RABBI SARI LAUFER
Assistant Rabbi

Rabbi Sari Laufer was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles in May 2006.  A Wexner  Graduate Fellow, Rabbi Laufer was also named the first Sara and Simha Lainer Beit Midrash Scholar at HUC in Los Angeles.  Her work in the Beit Midrash, as well as on her capstone project—a look at gender roles and family dynamics in the Babylonian Talmud—led to several academic prizes in Talmud and rabbinic literature, as well as HUC-LA’s Outstanding Female Student Award. In addition to her classroom studies, Rabbi Laufer learned from her student pulpits (in Bainbridge Island, WA; South Lake Tahoe, CA; and Temple Judea in Tarzana, CA), from her time as an educator at Camp Hess-Kramer in Malibu, CA, and from her summer serving as a chaplain at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. Most recently, Rabbi Laufer was the rabbinic intern at the Board of Rabbis of Southern California, where she organized a mission to Gulfport, MS for Hurricane Katrina Relief.

Born and bred in New York City, Rabbi Laufer finds her way back home by way of Los Angeles, Jerusalem, Washington DC—where she was an Eisdendrath Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, and Evanston, IL—where she graduated cum laude from Northwestern University. Rabbi Laufer is excited to be back in New York, and thrilled to be joining the team at Rodeph Sholom.