Sassoon Brown (they/them) - Rabbinic Intern

Sassoon Brown is a senior rabbinical student at JTS and Wexner Graduate Fellow. Sass is passionate about learning and teaching Torah gems and Jewish texts central to their Mizrahi heritage. They have a Bachelor’s of Communication Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MFA in Creative Writing from North Carolina State University. Sass was head of programming for many summers at Camp JCC Raleigh. They have held several rabbinic student fellowships and internships. Sass was a Slifka-Nadich Fellow teaching text-based curriculum to Trans Jewish students, interned at United Synagogue Youth as a rabbinic resource, and student rabbi at Emanuel Synagogue of West Hartford and student rabbi Ft. Tryon Jewish Center. Sass has worked with teens, college students, and synagogues of multiple denominations. Sass is passionate about words, tunes, rituals, and leading with creativity. They are a published writer with a book of poems out, The Shortest Skirt in Shul, published by Ben Yehuda Press.