The Abrahamic Movement, the global interfaith initiative working to unite Jews, Christians, and Muslims around their shared Abrahamic roots, has formally appointed Dr. Stacy Berrin, widely known by her Hebrew name Sarai, as Founder and Director of its newly established Institute of Education.

The announcement was made by Tom Wegner, Global Head, President, and Founder of the Abrahamic Movement, who described the appointment as a deliberate and long-considered step toward translating the movement’s founding vision into structured learning for the next generation.

Dr. Berrin arrives with a résumé that blends clinical training, classroom experience, and years of direct, on-the-ground interfaith work. She is a licensed psychologist and educator, and by her own description a lifelong learner and mother of a large blended family that spans Israel and the United States. Over the past two decades she has built bridges in settings that rarely intersect with one another: therapy rooms, school classrooms, and, notably, Israeli-Palestinian women’s dialogue circles, where opposing narratives are worked through face to face rather than at a distance.

Who Is Dr. Stacy Berrin (Sarai)?

Dr. Stacy Berrin — known widely within interfaith circles by her Hebrew name, Sarai — is a licensed psychologist, educator, and lifelong learner whose career has run parallel to her personal life spent bridging two worlds. The mother of a large blended family spanning Israel and the United States, she has spent more than twenty years working across therapy rooms, classrooms, and Israeli-Palestinian women’s dialogue circles, building trust between people who rarely get the chance to sit across from one another. That combination of clinical training, classroom instinct, and hard-won interfaith fluency is what the Abrahamic Movement cited in appointing her to found and direct its new Institute of Education.

Qualifications: Doctorate-level licensed psychologist (Psy.D. / Ph.D.) with clinical training in individual, family, and trauma-informed therapy; professional educator with classroom and curriculum-design experience; two decades of applied practice in cross-cultural and interfaith mediation, including facilitation of Israeli-Palestinian women’s dialogue circles; extensive lived experience navigating Jewish and interfaith family life across Israel and the United States.

“The God in me sees the God in you.” — Dr. Stacy Berrin (Sarai)

That line, drawn from what Wegner called her personal creed, has become something of a thesis statement for the role she now steps into. Berrin has said she may not always understand people whose views or traditions differ sharply from her own, but that this lack of understanding is never grounds for hatred, since she regards those on the other side of the divide as brother or sister rather than stranger or adversary.

About the Institute of Education

The Abrahamic Movement Institute of Education is the movement’s new academic and training arm, established to develop curricula, workshops, and dialogue programs grounded in the shared heritage of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Its stated goal is to move interfaith cooperation out of one-off events and into ongoing, structured education for students, educators, and community leaders.

Learn more about the wider initiative at Faith & Freedom News, or follow the movement’s leadership directly: Tom Wegner and Dr. Stacy Berrin.

In his announcement, Wegner framed the appointment not as a symbolic gesture but as the start of substantive work. He said Berrin’s combination of professional expertise, lived interfaith experience, and personal alignment with the movement’s mission made her appointment a natural and, in his words, overdue step in building out the organization’s educational capacity.

“Welcome aboard, Sarai,” Wegner wrote. “The real work begins now.”

For an organization built on the premise that Jews, Christians, and Muslims share a common Abrahamic inheritance worth teaching rather than merely invoking, the launch of a dedicated Institute of Education, under a director whose own family and career already straddle those same lines, marks a shift from proclamation to practice.