Education
She graduated from the London School of Economics in 1977 and was ordained in 1989.
She graduated from the London School of Economics in 1977 and was ordained in 1989.
Sarah (who took her middle name as her surname) and Rabbi Sheila Shulman were the first openly lesbian graduates of the Leo Baeck College. Sarah was also one of the first ten female rabbis ordained in Britain. Sarah worked as a full-time congregational rabbi for Buckhurst Hill Reform Synagogue, 1989-1994, as Director of Programmes for the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain and Deputy Director of the Sternberg Centre, 1994-1997, and as a freelance rabbi, including a part-time congregational appointment for the Leicester Progressive Jewish Congregation, 1998–2000.
She was appointed as the rabbi of Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue in 2000.
In 2012 she was included as one of The Power 50 in The Jewish Chronicle.