Janu) is the first woman to have been ordained a rabbi in Reconstructionist Judaism. She has been president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, Gleaners Food Bank, and chair of the annual Indianapolis Spirit and Place Festival. She has served on numerous boards addressing issues of women’s equality, education, hunger, philanthropy, the humanities, and the arts. Sasso is the Director of Religion, Spirituality, and the Arts at Butler University and Christian Theological Seminary. As a pioneer in the primarily male rabbinate, she has also written and lectured on women and spirituality. The first woman to be ordained a rabbi in Reconstructionist Judaism, Sasso was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia, in 1974. Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso is the author of several nationally acclaimed children’s books, including For Heaven’s Sake, Noah’s Wife, and The Shema in the Mezuzah, which won the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for Best Illustrated Children’s Book.
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