Rabba Rachel Kohl Finegold

Rachel Kohl Finegold is the Associate Rabba of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Montreal, and the first Orthodox woman to serve as synagogue clergy in Canada. She is the president of the Montreal Board of Rabbis, a vice president of the International Rabbinic Fellowship, and host of the podcast "Verses - Where Broadway and Torah Meet".

Rabba Finegold is a graduate of the Drisha Scholars Circle in New York, and received her B.A. in Religion from Boston University. She completed the Clergy Leadership Incubator (CLI), a fellowship to help rabbis become transformative change agents in the communities that they serve, and now serves as a mentor for the program. She previously served as a member of the clergy of Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel Congregation in Chicago,

Rabba Finegold has been the driving force behind many new initiatives to engage young families and young professionals in synagogue life. She lives in Montreal with her husband, Rabbi Avi Finegold, and their three daughters.