Sara Mason, one of Or Ami’s Rabbinic Interns, served previously as a Mishpacha Coordinator. Long connected to Or Ami (she is newly married to former Or Ami intern Josh Barkin), Sara revolutionized Mishpacha last year, bringing a new level of creativity and depth to our study of God, Belief and Judaism. Sara will lead our Shabbat morning minyan, expand our Alcohol and Drug Abuse Education and Prevention program, teach in Temple Teen Night, and lead Shabbat and High Holy Days.

Sara cannot tell you that she is from one place in particular, having lived for significant periods of time in Washington D.C, Buffalo, Chicago and Boston, but she can tell you how much she appreciates the sun in Los Angeles. Recently finishing earning her Master’s Degree in Jewish Education, Sara is currently in her fourth year of rabbinical school at Hebrew Union College.

Sara earned her Bachelors Degree from Brandeis University in Sociology and Judaic Studies. Previously, Sara participated in the prestigious DeLeT (Day school Leadership through Teaching) program. Teaching second grade at a Jewish Day School in Boston for DeLeT, Sara there discovered a passion for teaching in Jewish settings. The following year she began her rabbinical studies in Jerusalem.

Since entering HUC, Sara has served as a 6^th grade teaching intern at Temple Isaiah in Los Angeles, the Interim Rabbi at Beth Knesset BaMidbar in Lancaster, the Reform Movement Rabbinic Intern at UCLA Hillel, and the CIT director at URJ Camp Newman. She is looking forward to expanding her professional Jewish experience at Congregation Or Ami. Sara commented that “Or Ami is a special place where people come to not just to learn and to pray, but to learn and to pray together. I look forward to being able to lead congregants to experience the kind of creative, open kind of Judaism that Or Ami offers.”