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Sara
Newman
Student Rabbi
Har Tikvah Congregation |
Student Rabbi Sara Newman is a fourth-year
rabbinical student at the Hebrew Union College -
Jewish Institute of
Religion in New York City.
Sara was raised outside of Annapolis,
Maryland.
She earned a B.A. in Psychology from the
University of Maryland.
At school she was an active member of the
Hillel and leader of the UMD chapter of Kesher, the Reform Jewish
college organization.
Sara also volunteered as a counselor on the
Help Center crisis intervention hotline and helped to organize the
Common Ground Project, a Jewish-Muslim/Arab dialogue group.
During college she taught religious school
at Temple Solel in Bowie, MD, the synagogue where she grew up and where
her family still attends.
After graduation, Sara moved to Israel
to study Jewish text at Pardes, a liberal yeshiva in Jerusalem.
She began her studies at HUC-JIR in
Jerusalem in 2006, where she also served as the chair of the Israel
Connection Committee.
From Israel, Sara moved to Park Slope,
Brooklyn, where she lives today.
Sara teaches Hebrew at the Brooklyn Heights
synagogue.
Last year, she served monthly as the student
rabbi at Temple Beth HaShalom in Williamsport, PA.
To stay connected to her local community,
Sara volunteers at the HUC-JIR soup kitchen and helps to run Altshul, a
minyan that meets on Shabbat in her neighborhood.
Sara also enjoys biking, vegetarian cooking,
and seeing the sights in New York.
Sara looks forward to being a part of
the warm and vibrant Har Tikvah Congregation.
Please feel free to contact her by email, at
saranewmie@hotmail.com.
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