Meet the Sarnas

Rabbi Yehuda and Michelle Sarna are the JLIC couple at New York University.

Yehuda Sarna currently serves as the rabbi at the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at New York University as well as the JLIC Educator. As a major in English Literature at Yeshiva University, Yehuda co-founded Eimatai, a leadership training program for high school students, Mimaamakim: Journal of Jewish Art, and Nachalah: The Yeshiva University Journal for the Study of Bible. While in rabbinical school at Yeshiva University, he worked under Rabbi Avi Weiss, renowned political activist and humanitarian, at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale.

Michelle Waldman Sarna is concurrently writing her dissertation in School Psychology at Fordham Graduate School of Education on emerging adulthood, religion, and emotional well-being.

Upon completing her BA in Psychology from Yeshiva University (1999), Michelle taught pre-school children with PDD at the Jewish Board of Family and Children Services Child Development Center and did coursework towards a M.A. in Bible at the Bernard Revel Graduate School (2000-2001). While at Fordham, Michelle received her M.S. in Preschool Psychology, Advanced Certificate in School Psychology and New York State Provisional Certification (2004).
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