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 works with her cohort of fellow first women rabbis from the Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox movements, speaking about their experiences.Sandy Eisenberg Sasso (born Janu) is the first woman to have been ordained a rabbi in Reconstructionist Judaism. As of 2014 Sasso is director of the Religion, Spirituality, and the Arts Initiative at Butler University in Indianapolis. She has also written resources for parents and a book on midrash. A prolific writer, Sasso has written a number of Jewish children’s books, winning Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Book of the Year Award for But God Remembered: Stories of Women from Creation to the Promised Land and A Prayer for the Earth in 19 respectively. She retired from the congregation in 2013.
Sasso served as rabbi of the Manhattan Reconstructionist Congregation before she and her husband became the joint leaders of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis in 1977.
In 1976 she became the first rabbi to become a mother after the birth of her first child, David. Sasso married fellow rabbinical student Dennis Sasso before graduating from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia in 1974, making her the first Reconstructionist woman rabbi and half of the first rabbinic couple. Sandy Eisenberg Sasso was the first woman rabbi ordained by the Reconstructionist movement, which was one of many firsts in her career.
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