Rebecca Yousefzadeh Sassouni is an attorney, mediator, ordained rabbi and Jewish life cycle officiant in private practice, and Of Counsel to a Family Law Firm on Long Island, New York.
Sassouni, also, is an elected Director to the County Bar Association, and, currently serves in her third term elected to a public school board of education on Long Island, and is immediate past president.
Sassouni is an officer and past president of SHAI, Sephardic Heritage Alliance, Inc. a nondenominational Persian Jewish not- for-profit organization.
Sassouni is a matriarchist. She feels enobled by and tethered to the fortitude of millenia of Persian Jewry-- Torah, family, tradition, humanity. Her writings have been published in various periodicals.
Views expressed on the TOI Blog are those of the author alone.
