Rabbi Sandy Sasso will speak for Women’s Equality Day
Rabbi Sandy Sasso, Rabbi Emerita of congregation Beth-El Zedeck of Indianapolis, who is also the author of nationally acclaimed children’s books, if the keynote speaker for the 16th annual Women’s Equality Day luncheon, Friday August 24, at the Old National Events Plaza.
The annual luncheon commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote in America.
The luncheon will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lunch will be served at noon.
Sasso was Rabbi of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck, Indianapolis from 1977 to 2013. She is now Director of the Religion, Spirituality and the Arts Initiative at Butler University and Christina Theological Seminary. Rabbi Sasso is active in the arts, civic and interfaith communities and has written and lectured on women and spirituality and the discovery of the religious imagination in children.
Rabbi Sasso is the author of the nationally acclaimed children’s books, God’s Paintbrush, In God’s Name, But God Remembered: Stories of Women From Creation to the Promised Land and A Prayer for the Earth Her newest book, Creation’s First light was published in 2013 and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Rabbi Sasso has been honored as one of the “Influential Women in Indiana” by the Indianapolis Business Journal. She is the recipient of the “Sagamore of the Wabash”, the highest civilian honor awarded by the Governor of the State of Indiana. Rabbi Sasso was the first woman ordained from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and her husband, Rabbi Dennis C. Sasso, are the first practicing rabbinical couple in world Jewish history. They are the parents of two children, David and Debbie.
Tickets for the event are $30 per person.
Table sponsor ships are available.
Tickets and table sponsorships can be purchase ONLINE.
Event Details:
Friday, Aug. 24, 2018
Old National Events Plaza
11:30-1:00 pm
(Lunch is served at noon)