Rabbi Amy Sapowith
Rabbi Amy Sapowith has a B.A. with honors from Dartmouth College, an M.A. in Comparative Literature from UCLA and is A.B.D in the same. Her doctoral program was in African American, Latin American and Jewish American literatures. Rabbi Sapowith received Rabbinic Ordination from HUC-JIR in Los Angeles in 2003. While at HUC-JIR Rabbi Sapowith twice received awards for Outstanding Service to a Small Congregation and for Excellence in Bible. During her studies she also served as rabbinic intern for Gateways Beit Teshuva, a Jewish residential home for people recovering from addiction. Prior to her graduate studies, Rabbi Sapowith worked as an environmentalist in Washington, D.C. and Quito, Ecuador.
Rabbi Sapowith joined the clergy staff of Temple Sinai in 2003. While there she led a congregational mitzvah trip to post-Katrina New Orleans and a peoplehood tour to Spain. She supervised the junior and senior youth group advisors and worked towards connecting Sinai youth with peers in Spain. She joined BCRC as our rabbi in 2015 and we look forward to many productive years together!
She is a bridge-builder between Jews of different stripes, between Jews in different parts of the world, with other local faith communities and with secular American society. Rabbi Sapowith encourages lifelong learning and has herself furthered her Jewish studies at the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem, the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, and the Drisha Institute in New York City.
Shalom! Peace!
Rabbi Amy Sapowith
CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: rabbi@bcrcva.org
Tue, January 22 2019
16 Sh'vat 5779
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Interfaith Event Featuring Visiting Scholar
Come for One Evening or Both
Please join in us on Friday for a communal Sabbath study, service, meal, and discussion, led by Rabbi Charnes, to experience the depth and breath of what Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel has rightly and most profoundly called our “sanctuary in time.”
Saturday’s program will feature a unique discussion between Rabbis (Rabbi Charnes and Rabbi Amy) and Pastors (from Community Lutheran Church, Sterling) on how Judaism and Christianity understand the nature of sin, forgiveness, and atonement; the function of law, faith, and grace; the notion of righteousness; what it means to be created in “the image of God;” and how these abstract doctrines and theologies can animate our sacred practices.
For more information and to RSVP: https://www.bcrcva.org/event/scholar-in-residence.html
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