Rabbi Shoshanah Conover

Rabbi Conover grew up in St. Louis, Missouri at Congregation Shaare Emeth and earned a B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After working as a producer of On-Air Promotions for PBS-Wisconsin, her love of the Jewish people and learning Jewish texts as well as a strong commitment to social justice led her to rabbinical school. During her time at HUC-JIR, Rabbi Conover received several prizes including the Rabbi Jason Huebsch Memorial Prize for Outstanding Work in Community Service, The Stuart and Antoinette Matlins Prize in Liturgy and The Rabbi Malcolm Stern Memorial Prize (awarded for contributing the most to the HUC-JIR New York Campus).

Prior to joining the Temple Sholom staff in 2007, Rabbi Conover served as Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Schaarai Zedek in Tampa, Florida for three years. Her work encompassed a wide-range of rabbinic responsibilities including officiating at life cycle events, teaching, preaching and counseling as well as overseeing the synagogue's Youth Program, Young Adult Program, Social Justice and Advocacy Program, and Caring Community.

Rabbi Conover's programmatic responsibilities at Temple Sholom include serving as a rabbinic liaison to our Adult Education Program and WRJ and overseeing our Outreach programming. Rabbi Conover also serves on the Social Justice Committee of the Women's Rabbinic Network. She lives in Chicago with her husband Damien.

To contact Rabbi Shoshanah Conover, you may call Nancy Henig, Executive Assistant, at 773-435-1531.
Email Rabbi Conover: rabbiconover@sholomchicago.org