Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman is a third-year student at Yeshivat Maharat. She is currently an intern at the Abraham Joshua Heschel School, teaching Judaic Studies to middle-school students, and at Ohr Torah Stone’s Jewish Learning Center of New York, teaching fundamentals of Judaism and halakha to potential converts with Rabbi David Kalb. Sarah previously taught high school students at the Genesis Program at Brandeis University and the Tikvah Fund. Sarah also served as the Maharat Intern at Beth Sholom Talmud Torah in Potomac, MD, presenting divrei Torah and teaching classes. She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and credits a year spent at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem for her love of beit midrash learning. Sarah lives in Manhattan with her husband and can be found baking challah, browsing used bookstores, and wrestling with Jewish texts.