#68 Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso Writes and Shares Beautiful Children Stories That Truly Change the World
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso served as Senior Rabbi of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck, Indianapolis, Indiana from 1977-2013. She is currently the director of the Religion, Spirituality and the Arts Initiative at IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute. Dr. Sasso received her B.A. and M.A. from Temple University. She was the first women ordained from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1974 and received her Doctor of Ministry from CTS in 1996.
Sasso is the author of two books for adults and many nationally acclaimed children’s books. She is a contributor to many publications on children’s spirituality including the International Journal of Children’s Spirituality and is a co-editor of Nurturing Children and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World’s Religions, 2006. She was co-editor with Michael Shire of the CCAR Journal on Spiritual Teaching and Transformation, 2014. Her interview with Krista Tippet on “The Spirituality of Parenting” has been heard around the world. She has been a keynote speaker at the International Conference on the Spiritual Life of Children. In 2004 she received the Helen Keating Ott Award for Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Literature and in 2019 she was honored with an Indiana Author’s Award. Her children’s book, The Shemah in the Mezuzah won the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for Best Illustrated Children’s Book. The Marvelous Mustard Seed was a Junior Library Guild Selection in 2018.
Active in the civic life of her community, co-founder of Women4Change Indiana in 2016, she is the recipient of the highest civilian award in the State of Indiana (Sagamore of the Wabash) and in 2014, she was honored with the Heritage Keeper’s Award from the Indiana State Museum.
“Children can offer a new perspective. They have an extraordinary sense of wonder and surprise that as we get older we lose.”
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