Sandy has served as executive director of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue since 2009.
She began her career at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Citizens Committee for New York City, working in programs that addressed the needs of elderly New Yorkers. At the time, she lived with Babette Deutsch, a well-known poet who became frail and homebound after retiring from teaching. These experiences opened her eyes to the challenges of isolation among the elderly, propelling her to spearhead the development of Project DOROT as its founding executive director. Under her leadership, DOROT became a model inter-generational community service organization, earning awards and broad recognition from UJA Federation of New York.
After earning her master’s from Columbia Business School, Sandy formed a consulting firm to help organizations develop and implement growth strategies. In this capacity, she consulted with the leadership of the North American Jewish community, traveled frequently to Israel and the Caribbean, and helped establish lasting programs of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and American Jewish World Service, among others. Sandy played a pivotal role in assisting historic preservation activists and long-standing synagogue members in rescuing and transforming the Eldridge Street Synagogue into a landmark site that educates diverse cultural communities about Jewish immigrant life on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Sandy currently serves as treasurer of the board of the Sara Chait Memorial Foundation, sits on the board of the Legacy Foundation at Mount Hebron Cemetery and Cedar Grove Cemetery, and serves on the advisory board of Larger Than Life, USA. She previously held leadership roles in UJA of Northern New Jersey as co-president of the Business and Professional Women’s Division and on the Board of Trustees Oversees Allocations Committee. As an active environmentalist, she chaired the Environmental Commission and served on the Tenafly Zoning Board of Adjustment, working to preserve open space in Tenafly, New Jersey. She and her family were members of three synagogues simultaneously, spanning a wide range of Jewish practice.
Sandy is married to Daniel Moss, a clinical psychologist in private practice. They have two adult children: Rosie, a working actor and Jewish educator in New York City, and Tobias, the rabbi at Or Chadasch, a Reform synagogue in Vienna, Austria.
