Rabbi Sharon G. Forman was raised in Norfolk, Virginia in a rabbinic family. Prior to her ordination as a Reform rabbi by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1994 in New York, she earned a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Columbia Teachers College. She served as the director of education at Manhattan’s Temple Shaaray Tefila in the 1990’s before moving to Westchester, New York with her husband and children. She has published Honest Answers to Your Child’s Jewish Questions (URJ Press, 2006), a chapter on the connection between Judaism and Breastfeeding in Lisa Grushcow’s The Sacred Encounter (CCAR Press, 2014), and most recently The Baseball Haggadah: A Festival of Freedom and Springtime in 15 Innings (2015).
