Cornerstone 2026

Sara Beth Berman is an enthusiastic member of the FJC Cornerstone team, the Director of Youth and Family Education at Temple Shaaray Tefila in New York City, and an experiential education consultant. SBB is a writer, podcaster, and storyteller, spending her career working on curricular excellence, professional development, and programmatic initiatives. Her decades of work in Jewish nonprofit prepared Sara Beth to train people in all levels of their careers to learn, grow, teach, negotiate, self-advocate, make change, ask good questions, and make waves. She was a coach for the Gender Equity in Hiring Project and crafted an educational startup at The Jewish Education Project. She ran YESH: The Newish Jewish Professionals Institute & the Graduate Fellowship at UJA-Federation NY, served as the Nadiv Educator at URJ Camp Coleman and the Davis Academy in Atlanta, Georgia, and was the Associate Director of Storahtelling, a Jewish ritual theatre company. She has worked at an assortment of Jewish summer camps, and a number of synagogues around New York. Her first noncamp job was at Penguin, the publishing house. Sara Beth serves as a board member for University of Florida Hillel. She wrote a very whimsical book about a Hanukkah Llama. Sara Beth received her BS in Psychology from the University of Florida and her MA in Jewish Education from the Davidson School at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Sara Beth and her family live in Brooklyn, except for when they're in residence at URJ Crane Lake Camp.