Sally Gottesman

Sally Gottesman has long been involved in Jewish feminist activities. Perhaps since she was the first girl to have a Saturday morning bat-mitzvah at Temple Shomrei Emunah, a Conservative synagogue in Montclair, New Jersey in 1975. Leaping forward 10 years, in 1985 Sally became the first paid employee of the Israel Women’s Network in Jerusalem and in the later half of that decade she was the first New York/Tri-State Director of the New Israel Fund. Since that time, she graduated from the Yale School of Management and has spent the fifteen years as a management consultant to not-for-profit organizations, first for KPMG and now independently. Her clients have beem The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Hillel, Young Survival Coalition, and The Hebrew Free Loan Society. Sally serves as the Chair of Moving Traditions, a new organization that seeks to be the premier resource for those who are looking for inspiration and information to practice Judaism at key life moments. All Moving Traditions programs are informed by a consideration of gender, a respect for the diversity of meaningful Jewish practices, and the desire to make Judaism a force for good in people’s lives and in the world. Moving Traditions’ project Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! will be featured at over 200 institutions nationwide this fall. Sally also currently serves on the Boards of StorahTelling and American Jewish World Service and is a member of Achayot Or, an annual gathering of Jewish feminists.