Sarah Berman is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, expecting to graduate in 2020. She comes to rabbinical studies after a career in the arts. For more than a decade, Sarah researched the broad permanent collections of the Seattle Art Museum, specializing in provenance (the history of ownership and meaning of a work of art). She also curated the permanent collections of Ancient Mediterranean and Islamic Art, planning installations, acquiring new objects, and speaking and writing for wide audiences. While in Seattle, she also developed and taught courses for children, teens, and adults in Jewish communal settings. Sarah earned her MA and BA in archaeology and art from Brown University. She was a 2015-16 T’ruah Israel Fellow, and is the recipient of the Liesl Blockstein scholarship (Temple Beth El, Madison, WI) and the Seymour Siegel Scholarship (fellowship of the UJA-Federation of New York). She is also proud to serve as a Tisch fellow at HUC-JIR, starting in fall 2017.
