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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