In 1968 she graduated from Brooklyn College and moved to Boston, where she became involved with the newly founded Havurat Shalom, the community "often considered a flagship of the havurah movement.

In 1984 she joined B'not Esh, a Jewish feminist community, and early on, during one of their annual retreats, shared her first poems.

[5][6] In 1989, she went to Israel for a sabbatical, where she facilitated an all-female Israeli-Palestinian dialogue group on the West Bank, and demonstrated with Women in Black.

A revised edition was published in 2007 as A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart and the Jewish Tradition.

[9] The poem “Let my people go that we may serve You”, by Feld, was commissioned by the Women's Rabbinic Network in honor of Sally Priesand.